Part 4 sets management goals for waters. Part 5 details management of activities including decision making, releases to land, water and groundwaters, stormwater, artificial wetlands, biological controls, acid sulfate soils, facilities for ship waste, and monitoring. Part 7 provides for the development and implementation of environmental plans for water including plans for managing stormwater, sewage, trade waste, water conservation and for protection of surface and groundwaters. Part 8 covers some administrative functions including a strategy to educate and inform about water quality management issues and ambient monitoring. Part 9 provides for an assessment of policy performance.
Schedules list environmental values and objectives for Trinity Inlet waters and definitions.
This has the purpose of achieving the object of the Environmental Protection Act 1994 in relation to Queensland's acoustic environment. Part 3 covers environmental management decisions including matters for consideration and evaluation, planning levels, requirements for a draft environmental management program, and conditions for a noise management plan. Part 4 details product labelling requirements. Part 5 covers noise assessment including prescribed instruments and procedures. Part 6 details programs to be undertaken to protect environmental values, to inform and involve the community and users, and to review the policy.