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an environmental assessment of the action must be carried out under the EPBC Act. The Minister will decide the assessment approach for the action from the range of assessment methods provided for under the EPBC Act. These range from the provision of preliminary information through to a full public inquiry (refer to Part 7 of the Act for further information on assessment methods).

   The Minister considers the information provided through the selected assessment approach and determines if the action can go ahead and under what circumstances. The Minister can consider both detrimental environmental impacts as well as the social and economic impact of the project at this stage. At the end of this process the Minister can:

        1. approve the action;

      2.              approve the action with conditions; or

      3.              not approve the action, if the environmental impacts cannot be appropriately managed.

        The AWM Heritage Strategy and Heritage Register

   The Memorial is obliged, under Section 341ZA of the EPBC Act, to prepare a 'heritage strategy' and heritage register to protect and conserve the heritage values of places under its ownership and control. The AWM Heritage Strategy has been updated and has been reviewed by both the Department responsible for the EPBC Act and the Australian Heritage Council. The final document was submitted by the Memorial to the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment in September 2019. The AWM Heritage Strategy establishes the Memorial's commitment to the ongoing heritage management of the AWM in accordance with the legislative requirements. It also commits the Memorial to ensuring heritage

 values are considered in forward planning processes, that training in heritage management is provided to staff, and that the heritage values of places it owns and controls are interpreted to the public.

 The AWM 'Heritage Register' was updated in August 2020 with the current details of the identified places with Commonwealth Heritage values owned and managed by the Memorial (including the Mitchell Precinct).

    5.2.3  Statutory Listings

      National Heritage Values—Protected Matter under the EPBC Act

 As noted above, the EPBC Act recognises a range of protected matters that are of national environmental significance under the Act's assessment and approval provisions, referred to as MNES. The MNES that applies to the Memorial, and the AWM, is its National Heritage values as a National Heritage place. A person must not take an action that has, will have, or is likely to have, a significant impact on a MNES without approval from the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment.

      Commonwealth Heritage Place—Other Matters Protected by the EPBC Act

 The CHL recognises places of Commonwealth Heritage value that are owned or controlled by the Commonwealth Government. The AWM is entered in the CHL and is also within the Commonwealth Heritage listing of