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Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Environment) Regulations 2023

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated: 6 July 2023

  David Hurley
  Governor‑General

By His Excellency's Command

Madeleine King
Minister for Resources

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Object
5 Definitions
Part 2—Offshore project proposals
6 Submission of offshore project proposal
7 Contents of offshore project proposal
8 Further information
9 Suitability of offshore project proposal for publication
10 NOPSEMA must give proponent copies of comments
11 Resubmission of offshore project proposal after period for public comment
12 Further information on resubmitted proposal
13 Decision on resubmitted proposal
14 Withdrawal of offshore project proposal
15 Use of the offshore project proposal system for other activities
Part 3—Financial assurance
16 Demonstration of financial assurance prior condition for acceptance of environment plan
Part 4—Environment plans
Division 1—Requirement for environment plan
17 Accepted environment plan required for activity
18 Operations must comply with accepted environment plan
19 Operations must not continue if new or increased environmental risk identified
Division 2—Contents of environment plan
20 Purpose of this Division
21 Environmental assessment
22 Implementation strategy for environment plan
23 Details of titleholder and nominated liaison
24 Other information in environment plan
Division 3—Consultation in preparing environment plan
25 Consultation with relevant authorities, persons and organisations etc
Division 4—Submission and acceptance of environment plan
26 Submission of environment plan
27 Checking completeness of submitted environment plan
28 Publishing environment plan and associated information
29 Action on incomplete environment plan
30 Public comments on seismic or exploratory drilling environment plan
31 Seismic or exploratory drilling environment plan to be resubmitted if significantly modified
32 Further information
33 Making decision on submitted environment plan
34 Criteria for acceptance of environment plan
35 Notice of decision on environment plan, publication of accepted plan and submission and publication of summary
36 When environment plan is in force
37 Withdrawal of environment plan before decision
Division 5—Revision of environment plan
38 Revision to include new activity
39 Revision because of other change, or proposed change, of circumstances or operations
40 Revision on request by NOPSEMA
41 Revision at the end of each 5 years
42 Existing environment plan continues in force if revised plan not accepted
Division 6—Withdrawing acceptance of environment plan
43 Withdrawing acceptance of environment plan
44 Steps to be taken before withdrawing acceptance
45 Withdrawal of acceptance not affected by other provisions
Division 7—End of environment plan
46 Plan ends when titleholder notifies completion
Part 5—Incidents, reports and records
47 Notifying reportable incidents
48 Written report of reportable incidents
49 Additional written