Conduct Exploration Activities and received approval for your activities? 3 Have any additional approvals or consents been granted since the grant or renewal of your exploration licence? Yes No N/A Comment: 4 Have you checked that you are complying with the conditions of those approvals or consents? Yes No N/A Comment: Part 4: Exploration code of practice: rehabilitation (Note: Guidance is provided in Appendix 1, 2 and 3 of the code to assist explorers with complying with the code requirements (e.g. what to address in a risk assessment, what a rehabilitation program looks like, rehabilitation objectives and completion criteria that can be adopted, contents of a rehabilitation management plan etc) 4.1 Risk assessment 1 Have you undertaken a rehabilitation risk assessment to evaluate the of potential threats and opportunities associated with rehabilitating disturbed areas to a condition that can support the intended final land use(s)? Yes No N/A Comment: 2 Do you regularly review and update the rehabilitation risk assessment as required to reflect changes in activities or risks to rehabilitation outcomes? Yes No N/A Comment: 3 Is your risk assessment (and any review) documented and maintained? Yes No N/A Comment: 4.2 Rehabilitation objectives and completion criteria 4 If you are undertaking assessable prospecting activities, have you developed specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and rehabilitation objectives and Yes No N/A Comment:
3 Do the procedures include minimising or preventing the use of unsealed roads and tracks during wet weather? Yes No N/A Comment: 4 Are appropriate design standards used for any new roads or tracks? Yes No N/A Comment: 5 Have any new roads or tracks been adequately constructed, including appropriate drainage and erosion and sediment control? Yes No N/A Comment: 6 Are roads and tracks maintained in a serviceable condition? Yes No N/A Comment: 7 Has all damage to existing roads and tracks resulting from exploration activities been repaired? Yes No N/A Comment: 8 Are landowners consulted prior to establishing any new roads or tracks? Yes No N/A Comment: 9 Are records maintained of road and track construction and maintenance (including before and after photographs)? Yes No N/A Comment: 5.9 Weeds, pest animals and diseases 1 Are procedures and processes in place to prevent the introduction and spread of weeds, pest animals and animal and plant diseases? Yes No N/A Comment: 2 Have staff been trained in the relevant procedures and processes (for example, through inductions or other means)? Yes No N/A Comment: 3 Are there any significant weed infestations on site? Yes No N/A Comment:
iii Is the storage operated within its design parameters and design life? Yes No N/A Comment: iv Does the storage include a secondary containment if it has the capacity to more than five cubic metres (m3) of produced water? Yes No N/A Comment: v Does the storage have the capability to detect of produced water through the primary containment? Yes No N/A Comment: vi Is design documentation available to confirm the design details? Yes No N/A Comment: 2 Are ponds being used to store produced water? Yes No N/A Comment: i Were the ponds designed and constructed in accordance with a construction quality assurance program? Yes No N/A Comment: ii Are the ponds located and designed to be structurally stable in all events up to and including the probable maximum flood? Yes No N/A Comment: iii Are the ponds located in an area that will not increase flood risk to surrounding land? Yes No N/A Comment: iv Do the ponds maintain an environmental containment freeboard capable of containing inflow from events up to and including a 1 in 100-year annual exceedance probability (AEP) 72-hour rainfall event, without discharge, unless the operation of a freeboard for that pond is authorised by an Environmental Protection Licence (EPL)? Yes No N/A Comment: v Is the spillway or overflow level above the one in 100 year average recurrence interval flood level? Yes No N/A Comment: vi Are construction records available to verify the construction details? Yes No N/A Comment:
5 Does the TARP set out the key contact details for: i Persons responsible for activating the TARP? Yes No N/A Comment: ii Persons authorised to notify relevant authorities in the of an incident that requires activation of the TARP? Yes No N/A Comment: iii Persons responsible for managing the response to an incident that requires activation of the TARP? Yes No N/A Comment: iv Each authority to be notified in the event of an incident? Yes No N/A Comment: 6 Does the TARP set out the details of the mechanisms for reporting and providing updates to the Secretary for responses triggered by the TARP? Yes No N/A Comment: 7 Are records maintained for every time the TARP has been activated, including details of notification to relevant authorities? Yes No N/A Comment: 6.4 Review of the plan 1 Has the produced water management plan been reviewed and updated to reflect current operations and requirements: i In accordance with any direction from the Minister or the NSW Environment Protection Authority? Yes No N/A Comment: ii If changes to the way in which produced water is managed under the relevant authority or prospecting title requires additional assessment under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979? Yes No N/A Comment:
iii Before making any significant change to the design or operation of the produced water storage or transfer facility? Yes No N/A Comment: iv In the that the TARP is activated in accordance with clause 3.2 of the APGA Code of Practice for Upstream Polyethylene Gathering Networks in the Coal Seam Gas Industry.? Yes No N/A Comment: v Otherwise at intervals of no longer than one year, to reflect any developments in the management of produced water? Yes No N/A Comment: 2 Has an updated copy of the produced water management plan been provided to the department: Yes No N/A Comment: i If there is a significant change to the design or operation of the produced water storage or transfer facility, no later than 14 days prior to commencing operation of the changed facility? Yes No N/A Comment: ii If the produced management plan is revised for any other reason, no later than 14 days after that revision is complete? Yes No N/A Comment: Part 7: Mining Act and Mining Regulation The Mining Act 1992 and the Mining Regulation 2016 also impose obligations on titleholders which must be complied with. This section outlines these requirements. Mining Act Section 30 – Exempted 1 Are there any exempted areas within your exploration area? Yes No N/A Comment: 2 Are you undertaking activities in these exempted areas? Yes No N/A Comment: i If you are conducting exploration activities in exempted areas, have you sought the consent of the Minister? Yes No N/A Comment:
ii Was the consent subject to any conditions? Yes No N/A Comment: iii Have you complied with those conditions? Yes No N/A Comment: Mining Act Section 31 – Dwelling houses, gardens and significant improvements 1 Are you undertaking any exploration activities: i Within 200 metres of a dwelling house? Yes No N/A Comment: ii Within 50 metres of any garden? Yes No N/A Comment: iii On land containing any significant improvement (not related to ancillary mining activities)? Yes No N/A Comment: 2 If yes to any part of question 1, have you obtained the written consent of owner? Yes No N/A Comment: 3 Where that consent includes specific requirements, have those requirements been met? Yes No N/A Comment: Mining Act Section 140 – Prospecting to be carried out in accordance with access arrangements 1 Have you identified all landowners on whose land your exploration activities will be undertaken? Yes No N/A Comment: 2 Do you have written access agreements in place with all landowners on whose land Yes No N/A Comment:
your exploration activities will be undertaken? 3 Where those agreements include specific conditions of access, have you complied with those conditions? Yes No N/A Comment: Mining Act Section 163C - Reports You must prepare and lodge reports of all operations carried out under the authorisation. Clauses 59, 60, 61 and 63 of the Mining Regulation contain specific requirements for reports, maps, plans and data. 1 Have you prepared and submitted annual reports for your exploration licence? Yes No N/A Comment: 2 If you have relinquished parts of your licence area, have you prepared and submitted partial relinquishment reports? Yes No N/A Comment: 3 If you are cancelling or not renewing your exploration licence, have you prepared and submitted a final report? Yes No N/A Comment: 4 Have you submitted all required maps, plans and data in the required formats? Yes No N/A Comment: Mining Act Section 163D – Record-keeping You must keep records about your authorisation: in a legible form, or in a form that can readily be reduced to a legible form for production to any inspector, and for four following the expiry or termination of your authorisation. Note: Please refer to other parts of this checklist to determine the type of records which need to be maintained. 1 Do you have systems and processes in place to capture and maintain records required under this licence and all relevant codes of practice? (for example, inspection Yes No N/A Comment:
6 Are changes to compliance requirements and controls communicated to operational personnel (for example, is there a toolbox talk process or similar)? Yes No N/A Comment: 7 Are effective mechanisms in place for internal communication? Yes No N/A Comment: 8 Do you evaluate your compliance with a view to continual improvement of performance? Yes No N/A Comment: 8.2 Risk identification and assessment 1 Have you undertaken any process-mapping and risk assessments to identify key issues for your operations? Yes No N/A Comment: 2 Where key issues are identified, have appropriate controls been put in place to manage those risks? Yes No N/A Comment: 3 Does the risk identification and assessment address operational and environmental risks as well as safety risks? Yes No N/A Comment: 4 Is the risk assessment regularly reviewed and updated as necessary? Yes No N/A Comment: 8.3 Managing your subcontractors 1 Do you use any subcontracted services (for example, drillers, trucking or other services)? Yes No N/A Comment: 2 Do you communicate any relevant key issues and controls to your subcontractors (for example, performance specifications, induction processes, or other issues and controls)? Yes No N/A Comment: