EPA Pending Boundaries (DWER-103)

A key role of the EPA is to provide Government with advice on the environmental acceptability of development proposals and statutory planning schemes. Development proposals include proposals for mining, industry as well as infrastructure such as ports, railways and pipelines. Planning schemes include both statutory planning schemes and their amendments.

This dataset is a spatial representation of proposals referred to the EPA under Part IV of the Environmental Protection Act 1986. Part IV of the act provides the legislative framework for the assessment of environmental impacts.

The boundaries in this dataset serve as the administrative record of where proposals are spatially assessed against other environmental data of interest. Note that:

a) not all proposals contain a spatial component; if not, no boundary is recorded

b) the accuracy of boundaries is dependent on the quality of data provided by the proponent.

This is an intermediate dataset stores pending EPA referral boundaries, and is used for quality assurance purposes prior to updating the EPA Referred Significant Proposals and EPA Referred Schemes datasets.