Environmentalauthority

Fees and charges

2013-14

Fees and charges that do not attract GST are noted with an asterisk(*).
All other fees and charges are inclusive of GST (to calculate the GST component divide the fee by eleven).

Environmentally Relevant Activity (ERA)

Application types / Application fee
(each application)
Environmentalauthority for an ERA / *$551
plusamount equal to the renewal fee for the activity
Notes
Amalgamated Environmental Authority - where an amalgamated application is made, the application fee is the highest fee applicable to any of the individual ERAs.

Renewal fees

Note: holders of environmental authorities can apply from the first expiry date of registration for a discount on registration renewal fees of 50% for reduced risk due to best practice environmental performance.

Environmentally Relevant Activity (ERA) type / Renewal fee
(each year)
ERA 6 - asphalt manufacturing
(a) more than 1,000 tonnes /
*$6,400
ERA 12 - plastic manufacturing
(a) more than 50 tonnes per year of plastic product (other than plastic product below)
(b) Five tonnes or more per year of foam, composite plastics or rigid fibre-reinforced plastics /
*$5,600
*$10,800
ERA 19 - metal forming
Hot forming 10,000 tonnes or more per year /
*$551
ERA 20 - metal recovery
Commercially operating a scrap metal yard or dismantling automotive or mechanical equipment, including debonding brake or clutch components:
(a) less than 100 tonnes / day
(b) more than 100 tonnes / day or more than 10,000 tonnes / year without a fragmentiser /
*$551
*$3,800
ERA 38 - surface coating
(a) up to 100 tonnes (anodising, electroplating, enamelling or galvanizing) /
*$2,000
ERA 49 - boat maintaining or repair facility
Operating, on a commercial basis, a boat maintenance or repair facility for maintaining or repairing hulls, superstructure or mechanical components of boats or seaplanes /
*$3,400
ERA 61 - waste incineration and thermal treatment
Operating a facility for incinerating or thermally treating waste.
1) waste vegetation, clean paper or cardboard /
*$551
Copy of registration - ERA / Fee
Copy of registration / *$99

OtherEnvironmental ProtectionAct fees and charges

Type / Fee
Consider draft transitional environmental program (TEP) / *$304
(each application)
Monitoring Transitional Environmental Program:
Additional inspection fee for the administering consideration of a draft environmental management program and monitoring of such programs and other programs e.g. environmental protection orders, environmental evaluations
(a) during working hours (7am to 6pm, Monday to Friday)
(b) out of working hours / *$106 (each hour)
*$149 (each hour) (minimum charge three hours)

Waste dumping infringements

Asof 24 May 2013, the value of a penalty unit is equal to *$110. (e.g. 2 penalty units is a *$220 fine)

Waste dumping infringements / On the spot
penalty
General littering / 2 penalty units
Littering from a vehicle (registered to an individual) / 2 penalty units
Littering from a vehicle (registered to a company / organisation) / 10penalty units
Dangerouslittering / 4penalty units
Quantities of waste greater than 200 litres but less than 2500 litres
(volume exceeding a wheelie bin) / 16penalty units
Quantities of waste greater than 2500 litres
(individual) / 20 penalty units