Regulation impact statement

96, 20/03/2015, Robert Nolan, Not provided

97, 19/03/2015, Nevell Hungerford, Not provided

98, 19/03/2015, Judy Baghurst, Not provided

99, 13/04/2015, Dan Staley, Whitsunday Regional Council

1^ The development of this report included consultations with relevant port authorities.

2^ website

3^ Ministerial media release 10 November 2014 ‘We're already putting an end to dumping in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park’

4^ Marine Park Authority Board Report Meeting 235

5^ Ministerial media release 24 January 2015 ‘Orders given to ban dumping of capital dredge material in Marine Park’

6^ Ministerial media release 16 March 2015 ‘Banning capital dredge disposal in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park once and for all’

7^ Joint media release 21 March 2015 Long-Term Sustainability Plan for Australia's Iconic Great Barrier Reef

8^ Those Queensland commitments include the following: Protect greenfield areas by restricting new port development in and adjoining the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area to within current port limits. restrict capital dredging for the development of new or expansion of existing port facilities to within the regulated port limits of Gladstone, Hay Point/Mackay, Abbot Point and Townsville; ensure that any new development inside these port limits is also consistent with the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act, the Queensland Marine Parks Act, their regulations and zoning plans; prohibit the sea-based disposal of material into the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area generated by port-related capital dredging.; mandate the beneficial reuse of port-related capital dredge spoil, such as land reclamation in port development areas, or disposal on land where it is environmentally safe to do so.; require all proponents of new dredging works to demonstrate their project is commercially viable; support on-land disposal or land reclamation for capital dredge material at Abbot Point.

9^ National Assessment Guidelines for Dredging (2009).

10^ Over time, sand and mud builds in shipping channels, potentially creating risks to ships and environmental hazards in the event of accidents. Maintenance dredging removes this material to ensure the channels can continue to be safely used.

11^ Maintenance dredging is necessary to ensures vessels have safe and reliable access to our ports. This practice has been occurring at long-established ports for more than a century, meaning a longer-term approach is required to reduce disposal in the Marine Park.

12^ Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority 2014, Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2014, GBRMPA, Townsville.

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority 2014, Great Barrier Reef Region Strategic Assessment Report, GBRMPA, Townsville.

13^ The renewed suspension of a precipitated sediment, such as stirring up settled mud at the bottom of a body of water.

14^ A water column is a conceptual column of water from the surface of a sea to the bottom sediments.

15^ Turbidity is a measure of water clarity - how much the material suspended in water decreases the passage of light through the water. Suspended material includes soil particles (clay, silt and sand), algae, plankton, microbes and other substances.

16^ Dredging also causes the suspension of sediment in the water column. The amount of material suspended depends on the local characteristic of the disposal site.

17^ website

18^ website

19^ website

20^ website

21^ website

22^ Department of Environment and Heritage Protection 2014, Great Barrier Reef: Reef facts, Brisbane.

23^ GBRMPA, 2014, Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2014, Townsville.

24^ Capital dredge spoil is the result of capital dredging activities. The term capital dredging is used to refer to dredging that is undertaken to create, lengthen, widen or deepen channels, berth areas, swing basins, marinas and harbour areas.

25^ page 2.

26^ Refer to Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2014

27^ The proposal did not include the disposal of maintenance dredge spoil material because GBRMPA believes it is best dealt with through other actions, including the establishment of a maintenance dredging framework as committed to in the Reef 205 0Long-Term Sustainability Plan.

28^ Government Statistician 2013, Queensland regional profile: GBR LGAs Region, Queensland Treasury and Trade, Brisbane.

29^ Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority 2014, Great Barrier Reef Region Program Report, GBRMPA, Townsville.

30^ UNESCO 2012, Mission Report Great Barrier Reef, UNESCO, Paris, France.

31^ Great Barrier Reef region strategic assessment: supplementary report, GBRMPA, Townsville.

32^ Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan Consultation Report 2015

33^ Relevant excerpts Tourism Reef Advisory Committee Communique meeting 14-15 October 2014

34^ TRAC membership for 2014-2017

35^ Relevant excerpts from the minutes of the LMAC Chairs Meeting October 2014

36^ Ministerial media release 16 March 2015 ‘Banning capital dredge disposal in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park once and for all’

37^ GBRMPA media statement

38^ pages 65-70

39^ website

40^ Community benefits include: income, employment, understanding and appreciation, enjoyment, access to Reef resources, personal connection, health benefits and aesthetics.

41^ Deloitte Access Economics 2013, Economic contribution of the Great Barrier Reef, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville

42^ Deloitte Access Economics 2013, Economic contribution of the Great Barrier Reef, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville

43^ Tobin, R.C., Beggs, K., Sutton, S.G. and Penny, A. 2010, Baseline socio-economic data for Queensland east-coast inshore and rocky reef fishery stakeholders. Part D: Seafood consumers, Technical Report No. 8, Fishing and Fisheries Research Centre, James Cook University, Townsville.

44^ Deloitte Access Economics 2013, Economic contribution of the Great Barrier Reef, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville

45^ These are Government Business Enterprises, which are treated as businesses under the Framework.

46^ Although the Marine Park permit allowed for disposal of up to three million cubic metres, the Queensland Government had previously revised that figure down, statement

47^ Although the application received by GBRMPA was for up to five million cubic metres, the draft Environmental Impact Statement identified total volume would be 4.4 million. http://www.portsnorth.com.au/projects/cairnsshippingdevlproj.php

48^ Dudgeon Point is located within the Hay Point port development area. The Port of Hay Point is one of the four main ports within the Great Barrier Reef Region. Dudgeon Point is the proposed site for separate, additional port infrastructure within this same port development area.

49^ statement

50^ statement

51^ website

52^ statement

53^ website

54^ website

55^ website

56^ website

57^ Recent media also suggests that no disposal will occur in the World Heritage Area, statement

58^ Costs attributable to distance were sourced from Abbot Point, Terminal 0, Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 Capital Dredging Public Environment Report (EPBC 2011/6213/GBRMPA G34897.1) Appendix E GHD 2012, Dredged Material Relocation and Reuse Options Assessment Report pg 35 -38.

59^ GBRMPA has used the best available information at the time this Regulation Impact Statement was written to inform costs associated with this regulation.

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