Proposals Assessed by the EPA

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​Proposals open for public comment also appear on the Public Consultations​ page.

Click here for an explanation of the Stages of Assessment​​

See the headings below for more information about each stage of the EPA assessment process. ​

Assessmen​​​t Commenced

At this stage, development proposals have been accepted for assessment by the EPA. The statutory process has started, but detailed documentation is not yet ready to be released for public comment.

Public Comment Invited

The assessment process includes an opportunity for the public to comment on proposed developments. This takes the form of a written submission ('representation'). Submissions are invited from the public for a set period of 14, 28 or 42 days, depending on the 'class of assessment' (2A, 2B or 2C). These timeframes are prescribed under section 27G(2) of the EMPC Act.

​​​Draft 2C Guidelines

The EPA issues the proponent of every proposed development with guidelines for preparing an EER or EIS. For class 2C proposals, which are often large, complex or likely to generate a high level of public interest, these guidelines are made available for public comment at the draft stage. The proposal will re-enter the 'Public Comment Invited' stage once a satisfactory Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is received. For 2A and 2B proposals, there is no public comment period for draft guidelines.

​EER or EIS (Case for Assessment)

The statutory period of public comment opens once a proponent has submitted comprehensive documentation, which takes the form of an Environmental Effects Report (EER) or an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The EER or EIS is published on the proposal page, allowing for informed consideration by the community. ​

Note: Before 2019, the term “Development Proposal and Environmental Management Plan" (DPEMP) was used instead of EIS. Proposals that started the assessment process before 2019 will still use the term DPEMP. ​

Please see the Guide for Preparing a Public Submission​ page for information about making an effective submission.

Public Comment​ Closed

Once the public comment period ends, each proposal will move to this stage. 

Where public comment was received on draft guidelines, the guidelines may be modified to address issues raised.  The proposal will re-enter the 'Public Comment Invited' stage once a satisfactory Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is received.

Where public comment was received on an EER or EIS, the proponent may be required to prepare a supplement to address issues that were raised. The supplement will be added to the proposal page, but there will not be a further period for public comment. 

Once the EPA Board has made its final determination, the Environmental Assessment Report will be added to the proposal page, and it will move to 'Assessment Complete'.

Assessment Complete

Once an assessment is completed, the EER/EIS, Environmental Assessment Report and the EPA Board's decision will be displayed on this website for five years. Assessments completed more than five years ago have been archived. Please contact us if you require information about an assessment process that is no longer on the site.

More information is available on the Assessment Process page.

​Note: Case for Assessment is the collective term for documents submitted by proponents and may take the form of an EIS, EER or, in the case of some older proposals, a DPEMP.

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Tasmania Mines Pty Ltd, Extension of WSF5 Waste Rock Storage Facility, Kara Mine

The proposal involves the extension of the existing WSF5 waste rock storage facility at Kara Mine. The waste rock dump is designed to store approximately 7.2 million tonnes of waste rock from the operation of Kara Mine, with around 1.3 million tonnes deposited per year. To facilitate the extension of the waste rock dump approximately 14 hectares of native vegetation will be required to be cleared.

Assessment Completed 8/7/2025

Unity Mining Pty Limited, Henty Gold Mine, 2024 ROM Extension

The proposal is to increase the footprint by 2.3ha of the existing Run of Mine (ROM) pad at the Henty Gold Mine, 23km north of Queenstown. Henty Gold Mine is an underground mine that produces Gold Doré bars, utilising a Carbon in Leach process to extract gold from mined ore. Ore is extracted from within the mine then transported to the ROM pad, where it is crushed and fed into the mill for processing. The purpose of the ROM extension is to allow for more open area for stockpiling different materials, which includes unprocessed ore, PAF waste rock and NAF waste rock.

Assessment Commenced: 20/8/2024

Wicked Cheese Company Pty Ltd, Increase in Milk Processing Capacity, Richmond

The Wicked Cheese Company Pty Ltd is proposing to intensify operations at it’s milk and cheese processing facility at 1238 Richmond Road, approximately 2km from the Richmond Township. The proposal involves increasing the daily milk processing capacity at the facility from the current level of under 3,000 litres per day to a maximum of 10,000 litres per day. The proposal would result in an increase of wastewater output and requires upgrades to the on-site wastewater treatment system.

Assessment Commenced: 19/6/2025

Goshawk Mining Pty Ltd, South Mount Cameron Operations Intensification

Goshawk Mining Pty Ltd is proposing to intensify the operations at the South Mount Cameron Tin Mine. The mine excavates and processes source gravel to produce tin ore (cassiterite), shingles and sand. Annual extraction and processing limits have varied between 20 000 to 75 000 cubic metres per annum since operations began in 2007, with new extraction and processing limits of 200 000 cubic metres per annum proposed.

Assessment Commenced: 19/8/2024

Southern Waste Solutions, Lutana Waste Transfer Station, Lutana Resource Recovery Works

Southern Waste Solutions is proposing to change the use of the Lutana Waste Transfer Station to allow for resource recovery works on up to 90,000 tonnes of waste per year on the existing site. The recovery works would operate in parallel with the existing waste transfer station. Waste will be separated and processed into product streams for reuse where possible.

Assessment Commenced: 15/11/2024

Greenham Tasmania Pty Ltd, Greenham Smithton Facility Upgrade, Smithton Abattoir

Greenham Tasmania Pty Ltd is proposing to construct replacement operational facilities and demolish redundant infrastructure at the Smithton Abattoir, located off the Bass Highway, approximately 1.5km south of Smithton. There is no change in production volumes proposed.

Assessment Commenced: 14/3/2025

Gadtech Pty Ltd, Nichols Road Quarry Intensification, Nubeena

Gadtech Pty Ltd is proposing to intensify operations Nichols Quarry, located off Nichols Road, less than 1km from the township of Nubeena. The proposal involves a production increase from 10,000 cubic metres up to 20,000 cubic metres of rock and gravel per year, and includes the crushing and screening of material. No change to the Maximum Extraction Area approved by the current Permit is proposed. No new infrastructure is proposed.

Assessment Commenced: 29/4/2025

Springfield Meat Company Pty Ltd, Springfield Abattoir, Production Increase

Springfield Meat Company Pty Ltd is seeking to increase the production capacity of its abattoir at 349 Ten Mile Track, Scottsdale to 4,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) of meat products. The existing Permit Conditions – Environmental No. 10214 has a production limit of 2,000 tpa of meat products. According to the proponent, the production increase will be incremental over several years and no major facility upgrades are required.

Assessment Commenced: 23/5/2025

Spectran Environmental Management Pty Ltd, Oatlands Ensiler Facility, 6820 Midlands Highway, Oatlands

The proposal is for the continued operation and the expansion of the ensilage facility located at 6820 Midlands Highway, Oatlands to process up to 200 tonnes of fish mortalities per day (73,000 tonnes per annum). The ensilage facility will process the fish mortalities into a liquid product which is reused in either compost, directly land spread as a fertiliser or used in other process such as oil recovery, biogas generation or rendering.

Assessment Commenced: 13/5/2025

Mt Oriel Breadalbane Pty Ltd, Mt Oriel Quarry, Expansion and Intensification, Breadalbane

The proposal is to increase production from a maximum 200,000 cubic metres per year for the Cocked Hat Hill permit and maximum 55,000 metres per year for McGraths to a maximum 500,000 cubic metres per year (assumed 900,000 tonnes of product per annum based on a given BD of 1.8 tonnes per cubic metre. The company also propose to import hard material (clean fill), consisting of concrete waste and recycled rock, which will be crushed, screened, and blended on-site, to be exported out for re-use. Up to 30,000 cubic metres of this recyclable material type will be imported to site throughout the year, with the same amount of material to be exported, once its ready for re-use.​

Assessment Commenced: 12/4/2024

Sims Group Australia Holdings Limited, Sims Metal Recycling Relocation, Rocherlea

The project entails the construction and operation of a metals recycling facility at the Site, with the capacity to process a volume of up to 25,000 tonnes per annum. Sims currently processes 15,000 tonnes per annum at its Invermay and Bell Bay sites and this volume will be diverted to the Site for processing, with closure of the existing two sites. Materials will be sourced from a variety of generators including public, municipal and manufacturing sources.

Case for Assessment closed for public comment: 28/5/2025

Mornington Park Development Pty Ltd, Expansion and Upgrade of Hydrowater Treatment Facility, Mornington

Mornington Park Development Pty Ltd proposes to expand and upgrade the existing Hydrowater Treatment Facility at 126 Mornington Park Road, Mornington to allow for receipt, storage, treatment and disposal of up to 30,000 tonnes of material per year.

Case for Assessment closed for public comment: 21/5/2025

ACEN Robbins Island Pty Ltd, Robbins Island Road to Hampshire Transmission Line

ACEN Robbins Island Pty Ltd is proposing to construct and operate a power transmission line from Robbins Island Road to Hampshire, through North-West Tasmania.

Draft guidelines closed for public comment: 27/6/2022

Tyre Recycle Tasmania Pty Ltd, Tyre Shredder, Mowbray

Tyre Recycle Tasmania propose to operate a mobile tyre shredder at their existing Tyre Storage and Processing Facility located at 8 Calvery Road, Mowbray. The approved facility is authorised to process up to 8640 tonnes of end-of-life tyres per annum within an enclosed processing facility, but the facility is yet to be constructed onsite. The site is currently being used to store tyres and the addition of the mobile shredder at the site will enable the processing of tyres.

Assessment Commenced: 7/4/2025

Cement Australia Pty Ltd, Alternate Fuels Project, Railton Cement Works

The NOI proposes to upgrade the Railton Cement Works to enable the use of up to 6,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) of Tyre Derived Fuel and 74,000 tpa of biomass fuel within the kiln to reduce the reliance on coal.

Assessment Commenced: 3/4/2025

Alcore Limited, Aluminium Smelter Bath Waste Recycling Pilot Plant, Bell Bay

Proposal is to construct and operate a pilot facility to recycle aluminium bath waste to produce aqueous hydrogen fluoride (for reuse in the aluminium smelting process) and metal sulfate by-products. The facility will have a total processing capacity of up to 220 tonnes per annum.

Assessment Commenced: 21/2/2025

Mitchell Plastic Welding Pty Ltd, MPW Plastic Recycling Facility, Bridgewater

Mitchell Plastic Welding Pty Ltd proposes to construct a plastic recycling facility that will receive and process up to 8,760 tonnes of used aquaculture plastic and post-consumer plastic per year.

Mitchell Plastic Welding Pty Ltd, MPW Plastic Recycling Facility, Bridgewater

Mitchell Plastic Welding Pty Ltd propose to construct and operate a plastic recycling facility that will receive and process up to 8,760 tonnes of used aquaculture plastic and post-consumer plastic per year.

Assessment Withdrawn: 27/11/2024

Tassal Operations Pty Ltd, Processing Facility Expansion Project, Margate

To improve efficiency across Tassal’s Tasmanian operations, it is proposed to consolidate all filleting operations at the Margate processing facility. Tassal is seeking to increase the production volume of the facility from 4000 t/y to 20,000 t/y saleable product. A variety of infrastructure upgrades will be required to achieve the proposed volume increase. Works include extending existing factory buildings, upgrading the wastewater treatment plant, expanding the car park and managing increased volumes of solid wastes.

Assessment Withdrawn: 14/4/2025

Cellars Hill Wind Farm Pty Ltd, Cellars Hill Wind Farm Major Project, Northwest of Bothwell

This project has been declared a major project under the Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993, resulting in the Environment Protection Authority becoming one of several ‘relevant regulators’ for the project. The project proposal involves the development of a wind farm and associated infrastructure 10km northwest of Bothwell, accessed via Highland Lakes Road, Meadsfield Road and Southernfield/Waddamana Roads. The project will connect to the existing 220Kv transmission line running through the site.

Assessment Commenced: 11/2/2025

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