A01 – Reportable priority waste management

Learn about the A01 – Reportable priority waste management licences, the conditions you must comply with and how to apply.

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When you need a licence for this activity

You must get a permission from us to conduct certain activities that have risk of harm to human health and the environment. These are called prescribed activities and are defined in Schedule 1 of the Environment Protection Regulations 2021.

Reportable priority waste is generally hazardous by nature. This type of waste poses the greatest level of risk to human health and the environment.

Under the Regulations, you need an A01 – Reportable priority waste management development licence and operating licence for storing, treating, reprocessing, containing or disposing of any reportable waste (transport) generated at another site. This does not include these activities:

Learn more about managing industrial waste.

Exemptions

Under some circumstances, you can apply for a development licence exemption or an operating licence exemption.

To transport reportable priority waste:

To use reportable priority waste or supply it to others, you need an A16 – Supply or use of reportable priority waste permit.

Information to include in your application

When you submit your application in the portal, it must include certain information and supporting evidence. To learn more, visit Apply for a development licence or Apply for an operating licence.

If you're unsure of the type of permission you need, use our free permission pathway process before you start your application.

For this application, you must also provide:

  • Evidence of the site's capacity to store, handle, treat, deposit and/or accept the proposed waste – if your application is not following a development licence exemption.
  • Activity plan(s) – if there's been a change in operations.
  • Contour plan(s) – if you are adding a new landfill cell to a landfill that accepts reportable priority waste from another site.
  • Waste classification or categorisation reports – for example, if there's been a waste designation.

You may be required to provide financial assurance. For information about financial assurance for reportable priority waste management activities, visit Financial assurance for reportable priority waste management. This includes information about how your financial assurance amount is calculated.

Application fee

For a list of current fees and how they're calculated, visit Fees. An extra fee may apply if we need more time than specified in the Regulations to assess your application.

If an application fee applies, we cannot assess your application until we've received and processed this fee.

How long your licence is valid for

If we issued your operating licence before 1 July 2021, there's no expiry date. If we issued it after 1 July 2021, then your licence is valid for:

  • up to 99 years for a waste management activity at a current or former landfill site
  • up to 20 years in any other case.

The duration of a development licence depends on the activity. This is stated in a condition when we issue the licence. To extend the duration, you must apply for an amendment.

How we assess your application

Find out how we assess your application and how long it takes.

Operating licence conditions

Permission conditions outline the legal obligations for the permission holder. They set up a framework for risk management, record keeping and reporting.

Where a condition includes:

  • the word 'placeholder', values will be populated with information that's specific to your site
  • a reference to a 'figure' or 'appendix', information will be populated that's specific to your site.

'Authority' means Environment Protection Authority (EPA).

Other conditions may apply.

Condition codeDescription
OL_G04aYou must provide to the Authority with a Permission Information and Performance Statement (PIPS) in the form determined by the Authority within 2 months of receiving notification in writing from the Authority. The PIPS may be released to the public (in whole or in part).
OL_G04b

Information and monitoring records used for the preparation of, inclusion in, or support of, any reporting or notification that is required of you by the Authority (including data reporting, performance reporting, documents evidencing any risk and monitoring program) must be:

a) retained for five years; and

b) made available to the Authority on request.

OL_G5

1. You must develop a risk management and monitoring program for your activities which:

(a) identifies all the risks of harm to human health and the environment which may arise from the activities you are engaging in at your activity site;

(b) clearly defines your environmental performance objectives;

(c) clearly defines your risk control performance objectives;

(d) describes how the environmental and risk control performance objectives are being achieved;

(e) identifies and describes how you will continue to eliminate or minimise the risks in 1(a) (above) so far as reasonably practicable (SFARP); and

(f) describes how the information collated in compliance with this clause, is or will be disseminated, used or otherwise considered by you or any other entity.

2. The risk management and monitoring program must be:

(a) documented in writing;

(b) signed by a duly authorised officer of the licensed entity; and

(c) made available to the Authority on request."

OL_G06.02

You must:

(a) provide the Authority with a financial assurance in a form and for an amount determined by the Authority, by a date specified by the Authority; and

(b) maintain such financial assurance (including any part of such assurance) so that it can be claimed on, utilised or realised by the Authority as and when required.

OL_G07

You must:

(a) develop and maintain a decommissioning plan that is in accordance with the current decommissioning guidelines published by the Authority;

(b) provide the decommissioning plan to the Authority upon request;

(c) supply to the Authority an updated detailed decommissioning plan 40 business days prior to commencement of decommissioning, if you propose to divest a section of the licensed site, cease part or all of the licensed activity or reduce the basis upon which the licence was granted to a point where licensing is no longer required; and

(d) decommission the licensed site in accordance with the detailed decommissioning plan, to the satisfaction of the Authority and within any reasonable timeframe which may be specified by the Authority.

OL_WA01

You must ensure all of the following:

a) Only waste of a type shown in Appendix 4 of this licence is accepted at the activity site; and

b) If it is identified that any waste has been received at the activity site that is of a type not shown in Appendix 4 in contravention of paragraph a) above, such waste must be placed in a designated and sign-posted temporary storage area and sent for disposal to a site licensed by the Authority to receive such waste within 21 days of the date it was received.

OL_WA02Wastes accepted at the activity site may only be treated or disposed of in accordance with Appendix 4.
OL_WM01You can store up to [placeholder1] at the activity site at any time.
OL_WM02Each container holding waste at the activity site must be labelled so that the contents and the waste producer can be identified.
OL_WM11

For all wastes of a type listed in Appendix 4, you must keep records of:

(a) incoming and outgoing movements of waste;

(b) the current location of waste at your activity site; and

(c) the waste type of any waste located at your activity site.
These records must be retained for five years and be made available to the Authority on request.

OL_WM14All plant and equipment must be maintained and operated in proper working condition, in accordance with the manufacturer’s specifications.

Conditions for development licences are specific for each licence.

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Apply for an A01 – Reportable priority waste management development or operating licence in our portal.

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