- Code
- EX_1
- Description
- You must immediately notify the Authority by calling 1300 EPA VIC (1300 372 842) in the event of:
a) A discharge, emission or deposit which gives rise to, or may give rise to, actual or potential harm to human health or the environment;
b) A malfunction, breakdown or failure of risk control measures at the site which could reasonably be expected to give rise to actual or potential harm to human health or the environment; or
c) Any breach of this exemption.
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- EX_2
- Description
- You must notify the Authority within 48 hours of the occurrence of any the following:
(a) Any change to your name or address (including your registered address and site as applicable); or
(b) A change to an officer (as defined in the Act).
You must update the EPA Portal if any other relevant administrative details for your business change.
- Code
- EX_3
- Description
- This exemption expires a) on the issue of an operating licence relating to all activities covered by this permission; b) when the Authority advises in writing that all activities covered by this permission have been satisfactorily completed; or c) on the expiry date listed on the front page of this permission.
- Code
- EX_4
- Description
- A copy of this exemption must be kept at the activity site and be easily accessible to persons who are engaging in an activity conducted at the activity site. Information regarding the requirements of the exemption and the Act duties must be included in site induction and training information.
- Code
- EX_5
- Description
- 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; 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
(c) made available to the Authority on request.
- Code
- EX_6
- Description
- Subject to the following conditions, this exemption allows you to:
in accordance with the revised application APP012985 received on 2/11/2022 and 21/11/2022, and supporting information received under RFI002850 (received on 14/12/23022), RFI002901 (received on 13/1/2023), and an email received on 19/01/2023, construct and commission: (a) a brewery operation that produces up to 1.1 Mega litres of beer per year; (b) an advanced secondary wastewater treatment system to treat wastewater from the brewery at no more than 4,700 L/day; (c) a 2,350 L/day capacity drip irrigation system for irrigating treated wastewater from the brewery including a 10,000 L storage tank; (d) pipe works for the purpose of providing non-potable uses of treated brewery wastewater (washdown water and toilet flushing); (e) a secondary wastewater treatment system to treat sewage from the cellar door sale area at no more than 5,020 L/per day; (f) a subsurface dispersal system for the purpose of treating wastewater from the cellar door sale area to a Class C effluent quality.
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- EX_7
- Description
- Waste from the activity site must not be discharged or disposed of to the environment except in accordance with this exemption or with any permission or approval issued by the Authority that may relate to the activity site.
- Code
- EX_8
- Description
- You must undertake the following actions: Prior to commencing any activities, submit to the Authority: (i) final drawings and schematics of the wastewater treatment systems for the brewery and the cellar door sale area including capacity of all relevant equipment items; and (ii) appropriate noise mitigation measure to minimise noise emissions from the refrigeration compressors as far as reasonably practicable.
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- EX_9
- Description
- You must maintain records that clearly specify:
the activity has a planning permit or amendment to a planning scheme required under the Planning and Environment Act 1987 (Vic).
This information must be made available to the Authority on request.
- Code
- EX_C1
- Description
- Commissioning activities must be undertaken in accordance with the approved commissioning plan referred to in condition EX_R1.
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- EX_C2
- Description
- Construction and commissioning must not cause or result in any breach of any permission or exemption issued by the Authority for the permission or exempted activity, except where authorised by a condition of this exemption.
- Code
- EX_C5
- Description
- Within 40 business days of the completion of the approved activities, you must provide to EPA a written report that summarises the activities undertaken and includes:
(a) results of the commissioning activities referred to in condition EX_R1; and (b) Health and Environment Management Plan for the proposed uses of treated wastewaters from the cellar door sales area and the brewery, that must include (but not limited to): (i) a soil management plan; (ii) a wastewater monitoring program for the two wastewater treatment plants; and (iii) a groundwater management plan.
- Code
- EX_D4
- Description
- You must notify the Authority when the developments covered by this exemption has been completed.
- Code
- EX_D5
- Description
- This exemption does not allow you to undertake any activities that are the subject of your application until the Authority has inspected the completed developments and provides written approval that such activities can be undertaken.
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- EX_R1
- Description
- At least 20 business days before the commencement of any commissioning, you must provide to the Authority a commissioning plan that include(s): (a) a verification monitoring program for (i) the brewery wastewater treatment system to meet Class A recycled water for toilet flushing and Class B equivalent recycled water for brewery washdown use, and (ii) the cellar door sale area wastewater treatment system to meet Class C effluent; and (b) performance verification objectives of (i) the brewery wastewater treatment system to meet Class A recycled water for toilet flushing and Class B equivalent recycled water for brewery washdown use, and (ii) the cellar door sales area wastewater treatment system to meet Class C effluent.
