- Code
- OL_DA01
- Description
- Discharge of waste to air must be in accordance with Appendix 5.
- Code
- OL_DA02
- Description
- Visible emissions to air other than steam must not be discharged from the activity site, except as permitted by this licence.
- Code
- OL_DW02
- Description
- Discharge of waste to surface waters must be in accordance with Appendix 6.
- Code
- OL_DW02.01.04
- Description
- The licence limit for each indicator in Appendix 6 is specified as a flow weighted average (FWA) for discharge points DP1 to DP9, where the FWA equals the total waste load divided by the total flow rate, and the waste load from each discharge point (DP) equals the concentration of waste multiplied by the flow rate for that DP.
- Code
- OL_DW02.08
- Description
- Discharge of treated wastewater during wet weather conditions must be in accordance with specifications in "Discharge to Water" section of EPA Publication 1322 'Licence Management Guidelines'.
- Code
- OL_DW03
- Description
- You must ensure that the receiving environment at the following distance from the relevant discharge points achieves background levels in relation to the mixing zone as shown in Appendix 2 for these indicators:
The mixing zone extends from 2 kilometres to the north-east of discharge point 1 to 2 kilometres to the south-west of discharge point 4 and for 2 kilometres offshore for Escherichia Coli, Chlorophyll a and Total Dissolved Solids and for a 200 metre radius, for Toxicants and Dissolved Oxygen from any of the the licensed waste discharge points.
- Code
- OL_DW04
- Description
- You must install and maintain signage in the vicinity of the mixing zone displaying:
(a) the extent and nature of the mixing zone;
(b) your name;
(c) your EPA licence number; and
(d) the discharge point number.
- Code
- OL_G01
- Description
- A copy of this licence 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 licence and the Act duties must be included in site induction and training information.
- Code
- OL_G02
- 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 activity 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 the licence.
- Code
- OL_G03
- 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 activity site as applicable);
(b) You become, or are likely to become, an insolvent under administration;
(c) You become, or are likely to become, an externally administered company under the Corporations Act; or
(d) A change to an officer (as defined in the Act).
You must update your information in the EPA Interaction Portal if any other relevant administrative details for your business change.
- Code
- OL_G04a
- Description
- You 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).
- Code
- OL_G04b
- Description
- 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.
- Code
- OL_G05
- 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 (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.
- Code
- OL_G07
- Description
- 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.
- Code
- OL_RW11
- Description
- Your risk management and monitoring program (RMMP) referenced in condition OL_G05 must include and maintain a Health and Environment Management Plan (HEMP) that is in accordance with the "Victorian guideline for water recycling" (EPA Publication 1910), as amended from time to time.
- Code
- OL_WA01
- Description
- 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.
- Code
- OL_WA01.02.02
- Description
- Only untreated sewage that does not exceed an annual median limit for total dissolved solids of 1000 mg/L may be accepted at the site.
- Code
- OL_WA02
- Description
- Wastes accepted at the activity site may only be treated or disposed of in accordance with Appendix 4.
- Code
- OL_WM01.03
- Description
- You can only treat up to a month average of 270,000 litres of waste (sum of K100, K200 and K210) at the activity site per day, ensuring the Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) load is maintained at less than or equal to 3% average incoming COD load, as a part of the co-digestion.
- Code
- OL_WM01.08
- Description
- You must not treat more than 25 dry tonnes of K400-H per day when averaged over any given month in the lagoons at the activity site until 31 December 2029. To continue receiving and treating K400-H beyond this date, you must apply for an operating licence amendment. A dry tonne represents the residual weight of solid material once all water has been removed.
- Code
- OL_WM11
- Description
- 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.
- Code
- OL_WM13
- Description
- Notwithstanding the discharge limits set out in this licence, the licence holder’s risk management and monitoring program must address:
(a) Causes of short-term variation in emissions (which may include equipment or process failures and replacement of components);
(b) Opportunities to reduce long term and event-driven emissions through practices or controls; and
(c) Key indicators of emission variation including process and system indicators.
- Code
- OL_WM14
- Description
- All plant and equipment must be maintained and operated in proper working condition, in accordance with the manufacturer’s specifications.
