Documents you should include in your application

• Storage management plan

  The storage management plan should include:

  • a site plan and stockpile layout that identifies how and where waste is stored. It should show waste is stored in a way that minimises the risk of fire, so far as reasonably practicable
  • the estimated amount of waste, the types accepted and maximum storage amounts / volumes
  • the systems and processes you use to identify and classify wastes and track the volume to be accepted, stored and processed at the site.

  Management and storage of combustible recyclable and waste materials - guideline (publication 1667) has more information.

• Risk management and monitoring program (RMMP)

  You must develop and maintain a RMMP for your permitted activities. It must:

  • identify all the risks of harm to human health and the environment which may arise from activities at your site
  • describe how you’ll continue to eliminate or minimise the risks you’ve identified, so far as reasonably practicable
  • clearly define your environmental performance objectives
  • clearly define your risk control performance objectives
  • describe how you’re achieving the environmental and risk control performance objectives.

  Implementing the general environmental duty: A guide for licence holders (publication 1851) has more information.

• Emergency management plan

  An EMP identifies potential emergency events including pollution incidents and the actions waste and resource recovery facility owners, employees, contractors and visitors should take during these events.

  Chapter 6 of Management and storage of combustible recyclable and waste materials - guideline (publication 1667) has more information.

• Financial assurance proposal

  You must submit a financial assurance proposal with your licence or permit application. You should base this on EPA’s calculation method, or an independent assessment of the amount required to remove stockpiled waste and remediate the site.

  You can use Calculation of financial assurance for landfills, reportable priority waste management and waste and resource recovery facilities (publication 2003) to work out the amount.

  Developing new financial assurance guidance for the waste and resource recovery sector – external consultation report (publication 1963) is a report that presents EPA’s response to submissions on the proposed method to calculate financial assurance for waste and resource recovery facilities.

• Fire risk assessment (required for activities involving Combustible Recyclable Waste Material)

  A fire risk assessment (FRA) identifies fire hazards and risks. It also shows how you propose to manage these. This may be included within the overarching risk management and monitoring program (RMMP). FRA’s include details of the controls which prevent firewater entering the environment when it has been contaminated by waste and burnt residues.

  Chapters 3 and 4 of Management and storage of combustible recyclable and waste materials - guideline  (publication 1667) has more information.

  Control of Fire Water Run-Off  (FRV publication GL-12) also has more information.