Overview
The NT EPA is preparing to implement the Northern Territory Government's newly reformed environmental regulatory regime.
The Environment Protection Act 2019 will replace the current environmental impact assessment process.
Now available for comment is the draft Guidance for proponents – Stakeholder engagement and consultation.
Meaningful engagement and consultation by proponents with the community and stakeholders is fundamental to conducting an open, transparent and robust environmental impact assessment. Proponents who commence the stakeholder engagement process early, with a strategic long-term view, are more likely to achieve overall positive outcomes for their proposal.
Effective stakeholder engagement involves interactions between identified groups of people to build relationships, gain mutual respect, make better decisions and assist proponents in obtaining and maintaining a social licence to operate
Why we are consulting
To assist proponents of development proposals and other stakeholders to understand and participate in the new environmental impact assessment process, the NT EPA is developing a series of guidance documents. These will be released for comment over the coming weeks.
Stakeholders are encouraged to visit the NT EPA consultation webpage regularly to stay informed about the development of guidance documents, and to view the draft guidance documents that have been released for public comment.
Documents
Draft guidance documents
- Guide NTEPA Environmental Factors and Objectives.pdf PDF (300.2 KB)
- Referring a proposal to the NT EPA PDF (552.1 KB)
- Making a public submission during the environmental impact assessment process PDF (729.5 KB)
- Referring significant variation to NTEPA EIA guidance proponents draft consultation PDF (449.7 KB)
- Preparing a supplementary environmental report PDF (523.3 KB)
- Preparing an environmental impact statement PDF (531.3 KB)
- Guidance proponents stakeholder engagement and consultation PDF (551.1 KB)
- Preparing a proponent initiated EIS referral PDF (486.7 KB)
- Statement of Reasons (SOR) template for a proponent initiated EIS referral DOCX (27.8 KB)
- Terms of Reference (TOR) template for a proponent initiated EIS referral DOCX (31.5 KB)
- Referring a proposal to the NT EPA v2.0 PDF (552.1 KB)
- Form - Change of proponent DOCX (51.6 KB)
- Form - Confidential information application DOCX (65.7 KB)
- Form - Fit and proper person declaration DOCX (73.3 KB)
- Form - Proponent declaration v1.0 DOCX (47.8 KB)
- Form - Referral of a proposal v3.0 DOCX (53.5 KB)