Queensland Guidelines: Meat Chicken Farms - Department of ...

the remaining capacity of the receiving environment to accept contaminants or wastes released
from future activities while protecting environmental values
the quantity and type of greenhouse gases released, and the measures proposed to
demonstrate the release is minimised using best practice methods that include strategies for
continuous improvement.
If the application is for an increase in the scale or intensity of the poultry farm, the administering
authority must assess the application having regard to the proposed activity and the existing
activity, and the total likely or potential environmental harm these activities may cause.
The assessment manager must also have regard to the common material, any development
approval for, and any lawful use of, the land subject of the application, and any referral agency’s
response.
Once the application has been assessed, the assessment manager must decide to either approve
(in whole or in part) or refuse the application. If a concurrence agency has given a response about
the application, the assessment manager is bound by that response. If the application is approved,
the assessment manager may impose conditions on the approval and must impose conditions
required by a concurrence agency.
The administering authority must for making an environmental management decision relating to an
activity, consider whether to impose conditions about the following matters:
implementing a system for managing risks to the environment
implementing measures for avoiding or minimising the release of contaminants or waste
ensuring an adequate distance between any sensitive land uses v and the relevant site for the
activity to which the decision relates
limiting or reducing the size of the initial mixing zone or attenuation zone vi , if any, that may be
affected by the release of contaminants
treating contaminants before they are released
restricting the type, quality, quantity, concentration or characteristics of contaminants that can
be released
the way in which contaminants may be released
ensuring a minimum degree of dispersion happens when a contaminant is released
protecting environmental values, and meeting quality objectives, under relevant environmental
protection policies
recycling, storing, transferring or disposing of waste in a particular way
rehabilitating land to achieve particular outcomes
measuring the ongoing protection of environmental values that are, or may be, adversely
affected by the activity.
The Environment Protection Act 1994 envisages that it is possible for a development approval to
contain a valid condition which allows the emission of odour beyond the boundary of a property on
which poultry farming is conducted.
v Sensitive land use means a sensitive land use under any relevant environmental protection policies.
vi
Attenuation zone means the area around a release of contaminants to groundwater in which the concentration of the
contaminants in the release is reduced to ambient levels through physico-chemical and microbiological processes.
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