Category: Other advice
The main purposes of this document are:
to provide information and advice to assist participants in land use planning and development processes to protect, conserve and enhance the environment, and
to describe the processes the EPA may apply under the EP Act to land use planning and...
Category: Administrative Procedures
The environmental impact assessment (EIA) of development proposals is undertaken in accordance with Part IV Division 1 of the EP Act and the Environmental Impact Assessment (Part IV Divisions 1 and 2) Administrative Procedures 2024.
These procedures describe the principles and practices of EIA...
Category: EIA Procedures Manual
The EPA’s Environmental Impact Assessment (Part IV Divisions 1 and 2) Procedures Manual provides guidance, primarily for proponents and consultants, on the environmental impact assessment process for proposals.
The Procedures Manual supports the Administrative Procedures and contains more detailed...
Category: Environmental Protection Policies
Kwinana is a major heavy industrial area 30 km south of Perth, Western Australia. Most industry is concentrated in a strip of land about eight kilometres long bordering the Indian Ocean.
In the late 1970s emissions of sulfur dioxide from Kwinana industries caused significant pollution in nearby...
Category: Environmental Protection Policies
Nutrient enrichment of the Harvey Estuary has been caused by the clearing of native vegetation in the policy area and by land uses that result in nutrients, especially phosphorus, leaching into waterways in the policy area and then flowing into the Estuary. This stimulates excessive algal growth...
Category: Environmental Protection Policies
The Western Swamp Tortoise is the most endangered tortoise or turtle species on Earth. It is listed under the Western Australian Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016, the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the United Nations Convention on International...
Category: Environmental Protection Policies
Review of the Environmental Protection (Goldfields Residential Areas)(Sulfur Dioxide) Policy 2003
In accordance with section 36(1)(b) of the Environmental Protection Act 1986, the Minister for Environment has directed the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) not to...
Category: Technical and reference docs
The EPA has established an environmental quality management framework for Cockburn Sound, which has been given effect through the State Environmental (Cockburn Sound) Policy 2015 (Government of Western Australia, 2015). The framework is underpinned by established environmental values and clearly...