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Dendrobium Minem – Plan Forfo the Future: Ststrategic Plannining Documentsnts DENDROOBIUM MININE - PLAN FORFO THE FUTUREE: COAL FORFO STEELMMAKING DECEMBERB 2016 PRELIMINARY ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT Dendrobium MinMine – Plan for ththe Future: Coalal forf Steelmakinging – Preliminaryy EEnvironmentall AssessmentA EXECUTUTIVE SUMMMMARY PurposePu of thishis Document The Dendndrobium Minee (the Mine) iss ana existing ThisTh documentnt anda the statemtements thereinin are undergrouround coal minene situated in the Southern providedpro for thehe purposes of mmeeting the regulatoryre Coalfieldld ofo New Southth Wales (NSWW) approximatetely requirementsreq of a Preliminaryary Environmentntal 15 kilomeetres west off Wollongong.W AssessmentAs and not for thee ppurpose of infonforming investorsinv or poteotential investortors on Exploratiration Illawarraa CCoal Holdingsgs Pty Ltd (Illawwarra Coal), a results,res Mineralral Resources or Ore Reserveves. wholly owwned subsidiariary of South322 Limited,L is thehe owner andnd operator of the Mine. ThisTh documentt hash been preprepared to providvide a descriptionde of theth Project to kkey State regulgulatory The Minee extracts coalal from the Wonongawilli Seam agenciesag to initiaitiate the prepararation of the using undnderground longngwall mining mmethods. Thehe Secretary’sSe Envnvironmental AsAssessment Mine primimarily producesces hard cokingg coal and hass RequirementsRe (SEARs).(S Thee SEARs will identifyid any an approvoved operationanal capacity of up to 5.2 millioillion further matterss tthat will needd to be addressssed in the tonnes perpe annum of runru -of-mine (ROROM) coal untiltil EnvironmentalEn l ImpactI Statemement (EIS) forr thet 31 Decemember 2030. ProjectPr . The extracraction of undererground coall fromfr the Mine Separately,Se thee Project will alsalso be referreded to the providess benefitsb at natational, state anand local levelsels. CommonwealthCo lth Minister forr ththe Environmeent and EnergyEn for consnsideration as to whether thee Project Local benenefits are realisalised through: meetsme the criterieria of a ‘Controtrolled Action’’ andan requiresreq approvoval under the CCommonwealtalth • localcal employmentnt with economimic flow-on EnvironmentEn ProtectionPro andd BBiodiversity benenefits in the Illawllawarra and Woollondilly ConservationCo Act,Ac 1999. regiogions; AssessmentAs off thet potentiall eenvironmentaltal issues in • greaeater than 4000 lolocal businesssses directly the EIS would ininclude consideideration of: engagaged to providvide goods andd servs ices; andd • provoviding approximximately 60% of BlueScope • existing enenvironment usiusing sufficientt baselineb Steeeel’s coking coaoal requirementnts. data; • potentiall imimpacts of allll sstages of thee ProjectP Overviewew of the Projeject including rrelevant cumululative impactsts; Illawarraa CCoal is seekining a new Devevelopment • measuress that could bee implementedd to avoid, Consentt tot extend thee undergroundu d mmining areass ata mitigate,, rehabilitate/remre emediate, monitnitor and/or the Mine to gain accessss to additionalal areas withinin offset thee ppotential impapacts of the Proroject; and Consolidaidated Coal Leasase 768. Thisis wouldw be • contingencncy plans and/od/or adaptive supporteded by developmment of suppororting managemement for managaging any potenentially infrastructcture and an exextension to the approved significantnt residual risksks to the environronment. surface opoperations by aapproximatelyly 18 years. AssessmentsAs fofor the EIS wouould consider applicableap This propoposal is referrered to as the DendrobiumDe policies,po guidelinelines and plansns included in theth NSW Mine – PlaPlan for the Futuuture: Coal forr SteelmakingS Government’sGo InIndicative Secrecretary’s Enviroironmental (the Projeject). AssessmentAs RequirementsRe fofor State Signifinificant MiningMi Developmopments. The implelementation of thet Project wouldwo facilitatee the contintinuation of benenefits derived fromfr the Mine, TheTh Project is StateS Significancant Developmeent, and includingg tthe 270 directct jobs produceced through thereforethe Develoelopment Consensent will be souought longwallll ccoal extractionon at the Mine.. underun the NSWW Environmentantal Planning andan AssessmentAs Act, 1979 from ththe NSW Minisnister for PlanningPla (or delelegate). 00812397 ES-1 Dendrobium MinMine – Plan for ththe Future: Coalal forf Steelmakinging – Preliminaryy EEnvironmentall AssessmentA TABLEE OF CONTETENTS LISTLI OF TABLBLES EXECUTITIVE SUMMARRY ES-1 1 INTINTRODUCTIONION 1 TableTa 1 Summmmary Compariarison of the ApprovedAp 1.1 PURPOSOSE AND STRURUCTURE OF Minene and Project THIS DOOCUMENT 1 TableTa 2 Mininning and Exploraoration Tenemenents 1.2 OVERVIEVIEW OF THE Relatlated to the Projroject DENDROROBIUM MINE 3 TableTa 3 Charaaracteristics off tthe Target Seaeams 1.3 PROJECCT SUMMARYY 3 TableTa 4 Keyy PPotential Envirvironmental Issussues, Reququired Level andnd Scope of 2 STSTRATEGIC COCONTEXT 8 Envirvironmental Assssessment andd 2.1 TARGETET RESOURCEE 8 Prelimliminary Strategtegies to Addresess 2.2 REGIONNAL CONTEXTXT 10 Potentential Impacts 2.3 PERMISSISSIBILITY ANDND STRATEEGIC PLANNINING 11 LISTLI OF FIGUURES 3 PRPROJECT DESCSCRIPTION ANAND PRPROJECT RATITIONALE 16 FigureFig 1 Regiogional Location 3.1 PROPONONENT 16 FigureFig 2 Geneneral Arrangemment of the Apppproved 3.2 EXISTINGING DENDROBBIUM MINE 16 Dendndrobium Mine 3.3 PROJECCT ACTIVITIESIES 17 FigureFig 3 Projeject General ArArrangement 3.4 EMPLOYYMENT 18 FigureFig 4 Indicaicative Stratigraraphic Sectionn – Project 3.5 PROJECCT SCHEDULELE 18 Areaa 3.6 MANAGEGEMENT COMMMMITMENTS 18 FigureFig 5 Relevlevant Land Owwnership 3.7 PROJECCT RATIONALALE 18 4 PRPRELIMINARYY ENVIRONMEENTAL LISTLI OF ATTATACHMENTSS IMIMPACT ASSESESSMENT 20 4.1 OVERVIEVIEW 20 AttacAtt hment A Provisionall DDevelopment 4.2 LEVEL ANDA SCOPE OFO Application AArea and Prelimliminary ASSESSSMENT 20 Schedule off LLands 5 STSTAKEHOLDERER ENGAGEMEMENT 25 5.1 ENGAGEGEMENT TO DADATE 25 5.2 STAKEHHOLDER ENGGAGEMENT PROGRARAM 25 6 REREFERENCES 27 00812397 i Dendrobium MinMine – Plan for ththe Future: Coalal forf Steelmakinging – Preliminaryy EEnvironmentall AssessmentA 1 IINTRODUCCTION • Indicativee SSecretary’s EnEnvironmentalal Assessmeent Requiremeents for State Significantnt Mining Develvelopments (NSWSW 1.1 PPURPOSE ANAND STRUCTUURE OF THISIS Governmeent, 2015a); DDOCUMENT • the decisiosion of the Commmmonwealth MinisterMi for The Dendndrobium Mine (the Mine), ownedow and the Environronment and EnEnergy regardining the operatedd bby Illawarra CoalC Holdingss PPty Ltd referral of thet relevantt ‘A‘Action’ underr thet (Illawarrara Coal), a whololly owned subsbsidiary of EPBC Act;ct; and South322 LLimited (Southuth32), is an exisxisting • applicablele guidelines anand statutory undergrouround coal minene situated in the Southern consideratrations. Coalfieldld ofo New Southth Wales (NSWW) approximatetely 8 kilometretres (km) westst of Wollongongng (Figure 1). ThisTh document has been preprepared in consisideration of the Mine Apppplication Guideideline (NSW The exististing mining opeperations are unundertaken in Government,Go 202015b). The dodocument is strutructured accordancnce with Develoelopment Consesent as follows: DA 60-03-2001 (as mododified), as welell as the Approvalal DecisionD (EPBPBC 2001/214)4) under the SectionSe 1 InIntroduction – pprovides backgckground to Commonwnwealth Environironment Protectection and ththe approved MMine and a sumummary of Biodiversirsity Conservatioation Act, 1999 (EPBC Act). ththe Project. 1 Illawarraa CCoal is seekinking a new Devevelopment SectionSe 2 SStrategic Contentext – summariarises the Consentt tot extend thee uundergroundd mmining areass ata chcharacteristicss of the target Coal the Mine to gain accessss to additionalal areas withinin Resource, descscribes the locacal and Consolidaidated Coal Leasase (CCL) 7688. This wouldd bbe reregional contexext of the Projecject and supporteded by developmment of suppororting ououtlines the perermissibility off thet infrastructcture and an exextension to the approved PProject and pototential relevanant surface opoperations. Thehe proposal iss hereinh referredred ststatutory plannining instrumentents and to as thee Dendrobium MineM – Plan forfo the Future: ststrategic plannining documentsnts. Coal forr SteelmakingS (th(the Project). SectionSe 3 PProject Descripription and Projeoject This docucument has beeeen prepared to provide a RRationale – prorovides a conciscise descriptiotion of the Projeject to key Stateate regulatory dedescription off theth Project, indicatesind agencies to initiate thee preparation of the ththe types of actactivities that wouldwo be Secretaryry’s Environmenental Assessmement unundertaken andnd includes a descriptionde Requiremments (SEARs)s) in accordancnce with clausese 3 of the rationalele for the Projecject. of Schedudule 2 of the NSNSW Environmemental Planninging SectionSe 4 PPreliminary Envnvironmental ImpactIm and Assessessment Regulgulation, 2000 AAssessment – identifies keyy (EP&A ReRegulation). Thehe SEARs willill identifyi any enenvironmentalal iissues of partirticular further mattersma that willill need to be addressedad in theth rerelevance to the Project, outlutlines the Environmemental Impactt StatementS (EISEIS). prproposed levelel and scope of enenvironmentalal aassessment, anda The Projeject will also be referred to theth ididentifies stratetegies to addresress the Commonwnwealth Ministester for the Envirvironment and imimpacts identifitified. Energy fofor consideratiotion as to whethther the Projectct meets
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