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Application for a permit to clear for a metro rail link at Western Sydney Airport (E2021-0187)

Comments on this application closed 14 July 2021. The text and documents below remain available for reference only. Some documents have been removed due to there sensitive nature.

About the application

The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment has received an application for a permit to kill, injure, take, trade, keep or move under Part 13, section 200 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The application is to kill, injure, take, keep or move up to:

  • 3.49 hectares of Cumberland Plain Woodlands and Shale-Gravel Transition Forest critically endangered ecological community and
  • 11.83 hectares of River-Flat Eucalyptus Forest on Coastal Floodplains of southern New South Wales and eastern Victoria critically endangered ecological community.

Please see the documents below for further details on the proposal.

How can I get involved?

If the application for a permit to conduct the activity is approved the permit will be valid for a period of up to six years.

In accordance with the provisions of section 200(3) of the EPBC Act, you are invited to comment on this proposal.

Please submit your comments by 14 July 2021.

Read the application

General permit application (PDF - 567 KB)

Supplementary Form C (PDF - 802.67 KB)

Attachment – additional information from permit applicant (PDF - 960.97 KB)

Send your comments

Please include your full name and address in your submission.

Comments should be addressed to:

Director
Environment Assessments NSW and ACT Branch
Environment Approvals Division
Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
GPO Box 858
Canberra ACT 2601

or can be e-mailed to: EPBC.permits@awe.gov.au

To assist in considering comments, you are encouraged to provide comments under the following headings:

  • Management and methodology
  • Monitoring procedures
  • Ecological sustainability of the operation
  • Animal welfare
  • Other
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