The nature of the Abbot Point dredge dumping approval, including the

ANAO Report No.3 2015–16 Regulation of Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Permits and Approvals 75 Table 4.1: Common conditions applying to Marine Park permits Condition Type Applicable Permits Condition Details Standard • All permits • Activities undertaken in accordance with Qld laws • Permit or certified copy must be held on sitevessel • Permit holder must inform staff and participants of relevant restrictions applying under permit, zoning plan, plans of management and Marine Park regulations Location • All permits • Can be broad such as the entire Marine Park or one of four Marine Park management areas or specific particular reefs or a set of GPS coordinates • Limitationsrestrictions in particular sensitive frequent use areas in terms of: access frequency; closures at times of the year; vessel speed limits; vesselaircraft size; and aircraft flying altitude Vessels aircraft • Tourism • Limitations on number, size, passenger capacity • Use of fit-for-purpose moorings • Barge • Vessel maintenance, harm minimisation Specified activities • Tourism • Can include swimming, snorkelling, diving, fishing, fish feeding, passenger transport, non-motorised watercraft, motorised watercraft, coral viewing, sail training, whale watching, scenic cruisesflights • Research • Harvest fisheries • Limitations on species types, species quantity, collection methods and collection locations • Moorings • Installation, maintenance, harm minimisation • Facilitiesworks structures • Installation, maintenance, harm minimisation • Application of environmental management plan • Involvement of environmental site supervisor Indemnity insurance • Tourism • Moorings • Facilitiesworks structures • Permit holders indemnify GBRMPA and the State of Queensland against loss or damage • Public liability insurance commonly 10 million Deeds bonds • Facilitiesworks structures • Reimbursement of site monitoring costs • Facilitates the: • removal of unpermittedunmaintained facilitiesstructures at GBRMPA’s discretion • remediation of sites Monitoring reporting • All permits • Varies by permit type and is examined in Chapter 6 Source: ANAO analysis of GBRMPA information.