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APPENDIX 2 – GLOSSARY, ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

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ISAAC DOWNS PROJECT

Isaac Downs Project

Appendix 2 – Glossary, Acronyms and Abbreviations

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1. GLOSSARY, ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

Acronym / Abbreviation

Full wording / Explanation

AADT Annual Average Daily Traffic

ABA Acid-Base Account

Abiotic Non-living

ABSBR Australian Bureau of Statistics Business Register

ACCUs Australian Carbon Credit Units

ACH Act Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld)

AEP Annual Exceedance Probability

AGWR Phase 1 Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling: Managing Health and Environmental Risks (Phase 1) (2006)

AHD Australian Height Datum

Air EPP Environmental Protection (Air) Policy 2019

Air NEPM The National Environment Protection (Ambient Air Quality) Measure

Al Aluminium

ALARP As Low As Reasonably Practicable

ALC Agricultural Land Classes

Ambient Background

ANC Acid Neutralising Capacity

ANC/MPA Ratio Ratio of the acid neutralising capacity (ANC) to the maximum potential acidity (MPA) of a sample.

ANU Australian National University

AOI Area of Influence

As Arsenic

AS1055 Australian Standard 1055:2018 Acoustics – Description and measurement of environmental noise (Standards Australia, 2018)

AS1940 AS 1940:2004. The Storage and Handling of Flammable and Combustible Liquids

AS2187 AS 2187.1-1998 Explosives - Storage, Transport and Use

ASC NEPM National Environment Protection (Assessment of Site Contamination) Measure 1999, and 2013 amendment

ASRIS Australian Soil Resource Information System

ATP Authority to Prospect

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ATSIHP Act Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984

AU Auger Hole

AUL(s) Auxiliary Left Turn (short)

Austroads GRD: Part 4A

Austroads (2010) Guide to Road Design Part 4A: Unsignalised and Signalised Intersections

Austroads GTM: Part 3

Austroads (2009) Guide to Traffic Management Part 3: Traffic Studies and Analysis

AWBM Australian Water Balance Model

AWS Automatic weather station

Barren Negligibly low total sulfur (and sulfide) concentration and, essentially, has no acid generating capacity

BBAC Barada Barna Aboriginal Corporation

bcmpa Bank Cubic Metres Per Annum

BCR Benefit Cost Ratio

BD Status Biodiversity Status

bg Background

bgl Below ground level

Blast magazine Explosives storage area

Blasting Guideline Noise and Vibration from Blasting Guideline (DES, January 2006)

BoM Bureau of Meteorology

BTEXN Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, Xylenes and Naphthalene

Building Act Building Act 1975 (Qld)

Burra Charter The Burra Charter: The Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance

BVG Broad Vegetation Group

C,O,D Construction, Operation and Decommissioning

Ca Calcium

Capex Capital Expenditure

Cation Positively charged ion

CBA Cost Benefit Analysis

CCA Consequence Category Assessment

CE Critically Endangered

CEC Cation Exchange Capacity

CG Coordinator-General

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CG’s Coordinator-General’s

CHMA Cultural Heritage Management Agreement

CHMP Cultural Heritage Management Plan

CHPP Coal Handling and Preparation Plant / Coal Handling and Processing Plant

CHR(s) Channelised Right Turn (short)

CHS Construction Health and Safety

Cl Chloride

CLR Contaminated Land Register

CMSH Act Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999

CO Carbon monoxide

CPDD Coordinated Project Delivery Division

CSEP Community and Stakeholder Engagement Plan

CSG Coal Seam Gas

CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

CWD Clean Water Dam

DAF Department of Agriculture and Fisheries

DATSIP Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships

dB Lin Peak Maximum air pressure of a blast pressure wave

DBCT Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal

dBL Linear decibels, the same as dB but used to explicitly define a decibel scale in the absence of any frequency weighting

DES Department of Environment and Science

Design Horizons scenarios for the transport assessment which consider baseline and Project traffic generation estimates at critical Project milestones

DEWS Department of Energy and Water Supply

Dido Drive In / Drive Out

DNRME Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy

DoEE Commonwealth Department of the Environment and Energy

DSA Design Storage Allowance

DSDMIP Department of State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning

DTMR Department of Transport and Main Roads

E Endangered

EA Environmental Authority

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EC Electrical Conductivity

EEO Equal Employment Opportunity

EILs Ecological Investigation Levels

EIS Environmental Impact Statement

ELAM Emergency and Long-Term Accommodation Moranbah

EM Electromagnetic

EMR Environmental Management Register

ENM Environmental Noise Model

EO Act Environmental Offsets Act 2014

EO Regulation Environmental Offsets Regulation 2014

EOW End Of Waste

EP Equivalent Person

EP Act Environmental Protection Act 1994

EP Regulation Environmental Protection Regulations 2019

EPBC Act Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cwlth)

EPC Exploration Permit for Coal

EPP Environmental Protection Policies

EPP (Noise) Environmental Protection (Noise) Policy 2019

EPP Water Environmental Protection (Water and Wetland Biodiversity) Policy 2019

EPP(Air) Environmental Protection (Air) Policy, 2019

ERAs Environmentally Relevant Activities

ERC Estimated Rehabilitation Cost

ERE Endangered Regional Ecosystem

ERF Emissions Reduction Fund

ERT Electrical Resistivity Tomography

ERT Emergency Response Team

ERTL Emergency Response Team Leader

ESA Environmentally Sensitive Area

ESC Erosion and Sediment Control

ESCP Erosion and Sediment Control Plan

ESP Exchangeable Sodium Percentage

EVs environmental values

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exch. Ca/Mg Exchangeable Calcium To Magnesium Ratios

Ex-pit spoil Ex-pit spoil has the same meaning as out of pit dump and out of pit overburden dump

Explosives Act Explosive Act 1999

FIFO Fly In Fly Out

Fitzroy Basin WRP Water Plan (Fitzroy Basin) 2011

FRP Filterable Reactive Phosphorus

FRR Final Rehabilitation Report

FSV Full Supply Volume

FTC Failure to Contain

FTE Full Time Equivalent

GAB Great Artesian Basin

GAI Geochemical Abundance Index

GDE Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

GDEMMP Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem Monitoring and Management Plan

GED General Environmental Duty

GHG Greenhouse Gas

Gilgai Melon hole

GJ Giga Joules

GMA Groundwater Management Area

GQAL Good Quality Agricultural Land

GRP Gross Regional Product

GSP Gross State Product

GTIA TMR (2018) Guide to Traffic Impact Assessment

GTIA PIA TMR (2018) Guide to Traffic Impact Assessment Practice Note: Pavement Impact Assessment

GVA Gross Value Add

HAP Housing and Accommodation Plan

HCWP Health and Community Wellbeing Plan

Head difference Vertical height difference

HEV High Ecological Value

HILs Health Investigation Levels

HQ Habitat Quality

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HQS Habitat Quality Scoring

HRA High Risk Area

IAS Initial Advice Statement

ICMM International Council on Mining and Metals

IECA International Erosion Control Association (Australasia)

IESC Independent Expert Scientific Committee

IO Input-output

In-pit spoil In-pit spoil has the same meaning as in-pit overburden dump or in-pit dump

IP Coal Stanmore IP Coal Pty Ltd

IP South Stanmore IP South Pty Ltd

IPM Isaac Plains Mine

IQQM Integrated Quantity-Quality Model

IRC Isaac Regional Council

IRR Internal Rate of Return

Isaac fault Regional scale reverse structure

Isaac River Sub-basin EVs and WQO’s

Isaac River Sub-basin Environmental Values and Water Quality Objectives Basin No. 130 (part), including all waters of the Isaac River Sub-basin (including Connors River), September 2011

ISO 31000 AS/NZSS ISO 31000:2009 Risk Management – Principles and Guidelines

JORC Code Australasian Code for Reporting of Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves

LA1 A weighted noise level exceeded 1% of the time, representing the typical upper noise level

LA10 A weighted noise level exceeded 10% of the time, representing the typical upper noise level

LA90 A weighted noise level exceeded 90% of the time, representing the background noise level

LAeq The A-weighted equivalent continuous, or logarithmic average, noise level over a defined time period either measured or predicted at a specific location

LAeq,adj,15min A weighted equivalent noise level measured in decibels over a period of 15 minutes and adjusted for tonality

LAI Leaf Area Index

LBIPP Local Business and Industry Procurement Plan

LGA local government area

LOR Limit of Reporting

LOS Levels of Service

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Lot 17 SP261431 Morambah stations

Lot 5 GV132 Wotonga station

Low Frequency Noise Guidelines

Draft Ecoaccess Guideline for the Assessment of Low Frequency Noise (DES, November 2004)

LWP Leaf Water Potential

LULUCF Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry

m3 Cubic Metres

MCA Minerals Council of Australia

MDL Mineral Development Licence

MDSS Moranbah and District Social Services

MERCP Act Mineral and Energy Resources (Common Provisions) Act 2014

MERFP Act Mineral and Energy (Financial Provisioning) Act 2017

Metallurgical Steel making

Mg Magnesium

MIA Mine Infrastructure Area

MIC Maximum Instantaneous Charge

MIWRP Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday Regional Plan

ML Mining Lease or Mega Litres

ML/day Mega litres per day

MLAs Mining Lease Applications

MLs Mining Leases

Mm3 Million cubic metres

MNES Matters of National Environmental Significance

MOU Memorandum of understanding

MOVs Maximum operating volumes

MPA Maximum Potential Acidity

MR Act Mineral Resources Act 1989

Mpa Megapascals

MRL Mandatory Reporting Level

MSDS Material Safety Data Sheet

MSES Matters of State Environmental Significance

Mt Million Tonnes

Mtpa Million tonnes per annum

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MWD Mine Water Dam

N Nitrogen

Na Sodium

NAF Non-Acid Forming

NAPP Net Acid Producing Potential

NATA National Association of Testing Authorities

NC Act Nature Conservation Act 1992

NC Regulation Nature Conservation (Wildlife Management) Regulation 2006

NDVI Normalised Difference Vegetation Index

NEPC, 2003 National Environment Protection Measure (NEPM) for Ambient Air Quality

NGA National Greenhouse Accounts

NGER Act National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007

NGOs Non-Government Organisations

NOx Oxides of nitrogen

NPI National pollutant Inventory

NPV Net Present Value

NT Act Native Title Act 1993 (Cth)

OCG Office of the Coordinator-General

OGIA Office of Groundwater Impact Assessment

OPSIM Operational Simulation Model

P Phosphorus

PAAs Priority Agricultural Areas

PAF Potentially Acid Forming

PAHs Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

PAWC Plant Available Water Capacity

PCBs Polychlorinated Biphenyls

PET Plecoptera / Ephemeroptera / Trichoptera

PL Petroleum Lease

Planning Act Planning Act 2016

PLAs Priority Living Areas

PM10 particulate matter with a diameter less than 10 micrometres

PM2.5 particulate matter with a diameter less than 2.5 micrometres

PMF Probable Maximum Flood

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PMP Probable Maximum Precipitation

PNCG Planning for Noise Control Guideline (DES, July 2004)

PPE Personal Protective Equipment

PPL Pipeline Licence

PPV peak particle velocity

PRCP Progressive Rehabilitation and Closure Plan

PRR Progressive Rehabilitation Report

Psi Pounds Per Square Inch

Pumped hydro pump hydro-electrical

PV Present Value

Q1,000 Flood event with a 0.1% annual exceedance probability

Qa Quaternary Alluvium

QEOP Queensland Environmental Offsets Policy

QH Act Queensland Heritage Act 1992

Qr Residual Colluvium

QRC Queensland Resources Council

QTRIP TMR Queensland Transport and Roads Investment Program 2018-19 to 2021-22

Quarry Reserve Lot 8 GV196

QWOG Queensland Water Quality Guidelines 2009

RC Regional catchment

RCP4.5 Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5

RE Regional Ecosystem

REDD Regional Ecosystem Description Database

Rehabilitation Guideline

Rehabilitation requirements for mining resource activities (ESR/2016/1975 formerly EM1122)

REMP Receiving Environment Monitoring Program

RIDA Regional Interests Development Authority

RMP Road Use Management Plan

RMS Roads and Maritime Service

ROM Run of Mine

RoQ Rest of Queensland

RPDM Volume 3 TMR (2006) Road Planning and Design Manual (Edition 2) – Volume 3

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RPDM Volume 3: Part 4A

TMR (2014) Road Planning and Design Manual (2nd Edition) – Volume 3: Supplement to Austroads Guide to Road Design Part 4A

RPEQ Registered Professional Engineer Queensland

RPI Act Regional Planning Interests Act 2014

RPP Riverine Protection Permit

RUSLE Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation

SAR Standard Axle Repetitions

Saturated zone The phreatic zone

SC Act Soil Conservation Act 1986

SCAs Strategic Cropping Areas

SCL Strategic Cropping Land

SCR State Controlled Roads

SDPWO Act State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971

SEAs Strategic Environmental Areas

Secure Difficult to change or alter

Selenium Se

SIA Social Impact Assessment

SIA Guideline Coordinator-General’s (CG’s) SIA Guideline (DSDMIP, 2018)

SIGNAL 2 Stream Invertebrate Grade Number – Average Level

SIMP Social Impact Management Plan

SME Small-To-Medium Enterprises

SMP Site Management Plan

SMP Species Management Program

SO4 Sulfate

Socio-economic Social and economic

Soil Subsoil

SOP Safe Operating Procedure

SOx Oxides of sulfur

SRI Significant Residual Impact

SRM Act Stock Route Management Act 2002

SRMS Scaled Root Mean Square

SSE Site Senior Executive

SSRC Act Strong and Sustainable Resource Communities Act (2017)

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Stanmore Stanmore Coal Limited

STEM Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths

t/ha Tonnes Per Hectare

t/ha/yr tonnes per hectare per year

TARP Trigger Action Response Plan

tCO2-e Tonnes of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent

TDS Total Dissolved Solids

TEC Threatened Ecological Communities

TEP Transitional Environmental Programs

Tertiary sediments Thin Cainozoic surficial sediments

the ASC The Australian Soil Classification System

the Audit Queensland Agricultural Land Audit

The Community Plan Community Strategic Plan 2035

The Guidelines Australian Groundwater Modelling Guidelines

The Index Social-Economic Indexes of Areas

The Manual Manual for Assessing Consequence Categories and Hydraulic Performance of Structures

The Project Isaac Downs Project

The Proponent IP South

The safeguard mechanism National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Safeguard Mechanism) Rule 2015

TI Act Transport Infrastructure Act 1994

TMP Traffic Management Plan

TMR Department of Transport and Main Roads

ToR Terms of Reference

TORUM Act Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 (Qld)

TPH Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons

TRH Total Recoverable Hydrocarbons

TSP Total Suspended Particles

TSS Total Suspended Solids

UN United Nations

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s

UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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Unsaturated zone The vadose zone

US EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency

USACE Unites States Army Corps of Engineers

USBR United States Bureau of Reclamation

UWIRs Underground Water Impact Reports

V Vulnerable

VM Act Vegetation Management Act 1999

VM status VM Act Status

VWP Vibrating Wire Piezometer

Water Act Water Act 2000

WAV Worker Accommodation Village

WHS Act Work Health and Safety Act 2011

WHS Regulation Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011

WIMARQ Women In Mining and Resources Queensland

Winchester Downs station Lot 8 SP277384

WMP Workforce Management Plan

WQG Water Quality Guidelines

WQO Water Quality Objectives

WRR Act Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011

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