The federal government’s $47 million commitment to roll-out the national Digital Environmental Assessment Program (DEAP) is an important step to more timely and transparent environmental assessments and approvals.
The digital data lodgement platform will integrate Commonwealth, state and territory requirements and will help reduce duplication, and unnecessary complexity that delay minerals projects.
These reforms will support a more efficient assessment process, more consistent decision making and better environmental outcomes.
It will also help build community confidence by increasing transparency around project approval processes.
Practical reforms like DEAP are integral to creating investment certainty, supporting regional jobs, businesses and the communities that benefit from minerals development.
The minerals industry has long-advocated for a consistent and coordinated nationally streamlined digital process approach to environmental data, assessment and approval processes.
