Documents Regarding Lake Vermont Meadowbrook Decision Brief - EPBC 2019/8485.

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The Lake Vermont Meadowbrook Coal Mine Project (EPBC 2019/8485) in Queensland received departmental approval recommendation across all controlling provisions: listed threatened species and communities, migratory species, and water resources impacts. The decision brief, signed 19 December 2024 but exceeding the statutory 12 June 2024 deadline, indicates the department assessed the proposed action would not have unacceptable impacts on matters of national environmental significance provided conditions were met. The proponent proposed an Offset Area Management Plan to compensate for residual significant impacts on six protected entities: Brigalow and Poplar Box threatened ecological communities, and four species (Ornamental Snake, Greater Glider, Koala, Squatter Pigeon). The project triggers reporting under the Safeguard Mechanism. The disclosure includes the approval decision package, legal considerations, public comments responses, conditions of approval, and notification letters,