Correspondence Assessment Of The Mount Pleasant Optimisation Project - EPBC 2020/8735.

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Project meeting records document DCCEEW's assessment of the Mount Pleasant Optimisation Project (EPBC 2020/8735), a coal mining expansion. Between June 13-27, 2024, departmental officers and MACH Energy discussed EPBC approval conditions covering two threatened species—Delma impar and Delma vescolineata (legless lizards)—and the White Box-Yellow Box-Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland threatened ecological community. Key issues included clarifying project area definitions, distinguishing between the two Delma species, defining performance measures and trigger levels for environmental incidents, aligning offset credit requirements with state conditions, and accommodating potential minor road alignment changes. The department required updated environmental history checks and standardised definitions for "incident" and "harm." By late June, discussions focused on finalising draft offset conditions and performance measure language, though the ministerial decision-maker