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APPENDIX 2 – GLOSSARY, ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
STANMORE IP SOUTH PTY LTD
ISAAC DOWNS PROJECT
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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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Acronym / Abbreviation
Full wording / Explanation
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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Acronym / Abbreviation
Full wording / Explanation
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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Acronym / Abbreviation
Full wording / Explanation
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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Acronym / Abbreviation
Full wording / Explanation
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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Acronym / Abbreviation
Full wording / Explanation
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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Acronym / Abbreviation
Full wording / Explanation
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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Acronym / Abbreviation
Full wording / Explanation
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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Acronym / Abbreviation
Full wording / Explanation
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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Acronym / Abbreviation
Full wording / Explanation
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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Acronym / Abbreviation
Full wording / Explanation
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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Acronym / Abbreviation
Full wording / Explanation
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