ANNUAL AUDIT AND COMPLIANCE REPORT ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION LICENCE

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1 ANNUAL AUDIT AND OMPLIANE REPORT ENVIRONMENT PROTETION LIENE LIENE NUMBER WDL REPORTING PERIOD November 2013 July 2014 Please a copy of your completed AAR to pollution@nt.gov.au ALL Licensees must check their Licence Details are correct. If there are changes to any of these details you must advise the Executive Director in accordance with the conditions of your Waste Discharge Licence. Licensee Details Legal Entity Name: ABN: rocodile Gold Australia Operation Pty Ltd Registered Business Address: 1/48 Woods Street, Darwin ity, NT 0801 Postal Address: PO Box 469 Darwin ity NT 0800 ontact Person: Jason Morin Position Title: General Manager NT Operations ontact Details: (08) b/h: (08) jmorin@crocgold.com Location of Premises Name: Pine reek Project Area MLN13 and MLN1130 Address: Old Stuart Highway Pine reek NT 0847 Telephone Numbers: (08) b/h: (08) hour emergency response ontact Person: Telephone Numbers: Licensed Action rocodile Gold Emergency ontact Line 24 hrs (08) Discharge of wastewaters from the rocodile Gold Australia Operation (GAO) Pine reek Project Area (MLN13 and MLN1130).

2 AUDIT AND OMPLIANE REPORT WASTE DISHARGE LIENE ompliance with Licence onditions The Licensee must notify the Administering Agency within 24 hours if there are No change to the 1 changes to the details of the 24-hour emergency contact as provided on page one of this Licence. emergency contact number. N/A N/A 2 The Licensee must notify the Administering Agency within 14 days if there are changes to the Licensee details shown on page one of this Licence. hange in business address Letter of notification submitted to EPA, dated 29 July 2014 This change was effective from the 1 3 The Licensee must notify the Administering Agency within 14 days after ceasing to conduct the activity to which this Licence relates. No hange N/A N/A 4 The Licensee must notify the Administering Agency prior to making any operational change that will cause, or is likely to cause, an increase in the potential for environmental harm, environmental nuisance, material environmental harm or serious environmental harm. 5 The Licensee must cause a copy of this Licence to be available at all times: 5.1 on the Licensee's Australian website; and 5.2 at the Location. No hange N/A N/A Licence available on site in hard copy, on each site server and on the intranet. License placed on rocodile Gold orp intranet. License on file at GAO s osmo site Environment Office. Licence available on site in hard copy, on each site server and on the intranet. License on rocodile Gold orp intranet. Site records. Upon commencem ent Upon commencem ent Upon commencem ent 6 Where this Licence requires the provision of any notice, document or other correspondence to the Administering Agency, the relevant contact is: Environment Operations Unit Acknowledged Acknowledged N/A Page 2 of 9

3 AUDIT AND OMPLIANE REPORT WASTE DISHARGE LIENE Physical Address: Level 2 Darwin Plaza, 41 Smith Street Mall, Darwin NT Postal Address: GPO Box 3675, Darwin NT environmentops.nretas@nt.gov.au All notices, documents or other correspondence required to be provided pursuant to this Licence must be provided in both hard and electronic form unless otherwise specified as a condition of this Licence. OPERATIONAL The Licensee must, without limiting any other condition of this Licence in conducting the Activity do all things reasonable and practicable to ensure the Activity does not adversely affect the Declared Beneficial Uses and objective as declared from time to time, including those applying to: opperfield reek The Licensee must maintain and implement a communication which includes a strategy for communicating with members of the public who are likely to have a genuine interest in or be affected by the Activity. The Licensee must maintain a log of each complaint, made in relation to the Activity, to any persons involved in the Activity. The log must include details of the following: The date and time of the complaint; the contact details of the complainant if known, or where no details are provided a note to that effect; The nature of the complaint; the nature of events giving rise to the complaint; Prevailing weather conditions at the time of the incident; and the action taken in relation to the complaint, including any follow-up contact with the complainant; and if no action was taken, why no action was taken. Acknowledged Acknowledged N/A Acknowledged ommunication developed. Maintained complaints log. Refer to of Licence Report. ommunicatio n maintained and implemented. omplaints log, 11 DISHARGES AND EMISSIONS This Licence authorises wastewater to be discharged from the Authorised Discharge Point (s) identified in Table 1. Table 1 Waste water was only discharged via the authorised discharge points. Page 3 of 9

4 AUDIT AND OMPLIANE REPORT WASTE DISHARGE LIENE Authorised Discharge Point Description Location PPWD PK04 Pine reek Process Water Dam at the Weir Boards (MLN 13 Influences). Pine reek MLN 13 Eastern Tenement Boundary. Downstream of Sth Ghandi s (MLN 1130) and Enterprise Pit (MLN 13). Latitude: º Longitude: º Latitude: º Longitude: º The Licensee must, at Monitoring Points PK06 and PK03 apply the interim site specific trigger as listed in Table 4-5 of the rocodile Gold Australia Operation Pine reek Project Area Monitoring Report and Appendix 1 of this Licence. ISSTV s applied as per Appendix. Wastewater(s) discharged from the authorised discharge point(s) must not: ontain any visible matter, floating oil and grease or petroleum hydrocarbon or scum or litter or other objectionable matter; ause or generate odours which would adversely affect the use of the receiving water; ause algal blooms; ause visible change in the behaviour of fish or other aquatic organisms; ause mortality of fish or other aquatic organisms; or ause adverse impacts on ts. MONITORING The licensee must for all terrestrial sampling points required by this Licence; 14.1 install, maintain and provide appropriate identification signage so that they are easily identifiable at all times; and 14.2 maintain safe access and egress, as is reasonably practicable. For each sample required to be collected by this Licence the following information must be recorded and retained: The date(s) on which the sample was taken; Wastewater discharged did not contain or cause any of the listed. Monitoring sites appropriately identified and accessed. The listed was recorded and retained EMR and Site records. Page 4 of 9

5 AUDIT AND OMPLIANE REPORT WASTE DISHARGE LIENE The times(s) at which the sample was collected; The point(s) at which the sample was taken; The name of the person who collected the sample; The chain of custody forms relating to the sample(s); the field measurements and/or analytical results for the sample; and laboratory QA/Q documentation. Surface water monitoring conducted in accordance with Appendix 1. Sample 16 Surface water monitoring must be conducted in accordance with Appendix Sediment monitoring must be conducted in accordance with Appendix Biologic must be conducted in accordance with Appendix 3 and the Biological Monitoring Environment Management for Pine reek Project Area 2012 dated 4 March must be conducted in accordance with the al Monitoring Plan for Pine reek Project Area 2012 document dated 6 March 2012 or revisions approved in accordance with condition 20 of this Licence ( the Ecotox Plan ). location PK06B was excluded during the latter wet season (March) due to access issues. Sediment monitoring conducted in accordance with Appendix 2. Biologic conducted in accordance with Appendix 3 (with the exception of PK04 due to the disturbed nature of the site and lack of suitable habitat) and the Biological Monitoring Environment Management for Pine reek Project Area 2012 dated 4 March 2012 (with the exception of PK06B due to accessibility issues). al monitoring conducted in accordance with Page 5 of 9 Licence

6 AUDIT AND OMPLIANE REPORT WASTE DISHARGE LIENE amendment during However not onsidered during 2014 due to wet compliant as season conditions, conducted timing and during the requirements (refer to licencing EMR and report for details). The Licensee must submit a proposal to amend the Ecotox Plan dated 6 March 2012 by 31 January 2013 to include an assessment of wastewater from the Authorised Discharge Points, PPWD and PK04. The proposal to amend must: include as a minimum, in stream monitoring points upstream and downstream of the Authorised Discharge Point PK04; be approved by the Administering Agency noting that the Administering Agency may require the Licensee to revise, amend and/or resubmit the proposed ; and be implemented within 10 Business Days of receiving written approval of the from the Administering Agency. The Licensee must cause a copy of current al Monitoring Plan to be available on the Licensee s Australian website. REORDING AND REPORTING 22 All records required to be kept by this Licence must be in a legible format. Placed on rocodile Gold orp intranet. All records required kept by this Licence are in a legible format 23 The Licensee must keep records of all non-compliances with this Licence. No non compliances 24 The Licensee must as soon as practicable and in any case within 24 hours notify the Administering Agency of non-compliances with this Licence. No non compliances Page 6 of 9 Site records. 31 January 2013

7 AUDIT AND OMPLIANE REPORT WASTE DISHARGE LIENE The Licensee must immediately and in any case within 24 hours notify the No potential or actual Administering Agency of any potential or actual environmental harm or pollution by environmental harm or contacting the Pollution Hotline on telephone number and ing pollution d and Zn ISSTV s were exceeded at PK06 and Zn at PK03 on three or The Licensee must notify the Administering Agency in writing when the qualitative and quantitative parameters set out in Appendix 1 of this Licence are exceeded on three or more consecutive sampling and/or monitoring occasions. The written notification must include: an assessment of risk posed by the discharge; and 26.2 details of the action undertaken to mitigate the risk The Licensee must comply with the requirements of section 14 of the Waste Management and Pollution ontrol Act. The Licensee must provide to the Administering Agency a Monitoring Report, in accordance with the following schedule: 12 month Period Report Submission at the end of: December 2012 October 2013 November 2013 November 2013 July 2014 more consecutive sampling and/or monitoring occasions. SSTV s are utilised as trigger values and not as non-compliance with exceedences of the SSTV s. Risk assessment incorporated into the EMR and Details included into the EMR and omplied with the requirements of section 14 of the Waste Management and Pollution ontrol Act. Reports provided by specified reporting submission due dates for each reporting Page 7 of 9 Details included in the of licence November 2013 EMR and 28.1 be prepared in accordance with the requirements for a Monitoring Report identified on November

8 AUDIT AND OMPLIANE REPORT WASTE DISHARGE LIENE pages of the document: Guidelines for in Environmental Issues 2013 EMR and available from: data/assets/pdf_file/0009/14031/consultants_reporting_ environmental_issues.pdf 2013 EMR and Include a trend analysis and interpretation of monitoring results (field data and analytical parameters) required as a condition of this Licence. The Licensee must complete the attached Annual Audit and ompliance Report (AAR), Appendix 4 and provide to the Administering Agency a minimum of 20 Business Days prior to the anniversary of the commencement date of this Licence, for each year of this Licence. The Licensee must provide to the Administering Agency a minimum of 20 Business Days prior to the expiry date of this Licence a Licence Report. The Licence Report must include : Results of the ecotoxicologic program together with a detailed interpretation of the results; and Revised site specific trigger values including all supporting documentation that relates to the derivation of the trigger values AAR s completed for each reporting 2014 EMR combined with report agreed by NT EPA as per correspondence on the 19 th May 2014). al results and interpretation included in the 2014 EMR combined with end of licence SSTV s revised and included in the 2014 EMR combined with Attachments to the 2013 EMR and August report submitted end of August report submitted end of August report submitted end of August EMR and end of licence report submitted end of EMR and end of licence report submitted end of EMR and end of licence report submitted end of. N = Non-ompliant = ompliant P = Partial ompliance Page 8 of 9

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