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Macquarie Coal Complex Community Consultative Committee Meeting

Minutes

Location: Presentation Emailed to Committee Members Date: 7th May 2020 Time: 3:55pm Email Distribution List: Wendy Harrison (WH) – LMCC Councillor (Chair) Binky Rominski (BR) ‐ Community Representative Emma McDonald (EM) – Community Representative Tony Williams (TW) – Community Representative Pam Moroney (PM) – New Community Representative Copy to: Ben Clibborn (BC) ‐ OCAL Environment and Community Manager Distributed by: Allison Gray (AG) – OCAL Environment and Community Officer

• 1. Review of previous minutes

 A copy of the meeting minutes from the CCC meeting on 5 November 2019 was emailed to the Macquarie Coal Complex Community Consultative Committee Members on 7 May 2020 along with the presentation (May 2020).

• 2. Presentation Agenda
• Previous Minutes / Action Status
• Operational (Works) Update
• Subsidence Management and Monitoring Update
• Environment and Community Performance
• Mine Closure Update
• General Business
• Questions
• 3. Review of actions

 Two actions from the previous meeting held on 7 November 2019  AG to give PM CCC nomination forms (Code of Conduct Agreement – Members, Declaration of Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Interests and Nomination Form – Local Community Representative). Forms completed during meeting.  AG to send PM’s forms to WH so they can be submitted to the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE).  Both actions have been completed, CCC member forms emailed to WH on 2nd December 2019.

• 4. Operational Update

 Tailings Dam capping Stage 1 almost completed  Subsidence remediation ongoing  Westside Northern Rehabilitation received official sign off in 2020

Macquarie Coal Complex Community Consultative Committee Meeting

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 Contour drains repaired in Westside Southern Rehabilitation  Macquarie Coal submitted and received approval from the Resource Regulator to apply a layer of fly ash to the surface of areas of the tailings where the crust strength was not adequate to commence capping

• 5. Subsidence Management and Monitoring Update

 Subsidence remediation in the Sugarloaf State Conservation Area are on going.  Approximately 44% of subsidence cracks have been filled as at 1 May 2020.  Green cracks on the adjacent map have been filled, red cracks are yet to be filled

• 6. Environment and Community Performance

 Water quality results presented, no exceedances of monitoring criteria,  There have been no exceedances of noise monitoring criteria, Macquarie Coal will seek to have their licence varied to remove the requirement to undertake noise monitoring in 2020  There has been one reportable environmental incident and no community complaints since the last CCC meeting in November 2019.

• Incident detail: During the monthly collection of depositional dust gauges, it was

noted that the dust gauge (EPA Point 6) adjacent the Teralba Bowling Club was missing, therefore no dust data was recorded for the month of April 2020.

• A new dust gauge was installed later that day. An incident report was completed

and this non-compliance will be reported in the 2020 annual return and Macquarie Coal Complex Annual Review.

• 7. Mine Closure Update

 Continued subsidence remediation works in the Sugarloaf State Conservation Area  Continue tailings dam capping including the importation of fly ash  Westside improvements to Southern Rehabilitation

• 8. General Business.

Nil

• 9. Questions

Questions emailed by WH on 14 May 2020 Q: With Westside Northern Rehabilitation receiving official sign off, does that mean it is fully completed? (p.5) A: Yes, no more works to complete and we can now relinquish the mining title over the land (ie hand back to the state) and the land becomes normal/unencumbered land. Q: What is the expected completion date for Westside Southern Rehabilitation? (p.15) A: Approximately 50% of the southern rehab of Westside we plan to submit for sign off over the coming 12 months, however, the other areas may take a few more years to get to the

Macquarie Coal Complex Community Consultative Committee Meeting

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point where sign off can be granted as juvenile trees need to sprout from the dropped seeds as the trees get older. Q: What is the extent of the subsidence remediation works in the Sugarloaf State Conservation Area? (p.15) A: Approximately 50% of subsidence remediation is completed in the Sugarloaf State Conservation Area and we plan to complete the works mid 2021. Q: Any idea what happened to the dust gauge adjacent to the Teralba Bowling Club (p.21) and has it happened before? A: We think the dust gauge has been stolen because the bowling club has been closed due to COVID‐19 ie no one around, so with it opening back up we may not have any future issues. This is the first time this gauge has been stolen.

10. Actions Arising from the Meeting  Nil

Next meeting planned for November 2020 pending COVID‐19 restrictions