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FOI disclosure log

The table below contains requests from January 2018 to present for the department, relevant minister, and a number of agencies previously associated with the former Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment.

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FOI Reference	Release Date Sort ascending	Scope of Request	Agency	Documents Released
180610	12 July 2018	The letter written by Mark Beaufoy, then of DLA Piper Australia on behalf of Intrapac Projects to Cameron Allen and Naomi O’Brien, then of the Department on 13 May 2011, entitled “Residential development: 115 Westmeadows Lane, Truganina Vic, EPBC Act reference no. 2010/5791”. The email written by Department staff on 30 May 2011 to DLA Piper in relation to “Residential development: 115 Westmeadows Lane, Truganina Vic, EPBC Act reference no. 2010/5791”; and If the email of point 2 is not the response to the letter of point 1, any communication written by Department staff in response to the letter of point 1.	Department of the Environment and Energy	180610.pdf
180608	9 July 2018	Correspondence dated 1 December 2017 to 7 June 2018 between the Department and the office of the Minister for Environment and Energy that mentions proposed or agreed provisioning of funding (including loans) to the Antarctic Science Foundation for purposes related to the establishment or initial operations of the Antarctic Science Foundation.	Department of the Environment and Energy	180608.pdf
180513	9 July 2018	Any and all documents relating to Australia's national greenhouse gas inventory for the June 2017 quarter and any and all documents relating to Australia's national greenhouse gas inventory for the September 2017 quarter.	Department of the Environment and Energy	180513.pdf
180607	5 July 2018	Documents relating to any meetings between any staff from the Department of Environment and Energy and Senator Barry O’Sullivan (or his representatives) that relate to land clearing or agriculture development since January 2015. Including Diary entries and meeting requests; notes of meetings, including file notes and email correspondence; and, documents exchanged in the course of, or as a result of the meetings.	Department of the Environment and Energy	180607%2520document%2520set_redacted.pdf
180602	2 July 2018	The first and (if they are different) last minute or other internal document(s) which record the decision to sell environmental water in the Gwydir valley as announced publicly in January 2018.	Department of the Environment and Energy	180602.pdf
180408	12 June 2018	[Item 1] Any briefings and/or correspondence between the Department of the Environment and Energy and the Minister or Assistant Minister (or their representative) which relates to the establishment of the EPBC Agriculture review. The dates for this request are for documents created or sent between January 1 2018 and April 19 2018.	Department of the Environment and Energy	180408.pdf
180502	8 June 2018	[Item 1] Correspondence from the World Heritage Centre in June 2017 regarding EPBC 2011/5979 [Item 2] The Environment and Energy Department’s response to the World Heritage Centre in July 2017 regarding EPBC 2011/5979	Department of the Environment and Energy	180502.pdf
180501	7 June 2018	Comments from GBRMPA on the proposed decision to approve EPBC 2011/5979 about the offset management strategy A copy of the independent audit of compliance criteria and reporting for Condition 37 of EPBC 2011/5979	Department of the Environment and Energy	180501.pdf
180401	5 June 2018	Documents that were included in the reconsideration decision brief outlined in the Statement of Reasons provided to the Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee on the 26 September 2017. This Statement of Reasons relates to the Colton Coal Mine Project, Maryborough, Queensland (EPBC 2010/5625): Item B: Referral decision briefing package (dated 6 October 2017) - excludes publicly available documents Item Dl: Response from New Hope Item D2: additional flora and fauna survey reports Item D3: Commencement status advice Item E: Ministerial comments Item El: Response from Geoscience Australia Item E2: Response from Qld EHP Item F: Departmental advice on the request for reconsideration Item Fl: Advice from the Office of Water Science Item F2: Advice from the Wetlands Section	Department of the Environment and Energy	180401.pdf
180413	30 May 2018	All calibration data for the four track counters installed on the Ayers Rock summit trail. Refer to “Analysis of Uluru visitor climb data and monitoring methods” by Prof Susanne Becken Griffith University. Feb 2017	Director of National Parks	180413_0.pdf