B-2 – Area 4 - Assessment of Environmental Effects 1 1. INTRODUCTION Area 4 will contain the Services Trench which will connect the new Willows Surface Facilities Area (“Willows SFA”) in Area 2, with the existing Waihi Surface Facilities Area (“Waihi SFA”) at Area 5 (see Figure 1). It will carry electricity, fibre, wastewater, and potable/raw/recycled water services within buried pipelines. This sub-Assessment of Environmental Effects (“sub-AEE”) has been prepared in support of resource consent applications by OceanaGold (New Zealand) Ltd (“OGNZL”) under the Resource Management Act 1991 (“RMA”) to authorise all necessary activities associated within Area 4. It comprises 8 sections as follows: Section 1: Is this Introduction. Section 2: Provides a description of the existing environment. Section 3: Provides a description of the proposed activities for which resource consent is sought. Section 4: Is an analysis of the resource consents required for the proposed activities under the RMA. Section 5: Provides an assessment of environmental effects associated with the proposed activities. Section 6 Outlines how the environmental effects of the proposed activities will be managed, including proposed conditions of consent. Section 7: Sets out the statutory framework against which the application has been made and is to be assessed, including an analysis of how it aligns with the key directives in the relevant planning documents. Section 8: Is a short concluding statement. .
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