Queensland Environmental Harm Notification or Environmental Authority Incident Report

Populated environmental incident records under the Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld): duty-to-notify reports of serious or material environmental harm (s 320B employee to employer and s 320D employer written notice to the administering authority, each within 24 hours; s 320DA owner, occupier or auditor), transitional environmental program (TEP) documents (ss 330-344E), environmental authority (EA) non-compliance and incident reports, and incidents at regulated structures such as ash dams and tailings or process-water dams (assessed by consequence category). The target is an internal incident notification, investigation or compliance report with a filled incident date, location, contaminant, release quantity or EA field. Lodged EA conditions, the EA public register and published monitoring results (s 540 public register) are public and are decoys.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: the duty-to-notify, TEP and regulated-structure terms are statutory and appear in the Act, EA conditions and guidance, so they are discovery-only alone. Enforcement needs populated incident fields (and at 85 a release or exceedance measurement), which legislation, EA conditions and the public register lack. EA numbers are public formats and never drive a tier on their own. Published monitoring reports lodged under EA conditions can carry filled fields and measurements; "public register" wording is excluded, but a lodged report copied without that wording can still match. "Design storage allowance", "mandatory reporting level" and "register of regulated structures" are unverified and not used. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy; test values are synthetic.
Jurisdictions: au, au-qld
Regulations: Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld), Environmental Protection Regulation 2019 (Qld)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: environmental, legal, infrastructure
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 7
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:(?:notice|notification)\s+of\s+(?:serious\s+or\s+material\s+)?environmental\s+harm|serious\s+or\s+material\s+environmental\s+harm|(?:section|s\.?)\s*320(?:DA|[BCD])|transitional\s+environmental\s+program(?:me)?|regulated\s+structure|consequence\s+category|environmental\s+incident\s+(?:notification|report)|(?:environmental\s+authority|EA)\s+(?:non-?compliance|incident)\s+(?:notification|report))\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

administering authority, 24 hours, Pollution Hotline, containment, clean-up, root cause, corrective action, ash dam, seepage

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Notification of serious or material environmental harm (s 320D) EA number: EPPR00000001 Date/time of incident: 03/09/2026 06:40 Location of release: Ash dam 2 spillway, Teston Power Station Contaminant: Ash-laden process water The overflow released an estimated 120 kL to Teston Creek. Written notice given to the administering authority within 24 hours; containment booms deployed. — s 320D notice with EA number, incident fields and release volume (intended 85)
Environmental incident report - regulated structure (consequence category: significant) Incident date: 17/08/2026 Receiving environment: Teston River tributary Seepage at the toe drain measured sulfate concentration 850 mg/L against a limit of 250 mg/L. Root cause investigation opened; corrective action due 30/09/2026. — Regulated structure seepage incident with fields, exceedance measurement and root cause (intended 85)
Section 320B notification - employee to employer Reported by: Jordan Teston, shift operator Date of incident: 21/09/2026 Oil sheen observed on the cooling water outlet channel after the transformer bund drain was left open. — s 320B employee notification with reporter and incident date (intended 75)
EA non-compliance report - Teston Power Station Condition breached: W3 (release point turbidity) Duration: approximately 6 hours — EA non-compliance report with populated condition and duration (intended 75)

Should not match

320D Duty of employer to notify. (2) The employer must, as soon as practicable but no later than 24 hours after becoming aware of the event, give written notice of the serious or material environmental harm to the administering authority. Maximum penalty-500 penalty units. — Act text (legislation decoy, excluded)
Permit Reference EPPR00000002 Permit Type Environmental Authority Permit Holder(s) Teston Energy Pty Ltd Effective Date 01/07/2015 Status Effective Condition Type Site specific Industry Electricity Activities Electricity generation Locations Teston - regulated structure conditions apply — Public EA register row (decoy)
Published monitoring data (public register) - regulated structure RS2 quarterly results Release point: W1 Turbidity 12 NTU; EC 1200 uS/cm; discharge volume 35 ML for the quarter. — Monitoring data published under s 540 (decoy, excluded)
Notification of environmental harm form Date/time of incident: __________ Location of release: [describe location] Contaminant: __________ Estimated quantity released: __________ — Blank notification form
Media release: the department has approved a transitional environmental program for the Teston ash dam after consultation on the consequence category assessment. — News / media release
The environmental authority conditions require the holder to assess each dam to determine whether it is a regulated structure and its consequence category using the manual, and to notify the administering authority within 24 hours of any release. — EA condition / guidance text (no populated fields, stays at 65)

Known false positives

The EP Act, EP Regulation, EA conditions, DETSI guidance and the regulated-structures manual. Mitigation: No populated incident fields; legislation markers are excluded, so these stay at 65 discovery or below.
The EA public register (Permit Reference, Permit Holder(s), Condition Type columns) and monitoring data published under s 540. Mitigation: EA numbers are supporting evidence only at 85; register column wording ("permit holder", "public register") is excluded. Lodged monitoring reports copied without register wording can still reach 75 on filled fields.
Workplace injury or WHS incident reports that mention an environmental authority. Mitigation: Primary requires environmental-harm, TEP, regulated-structure or EA incident wording rather than generic incident terms.