Environmental Management Charge Fee Schedule

(Charges are valid as at 1 April 2007)

• Full EMC visitors
• Part-day EMC visitors
• Exemptions
• Beach hire
• Semi-submersibles, glass-bottom boats and sight-seeing flights
• Installations and tourist facilities
• Underwater observatories
• Resorts on Commonwealth islands
• Discharge of sewage
• Non-tourist operations

Full EMC visitors

Permit holder to collect from each visitor $5.00* per day for

• Trips of 3 hours or more
• Trips entering the Marine Park before 5.00 pm
• Trips leaving the Marine Park after 6.00 am
• First 3 days of an extended charter
• Fourth or subsequent days of an extended charter if visitor participates in an activity with different operator

*An increase of the full day EMC from $5.00 to $5.50 will take effect on 1 April 2010.

Part-day EMC visitors

Permit holder to collect from each visitor $2.50* per day for

• Trips less than 3 hours
• The first day of trip entering the Marine Park after 5.00 pm
• The last day of trips leaving the Marine Park before 6.00 am

*An increase of the part day EMC from $2.50 to $2.75 will take effect on 1 April 2010.

Exemptions

No EMC is paid by the following visitors

1. Free of charge (FOC) visitors who are carried free of charge and are:
• Children less than 4 years old
• Beneficiaries of registered charities
• School supervised school group
• Tourism industry trade familiarisations
• Media reporters, broadcasters reporting on Marine Park issues
2. Passengers who have already paid the full EMC for that day to another operator.
3. Passengers who are on their 4th and subsequent days of an extended trip with one operator, providing the visitor has paid the maximum charge of $15.00.
4. Transfer passengers who transit the Marine Park and the permit holder does not provide any tourism activities for 2 hours after disembarkation.

Beach hire

Charges are based on what you have available for hire, not on what you hire out. The permit holder must pay the EMC even when there was no activity.

1. Non-motorised Beach Hire
• less than 6 pieces of equipment: $12 per quarter
• 6 or more pieces of equipment: $25 per quarter
2. Dinghy Hire
• less than 6 dinghies: $50 per quarter
• 6 or more dinghies: $12 per dinghy per quarter
3. Motorised Watersports
• 2 person jet boats: $25 per quarter
• motorised equipment excluding jet boats: $62 per quarter
• motorised equipment including jet boats: $87 per quarter

Semi-submersibles, glass-bottom boats and sight-seeing flights

Permit holder to collect from each visitor 40 cents per trip unless they have paid $5.00 for the day.

Installations and tourist facilities

Permit holder must pay a charge of:

1. Pontoons
   
   • less than or equal to 40 square metres: $90 per quarter
   • greater than 40 square metres: $180 per quarter
2. Floating hotels: $280 per quarter.
3. Marinas: $380 per quarter from date of construction or operation.
4. Mariculture: $500 per quarter for up to 10 hectares, plus $200 per quarter for each additional 10 hectares.

Underwater observatories

(other than those attached to pontoons)

Permit holder must pay a charge of $130 per quarter.

Resorts on Commonwealth islands

Permit holder to collect $5.00 per day from visitors subject to the part-day or greater than 3 days exemption.

Discharge of sewage

Permit holder must pay a charge of

1. Tertiary sewage: $400 per quarter
2. Primary or secondary treated sewage: $400 per quarter plus $4 x V x (N+P) where V is total volume in megalitres, N is milligrams of nitrogen per litre and P is milligrams of phosphorus per litre unless not more than 5% of annual volume is discharged.

Non-tourist operations

1. Vessel chartering permit holders to collect $2 per visitor per trip. Visitors only pay for the first day of an extended trip.
2. Vending operations permit holders must pay $30 per metre of the length of the vessel per quarter.