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Jilalan Rail Yard

Project overview*

EIS status	Approved with conditions
Description	Expansion of the rail yard, including two new bypass tracks, two provisioning tracks, a provisioning facility and a wagon maintenance facility.
Proponent	QR National Limited now Aurizon Holding Limited
Location/s	3 km south of Sarina. Map
Local government/s	Mackay Regional Council
Key features	two bypass tracks locomotive provisioning facility wagon maintenance facility

* Project information supplied by proponent and subject to change.

Key environmental impact statement (EIS) documents

Coordinator-General's report on EIS ( 2.67 MB), March 2008
Environmental impact statement, September 2007
- Supplementary EIS
- EIS
- Complete EIS available at State Library of Queensland (record number: 782633)
Terms of reference for EIS ( 439 KB), July 2007
Initial advice statement ( 1.85 MB), February 2007
- IAS - Appendices ( 1.44 MB)

EIS process

Read more about the EIS process.

Australian Government approval

Project not deemed a controlled action by Commonwealth Minister for the Environment.

Last updated: 09 Nov 2021