For section 207(1) of the Act, the refusal period is 10 business days after the last of the following events to happen--
(a) if an EIS requirement has been made for the application--the completion of the EIS process;
(b) the end of the assessment period mentioned in section 205(3) of the Act;
(c) if, before the end of the assessment period, a relevant mining tenement has, under the State Development Act, part 4, been declared to be, or include, a significant project--the preparation of the Coordinator-General's report for the project;
(d) if an EIS assessment report or EM plan assessment report states that a submitted EM plan does not comply with section 203 of the Act--an EM plan assessment report being given to the applicant about the submitted EM plan, after it has been amended, stating that it complies with section 203 of the Act.