RFI - Attachment 4B - Flora and Fauna Assessment Rev 5

                                                                                                                                           Native Foresters



         TABLE 6:             Infrastructure Requirements and Self-Assessment Criteria – Noosa Landfill Expansion Project Responses
Column 1:                                                                  Column 2:                                                        Column 3:
Requirements that apply to all               RESPONSE                      Government Supported Infrastructure               RESPONSE       Self-Assessment Criteria                    SELF     –
Government              Supported                                          development in a KHA that is exempt                                                                          ASSESSMENT
Infrastructure development in SEQ                                          from the Self-Assessment Criteria of                                                                         RESPONSE
                                                                           Column
1.    Where possible, development            Complies                      1.   Development in a State Development           N/A            Development in an area that is              See Table    2
      avoids fragmenting KHA within the      The clearing is on the             Area.                                                       both a KPA and a KHA                        assessment
      land to which the development          edge     of    retained                                                                        1. Where interfering with koala             below.
      applies.                               vegetation and cleared                                                                             habitat, occurs, public sector
                                             areas.                                                                                             entities, in addition to any relevant
                                                                                                                                                criteria of Column 1, must also
                                                                                                                                                self-assess against the
                                                                                                                                                requirements in Table 2.
2.    Where possible, development does       Complies                      2.   Development for a Coordinated                N/A            Development in an area that is a            N/A
      not impede or restrict the             The vegetation is an               Project.                                                    KHA outside a KPA
      movement of koalas within the land     area 1.02ha which is                                                                           2. Where interfering with koala
      to which the development applies       “jutting” into the landfill                                                                        habitat is unavoidable,
      and provides safe koala movement       site; and currently does                                                                           development in a KHA, in addition
      measures between highly                not provide a corridor                                                                             to any relevant criteria of Column
      connected patches of retained          or link from the                                                                                   1, must:
      KHA.                                   remaining vegetation                                                                               a.      minimise interfering with
                                             on site (to the east of                                                                                    koala habitat; and
                                             the landfill) to another
                                             patch of vegetation.
3.   Clearing of koala habitat trees must    Complies                      3.   Development in a declared Priority           N/A                 b.    where possible, mitigate any     N/A
     be carried out in a way that            Council will clear from            Development Area or a declared                                         impacts that interfere with
     complies with sequential clearing       the landfill towards the           Provisional Priority Development Area.                                 koala habitat values; and
     conditions.                             retained vegetation.
4. Development must ensure that:             Complies                      4.   Development that involves interfering with   N/A                 c.     where interfering with koala    N/A
     a. measures are taken in                A      Wildlife   Spotter          koala habitat to:                            Proposed                   habitat results in a
         construction practices to not       Catcher experienced in             a.    a total area of 500m2 or less; or      clearing is                significant residual impact,
         increase the risk of death or       koala spotting and                 b.    a total of 12 non juvenile koala       1.02ha                     deliver an offset:
         injury to koalas; and               relocating,     will   be                habitat trees or less on the land to                               i.     in accordance with
     b. native vegetation in an area         required during all                      which the development applies.                                            the requirements of
         identified by a proponent to be     clearing works.                                                                                                    the current
         retained as a safe koala            Works will also be                                                                                                 Queensland
         movement measure is                 undertaken              in                                                                                         Environmental Offsets
         progressively restored if it must   accordance with a                                                                                                  Policy or
         be impacted during site             CEMP.
         operations.

                                             N/A




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