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

                                                                                                                                                    Native Foresters



                                                                             •   If possible, works will occur outside breeding season.
                                                                             •   Machinery hygiene protocol enforced during works to reduce potential to spread weeds.
                                                                             •   Weed management plan within retained vegetation to ensure Singapore daisy infestation is controlled, as well as other RIP’s.
3.    Ensure that, where interfering with koala habitat results in a
      significant residual impact, and offset if delivered:
           a.    at a multiplier of 6 (unless the offsets calculator   It is proposed to establish a total rehabilitation area of 1.8 hectares to mitigate impacts to Koala habitat. The
                 is a greater amount) and otherwise in                 rehabilitation will involve:
                 accordance with the requirements of the                    •    A dedicated Koala Tree Offset planting for Lot 77 which will nominate an offset in suitable habitat which is larger than the koala
                 Queensland Environmental Offsets Policy at the                  habitat to be cleared of 1.02ha. The rehabilitation area is to be designed to improve and or create vegetated Koala movement
                 time of the project approval; or                                corridors and provide for the offset of koala trees.
                                                                            •    Within the Koala rehabilitation works a minimum of 0.21ha of designated revegetation aimed to achieve RE 12.5.3 (Eucalyptus
                                                                                 racemosa subsp. racemosa woodland on remnant Tertiary surfaces (DES, 2022), to mitigate the impacts to Endangered RE.

                                                                       As a significant residual impact is not relevant for this proposed clearing, the requirement for a 6 to 1 offset is not
                                                                       necessary. Council is proposing a 1.8 ha Offset for the 1.02 ha of area been cleared.




           b.    at a multiplier of 6 (unless the offsets calculator   “as above”
                 is a greater amount) and otherwise in
                 accordance with the requirements of the
                 Queensland Environmental Offsets Policy at the
                 time of the project approval, except for the offset
                 site location preferences if the public sector
                 entity has a pre-existing offset; or
           c.    as an alternate compensatory action, where the        N/A
                 development is for Transport Infrastructure, and
                 the alternate compensatory action includes:
                        i. the design, prior to the
                           commencement of impacts, of a
                           Koala Management Plan that:
                             a)   demonstrates that the alternate      N/A
                                  compensatory action will deliver
                                  a conservation outcome equal
                                  to, or greater than, would
                                  otherwise be achieved through
                                  the delivery of a land-based
                                  offset in 3 (a) or (b) above; and
                             b)   demonstrates that the alternate      N/A
                                  compensatory action is based



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