Ecological Assessment Report

                                                                                                                                     Ecological Assessment Report




Legislative Element    Description                                              Triggers                      Database Search            Applicable to report

Biosecurity Act 2014   The main purpose of the Biosecurity Act 2014 is          Presence of prohibited        Review of Schedule 2       Yes – refer to Section
                       to provide for the risk-based management of              and/ or restricted invasive   of the Act and Weeds       4.
                       biosecurity matters, including prohibited and            animals or plants on site.    of National Significance
                       restricted invasive animals and plants.                                                (WoNS) database

Fisheries Act 1994     The Fisheries Act 1994 (Fisheries Act) provides          Action resulting in           Mapped waterway on         No. The site does not
                       for the use, conservation and enhancement of             interference with fish        the Queensland             impact on any mapped
                       Queensland's fisheries resources and fish                passage in a mapped           Waterways for              waterways identified
                       habitats.                                                watercourse defined under     Waterway Barrier           on the Queensland
                                                                                the Fisheries Act             Works Map.                 Waterways for
                       Waterway barrier works are regulated under the
                                                                                (waterway barrier work) or                               Waterway Barrier
                       Fisheries Act 1994 and Planning Act 2016 when
                                                                                interference with marine                                 Works Map.
                       barriers to fish movement, including partial
                                                                                plants/ mangroves.
                       barriers, are installed across waterways. Any
                       waterway barrier works within a mapped waterway
                       defined under the Fisheries Act 1994 as shown on
                       the Queensland Waterways for Waterway Barrier
                       Works Map will require either a development
                       application under the Planning Act 2016 or must
                       achieve     compliance     with     the     Accepted
                       development requirements for operational works
                       that is constructing or raising waterway barrier
                       works. Barrier works include construction, raising,
                       replacement and some maintenance works on
                       structures such as culvert crossings, bed level and
                       low-level   crossings,   weirs    and     dams,   both
                       permanent and temporary. Where a waterway
                       determination is questionable, it is the on-ground




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