Attachment 7A - Impact Assessment Report

                                                                                           Native Foresters



5.2          SRI criteria under the Environmental Offsets Policy
The Queensland Environmental Offsets Policy Significant Residual Impact Guideline (DEHP,
2014) assessment of criteria is detailed below in Sections 5.2.1 to 5.2.4.

5.2.1    Criteria – Regulated Vegetation

The Queensland Environmental Offsets Policy Significant Residual Impact Guideline (DEHP,
2014) criteria for impacted remnant vegetation on site is detailed in section 2.1 of the guideline
and is assessed for the site in Table 6.

Section 2 of the SRI Guidelines (DEHP, 2014) states:
      Regulated vegetation is a ‘prescribed regional ecosystem’ that:
         •    is an endangered or of concern regional ecosystem, as defined under the
              Vegetation Management Act 1999 (VMA); or
         •    intersects with an area shown on the vegetation management wetlands map, as
              defined under the VMA 1999, or
         •    is located within the defined distance from the defining banks of a watercourse
              identified on the vegetation management watercourse map, as defined under the
              VMA 1999.

For the significant residual impact test Endangered Regional Ecosystem 12.5.3 (Eucalyptus
tereticornis, Corymbia intermedia, E. crebra +/- Lophostemon suaveolens woodland on
Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks) is categorised as having a ‘sparse’ structure. It is
found that the proposed clearing is not likely to be an SRI on a Regional Ecosystem
(Endangered or Of concern) as shown in Table 6 below.

Table 6: SRI criteria – Regulated Vegetation (From Section 2.1 of the SRI Guidelines (DEHP,
2014) – criteria Table 1)

                                                       Clearing in a         Clearing in the         Clearing in a
                                                         regional              portion of a      regional ecosystem
                                                     ecosystem that              regional          that is within the
                                                     is: endangered,         ecosystem that      defined distance of a
                                                      or of concern           lies within a          watercourse
                                                                             mapped wetland
    1 For clearing other than clearing
      for linear infrastructure:                               X
        - area greater than 5 ha where in a              (Proposed
             grassland (structuralcategory)                area of
             regional ecosystem; or                      clearing of
        - area greater than 2 ha where in a             Endangered                     X                  X
             sparse (structuralcategory)
             regional ecosystem; or                      RE 12.5.3
        - area greater than 0.5 ha where                Total area =
             in a dense to mid-dense                       0.21ha
             (structural category) regional               cleared)
             ecosystem.
    2 Clearing within 50m of the defining
                                                                                       X                  N/
                       bank                             N/A
                                                                                                          A
    3   Clearing within 5m of the defining
                       bank                             N/A                      N/A                      X




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