2022-09-06 P&E Agenda - Item 5 - Attachment 1 - Six Mile Creek Bridge Replacement Offset Report - TMR

Legislation/ policy/plans   Legislative jurisdiction   Intent                                                                               Applicability to proposed action
                                                          Nature Conservation (Plants) Regulation 2020 (Qld), which
                                                           prohibits the taking or destruction, without authorisation, of
                                                           protected plants and lists all flora species that are considered to
                                                           be extinct in the wild, endangered, vulnerable, near threatened,
                                                           least concern and special least concern. Also listed is
                                                           international wildlife and prohibited wildlife.
                                                       The NC Act also includes provisions for protected areas such as
                                                       national parks, nature refuges, and world heritage management
                                                       areas.
Nature Conservation         Queensland                 The Koala Plan requires any clearing in certain areas to be                          The proposed action will require clearing within District A
(Koala) Conservation Plan                              undertaken sequentially, and in the presence of a suitably qualified                 as identified in the Koala Plan. Clearing works in Koala
2017 (Koala Plan)                                      koala spotter. The Koala Plan also prescribes three mapped koala                     habitat within District A, require ‘sequential clearing’ and
                                                       districts (A, B and C) and includes requirements relating to the                     the presence of Koala spotters.
                                                       release of rehabilitation, sick or injured Koalas.
Memorandum of               Queensland                 The MoA applies to government supported transport infrastructure                     The proposed action will require clearing of Koala habitat
Agreement (MoA)                                        projects within the South East Queensland Koala Protection Area                      contained within the SEQKPA. As such, works will be
Department of                                          (SEQKPA). The MoA establishes the respective roles and                               undertaken in accordance with the MoA.
Environment and Resource                               responsibility of TMR and the Department of Environment and
Management (DERM;                                      Science (DES, formerly DERM) in ensuring that the planning,
former) and TMR                                        design, construction and maintenance of government supported
                                                       transport infrastructure in the SEQKPA is carried out in a way that
Government Supported                                   reduces adverse impacts to Koala and Koala habitat.
Transport Infrastructure
within the South East
Queensland Koala
Protection Area
Environmental Offsets Act   Queensland                 The Offsets Act and associated Environmental Offsets Regulation                      The proposed action will be required to deliver
2014 (Qld) (Offsets Act)                               2014 (Qld) seeks to ‘counterbalance the significant residual impacts                 environmental offsets consistent with the Offsets Act
                                                       of particular activities on prescribed environmental matters through                 where significant residual impacts are identified
                                                       the use of environmental offsets’. The Offsets Act is administered by                against the relevant State and/or Commonwealth
                                                       the Queensland DES, and establishes a coordinated framework to                       significant impact guideline.
                                                       regulate the delivery of offsets in Queensland.                                      Environmental offsets for significant residual impacts
                                                       To achieve the purpose of the Offsets Act, the Queensland                            to a prescribed matter may be delivered through a
                                                       Environmental Offsets Policy (Version 1.9, August 2020) was                          proponent-driven offset (e.g. land-based offset), a
                                                       developed to provide further guidance on the requirements for the                    financial offset calculated in accordance with the
                                                       assessment of ‘Significant residual impacts’, and accepted methods                   Financial Settlement Offset Calculation Methodology,
                                                       for the delivery of offsets, where required.                                         or a combination of proponent driven and financial
                                                                                                                                            offsets.




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