RFI - Attachment 4C - MSES-MNES Assessment - Noosa Landfill RRC- Revision 3

                                                                                                      Native Foresters



SRI CRITERIA                                      SIGNIFICANT      NOT LIKELY         NOTES
                                                                   TO BE
                                                                   SIGNIFICANT

                                                                                      the RE is not fragmented within the adjacent
                                                                                      remaining vegetation. Refer Figure 2.

Notwithstanding the above, an action is UNLIKELY to have an SRI on an ‘endangered’ or ‘of concern’ RE if the action will result
in:

Clearing of less than 10% of the total                                                Unlikely to be significant as clearing constitutes
mapped area of ‘endangered’ or ‘of                                                    approximately 5% of the total mapped area of
concern’ REs intersecting the property                                                ‘Endangered” RE 12.5.3 that intersects the
boundaries of the project, if total clearing is                                       property boundary of the expansion area, and
                                                                          √
under 5ha; and where an equivalent area                                               an equivalent area of 0.21ha will be
which can be mapped as endangered or of                                               rehabilitated to align with RE 12.5.3 on Lot 77.
concern in the future, is rehabilitated
through other locations on the subject site.

 The action of clearing Endangered RE is UNLIKELY to have a SRI on regulated vegetation, IF mitigation is undertaken
                 through rehabilitation works on Lot 77 (0.21ha is offset and rehabilitated to RE 12.5.3)

REGULATED VEGETATION- ‘Essential Habitat (EH)’

An action is LIKELY to have an SRI on ‘Essential Habitat’ if the action will result in:

(a) clearing of EH exceeding the thresholds                                           Although clearing exceeds limits (i.e., >0.5ha of
specified in Table 1, SDAP Module 8                                                   vegetation with dense structure category for RE
(Appendix B), and resulting in a greater                                  √           12.3.13), the clearing does not result in >10%
than 10% permanent reduction in the extent                                            permanent reduction in the extent of EH
of EH mapped on site.                                                                 mapped on site.

The action of clearing 1.02ha of EH is UNLIKELY to have an SRI on regulated vegetation as the clearing does not meet
the criteria



Under section 3.5.1 of Significant Residual Impact Guideline (DSDIP, 2014), Wildlife habitat
criteria for the site is detailed, and the site assessment against this criteria is summarised in
Table 5.




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