Attachment 6b - Ecological Assessment Part 2 · MCU18/0015

                                                              Ecological Assessment – Attunga Heights



 Performance outcomes                             Acceptable outcomes                                   Response      Comment
                                                  AO24.2 Clearing in essential habitat does not                       RE 12.2.5 is mapped as containing Essential
                                                  exceed the widths prescribed in table 16.3.1 of                     Habitat for the Glossy black cockatoo. The
                                                  this code.                                                          Regional Ecosystem Description Database notes
                                                                                                                      the structure of this RE as mid-dense. Therefore,
                                                  OR                                                                  in accordance with table 16.3.1 of the code,
                                                                                                                     clearing of Essential Habitat (i.e. RE 12.2.5) is
                                                                                                                      limited to 10 m in width.

                                                                                                                      The width of RE 12.2.5 to be cleared exceeds 10
                                                                                                                      m in width.
                                                  AO24.3 Clearing in essential habitat does not                       In accordance with table 16.3.1 of the code,
                                                  exceed the areas prescribed in table 16.3.1 of                      clearing of Essential Habitat (i.e. RE 12.2.5) is
                                                  this code.                                                         limited to less than 0.5 ha (i.e. 0.39 ha in total).

                                                  OR

                                                  AO24.4 Where clearing cannot be reasonably                          Not applicable.
                                                  avoided, and clearing has been reasonably
                                                  minimised, an offset is provided for any
                                                  acceptable significant residual impact from              n/a
                                                  clearing of essential habitat (a matter of state
                                                  environmental significance).

 Acid sulfate soils (public safety and relevant infrastructure activities, coordinated project, extractive industry, high value agriculture clearing, irrigated high value
 agriculture clearing, necessary environmental clearing, necessary to control non-native plants or declared pests, thinning, encroachment)
                                                  AO27.1 Clearing does not occur in land zone 1,                      Clearing will occur on land zone 2.
 PO27 Clearing does not result in, or
                                                  land zone 2 or land zone 3.
 accelerate, disturbance of acid sulfate soils                                                              
 or changes to the hydrology of the location      OR
 that will result in either of the following:
                                                  AO27.2 Clearing in land zone 1, land zone 2 or                      Clearing will not occur below 5m AHD.
 1. aeration of horizons containing iron          land zone 3 in areas below the five metre
 sulphides; or                                    Australian Height Datum only occurs where:
                                                                                                            
 2. mobilisation of acid or metals.               1. it does not involve mechanical clearing; and




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