Appendix A - SDAP - State Code 16 - Native vegetation clearing response

 Performance outcomes                                    Acceptable outcomes                                  Response
 Salinity
 PO131 Clearing within 100 metres of a salinity          AO131.1 Clearing does not occur within 100
 expression area does not contribute to or               metres of a salinity expression area.
 accelerate land degradation through either of the
 following:
 1. waterlogging;
 2. the salinisation of groundwater, surface water
      or soil.
 Acid sulfate soils if the local government is not the assessment manager for the development application
 PO132 Clearing does not result in, or accelerate,       AO132.1 Clearing does not occur in land zone 1,
 disturbance of acid sulfate soils or changes to the     land zone 2 or land zone 3.
 hydrology of the location that will result in either of
 the following:                                          OR
 1. aeration of horizons containing iron sulphides; or
 2. mobilisation of acid or metals.                      AO132.2 Clearing in land zone 1, land zone 2 or
                                                         land zone 3 in areas below the five metre
                                                         Australian Height Datum only occurs where:
                                                         1. mechanical clearing does not disturb the soil
                                                             to a depth greater than 30 centimetres; and
                                                         2. acid sulfate soils are managed consistent with
                                                             the soil management guidelines in the
                                                             Queensland Acid Sulfate Soil Technical
                                                             Manual.
 Clearing limited to specific regional ecosystems
 PO133 Clearing of encroachment does not occur,          No acceptable outcome is prescribed.
 other than in the regional ecosystems listed in
 reference table 5 of this code.
 Conserving vegetation
 PO134 Clearing activities:                              AO134.1 Clearing retains all of the following:
 1. result in the restoration of the regional            1. all mature trees; and
      ecosystem; and                                     2. all habitat trees; and
 2. retain all habitat trees; and                        3. all woody vegetation within a grove, unless it
 3. retain all groves; and                                   is undertaken by a regional ecosystem burn.
 4. retain species which make up the natural floristic
      composition of the regional ecosystem,             AND
      distributed in a natural pattern.
                                                         AO134.2 Any regional ecosystem burn is
                                                         undertaken in accordance with the fire guideline for
                                                         the regional ecosystem, as outlined in the

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