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

 Performance outcomes                                Acceptable outcomes                                Response
                                                            Australian Pesticides and Veterinary
                                                            Medicines Authority; and
                                                     3. within whichever is the greater distance from a
                                                        grove:
                                                        a. 30 metres; or
                                                        b. the distance specified by the approved
                                                            product label; or
                                                        c. the distance specified in the safety and
                                                            use conditions issued by the Australian
                                                            Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines
                                                            Authority.
 Duration of clearing, preventing land degradation, and maintaining biodiversity, ecological processes and regional ecosystems
 PO135 Clearing occurs only during a period that:    No acceptable outcome is prescribed.
 1. will not contribute to land degradation; and
 2. ensures the ongoing maintenance of ecological
    processes and biodiversity; and
 3. maintains the regional ecosystem.

Table 16.14: Fodder harvesting
 Performance outcomes                                    Acceptable outcomes                                Response
 Clearing associated with wetlands
 PO136 Clearing of vegetation within a natural           AO136.1 Mechanical clearing does not occur in
 wetland and/or within 100 metres of the defining        any of the following areas:
 bank of a natural wetland maintains the                 1. inside the defining bank of any natural
 composition, structure and function of any regional         wetland; and
 ecosystem associated with a natural wetland to          2. within 20 metres of the defining bank of any
 protect all of the following:                               natural wetland.
 1. bank stability by protecting against bank erosion;
 2. water quality by filtering sediments, nutrients      AND
     and other pollutants;
 3. aquatic habitat;                                     AO136.2 Mechanical clearing that is strip
 4. terrestrial habitat.                                 harvesting or block harvesting does not occur in
                                                         any of the following areas:
                                                         1. inside the defining bank of any natural
                                                             wetland; and
                                                         2. within 100 metres of the defining bank of any
                                                             natural wetland.

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