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

 Performance outcomes                                  Acceptable outcomes                                 Response
                                                           b. containing fodder species with an
                                                              average height of at least four metres;
                                                              and
                                                        3. does not result in clearing for machinery
                                                           access between block harvest areas
                                                           exceeding 10 metres in width.
 Cleared vegetation
 PO146 Fodder harvesting is carried out in a way       No acceptable outcome is prescribed.
 that results in the woody biomass of the cleared
 vegetation remaining where it is cleared.
 Conserving the fodder resource
 PO147 Fodder harvesting is carried out in a way     AO147.1 Clearing does not occur:
 that will conserve the fodder resource.             1. in an area that has been cleared in the
                                                         previous 10-year period; and
                                                     2. more than once in the same area of a lot; and
                                                     3. in more than 50 per cent of the area of the
                                                         regional ecosystem listed in reference table
                                                         6 and reference table 7 of this code on the lot;
                                                         and
                                                     4. in areas required to be retained under this
                                                         code, a development approval or any
                                                         accepted development vegetation clearing
                                                         code.
 Duration of clearing, preventing land degradation, and maintaining biodiversity, ecological processes and regional ecosystems
 PO148 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 16.15: Managing thickened vegetation
 Performance outcomes                                  Acceptable outcomes                                 Response
 Clearing associated with wetlands
 PO149 Clearing of vegetation within a natural         AO149.1 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 a natural wetland;
 composition, structure and function of any regional       and


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