Decision Notice - Negotiated - OPW22 0299 [As Published] · OPW22/0299

                      Fauna Management
               44.    A qualified person* must be engaged to manage fauna in accordance with a fauna
                      management plan submitted prior to a prestart meeting. The fauna management plan must
                      include the following:
                      a.      Ensure works are carried out in accordance the Nature Conservation Act 1992.
                      b.      Undertake pre-clearing inspections including fauna relocation and removal or blocking
                              of all vacant hollows.
                      c.      Ensure clearing works avoids nesting times of animals and birds.
                      d.      Co-ordinate staging and sequence of clearing with fauna protection.
                      e.      Protect and recover fauna during clearing operations.
                      f.      Manage the translocation of animals and recovery procedures in accordance with
                              relevant legislation.
                      g.      Undertake protection works for mulching of any stockpiled vegetation.
                      *(Refer to Advisory Note)
                      Removal of Existing Trees and Vegetation
               45.    Removal of existing trees and vegetation must be undertaken by a qualified person* and
                      must include:
                      a.      Stump grinding to below finished surface level.
                      b.      Rectification to the finished surface levels and materials.
                      c.      No damage to other vegetation for retention.
                      d.      Legal disposal of all removed vegetation and debris.
                      e.      Replanting at a ratio of 5 replacement trees of the same species for each removed
                              tree.
                      *(Refer to Advisory Note)
               46.    Vegetation removal, felling and lopping must:
                      a.      Retain old growth tree hollows and suitably relocate and distribute for nesting fauna.
                      b.      Mulch all other wood and leaf material (without root balls, soil or debris and minimising
                              weed seeds) for re-usable mulch.
                      c.      Have mulch for re-use in landscape or rehabilitation stockpiled and aged for a minimum
                              of three months.
                      d.      Have mulch stockpiles no larger than 1000m3, 2.5m in height and with 10m separation
                              between piles.
                      e.      Allow for existing endemic ground flora to be translocated to suitable landscaping and
                              rehabilitation areas.
                      f.      Conclude with the area being stabilised against erosion, landscaped, rehabilitated and
                              revegetated.
                      *(Refer to Advisory Note)




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