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2001 108 Due date Region FA section Milestone Progress Code started 14 December Sthn Att. 6(3) point 5 Ongoing Sthn 2.2.3 Ongoing Sthn Att. 6(3) point 4 Ongoing Sthn Att. 6(3) Ongoing Sthn Att. 6(3) point 1 Ongoing Sthn Att. 6(4) NSW will ensure that an integrated code of practice is developed for plantation activities across all tenures under the Plantations and Reafforestation Act 1999. Existing plantations can also continue to obtain certainty for the purposes of harvesting as per the Timber Plantations (Harvest Guarantee) Act 1995 and similar provisions included in the Plantations and Reafforestation Act. For activities regulated under the Plantations and Reafforestation Act 1999, plans must be prepared as required in the Plantations and Reafforestation (Code) Regulation 2001. With appropriate public involvement, and consistent with the Native Vegetation Conservation Act 1997, the regional vegetation management committees will pursue planning policies that provide for appropriate long-term, secure, management provisions for private native forests, including harvesting for commercial wood production. Improve administrative arrangements and cooperation and coordination by State agencies to facilitate the timber industry using private forest resources. Arrangements to ensure ESFM on private forests, involving the provision of technical advice, extension services, research and assistance in the estimation of sustainable yield. Undertake a private forest inventory of southern NSW to determine the basis of yield of wood products from private land is required, with the agreement of forest owner groups. Implemented This milestone was achieved with the implementation of the Plantations and Reafforestation (Code) Regulation 2001 in December 2001. The Plantations and Reafforestation Act 1999 and the code provide certainty for harvesting, which was previously provided under the Timber Plantations (Harvest Guarantee) Act 1995. Plantations certified under the Timber Plantations (Harvest Guarantee) Act are deemed to be authorised under the Plantations and Reafforestation Act. A statutory review of the Act and code began in January 2005. As required, a Report to Parliament on the outcomes of the review was filed in December 2005. During 2006 and 2007, inter-agency working groups developed amendments to the Act and code based on the recommendations in the report. An Industry Reference Group was consulted on the proposed amendments. It is intended to place the proposed amendments on public exhibition, providing an opportunity for comment by the broader community. An amendment Bill will then be introduced into Parliament. Implemented The Plantations and Reafforestation (Code) Regulation 2001 requires applicants for plantation authorisation to submit a plantation plan as part of their applications. Refer to clause 14 of the code. Operational plans are also required for specified plantation operations, i.e. site preparation involving ripping and ploughing, construction crossing rivers, and harvesting exceeding a certain volume. Refer to clauses 26 and 27 of the code. The requirements for plantation plans and operational plans will not be affected by review of the Act and code, although it is proposed that some additional items will be required to be shown on plantation plans. Continuing The Native Vegetation Act 2003 establishes a different regime that does not include regional vegetation management committees. CMAs have subsumed their role. Continuing No further progress to report. Continuing No further progress to report. Continuing No further progress to report. NSW FOREST AGREEMENTS AND INTEGRATED FORESTRY OPERATIONS APPROVALS
Due date Region FA section Milestone Progress World Heritage and wilderness 2000 1 January 2002 Ongoing 31 December 2001 1 April 2002 1 April UNE, LNE 2.5 Sthn 2.5 UNE, LNE UNE, LNE UNE, LNE, Eden Att. 8 2.7 2.7 2004 30 April Sthn 2.7 2.6 (E) Public exhibition of wilderness assessment report for the UNE and LNE regions. NPWS must provide advice to the Minister administering the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 on the submissions received during public consultation and the areas recommended for wilderness declaration. Make subsequent decisions on the declaration and management as wilderness of areas of the CAR reserve system provisionally identified as wilderness during the regional forest assessment. Review of CERRA World Heritage Areas to identify any additional rainforest to be included. Further studies of the dedicated reserve system to identify World Heritage values, including eucalyptdominant vegetation and religious beliefs embedded in the landscape. Studies of the dedicated reserve system to identify World Heritage values. Completed The Northern Wilderness Assessment Report was publicly exhibited in mid-2001. Completed Completed In progress CERRA is now referred to as the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia A list of proposed extensions to Gondwana Rainforest was internally reviewed by DECC and the Technical and Scientific Advisory Committee. In progress UNE/LNE A consultant’s report, commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Environment and Heritage (DEH) and completed in mid-2005, identified potential sites of national significance in the broader CERRA region based on the following themes: Aboriginal earthen ceremonial initiation sites (‘bora rings’), stone arrangements, dreaming/creation places, working together and resistance. The report was reviewed by DEH and finalised. Work continues on seeking National Heritage Listing for some or all of the sites and, potentially, a World Heritage nomination based on Indigenous cultural values. There was no progress in investigating World Heritage values of eucalypt-dominant vegetation. (Note CERRA is now referred to as the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia.) Deferred Eden No further studies are currently planned. In progress The Australian Wilderness Coast (Bermagui to Mallacoota) was listed as a landscape of national significance. An assessment of the Australian Alps (including Kosciuszko National Park) has been completed and NSW Cabinet is to consider a joint nomination of the Australian Alps for National Heritage Listing. This consideration has not yet occurred. National Heritage Listing is a prerequisite before consideration can be given to World Heritage nomination. World Heritage values are under assessment for South Coast wetland areas both on- and off-park. NSW FOREST AGREEMENTS AND INTEGRATED FORESTRY OPERATIONS APPROVALS 109
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