Volume 2H Appendix T: Biodiversity

Volume 2H Appendix T: Biodiversity (pdf)

Contents	Pages
Glossary of terms and abbreviations	iii
Executive summary	v
1 Introduction	1-1
1.1 Overview of the project	1-1
1.2 Project location	1-1
1.3 Secretary’s environmental assessment requirements	1-4
1.4 Purpose and scope of this report	1-4
1.5 Definitions	1-5
2 Proposed project	2-1
2.1 Project features	2-1
2.2 Construction activities	2-2
3 Legislative context	3-1
3.1 NSW Legislation	3-1
3.2 Commonwealth legislation	3-2
4 Assessment methodology	4-1
4.1 Assessment approach	4-1
4.2 Methodology	4-2
5 Existing environment	5-1
5.1 Vegetation communities	5-1
5.2 Flora species	5-2
5.3 Fauna species	5-2
5.4 Fauna habitats	5-3
5.5 Conservation significance	5-6
6 Assessment of impacts	6-1
6.1 Construction impacts	6-1
6.2 Operational impacts	6-5
6.3 Cumulative impacts	6-5
6.4 Key threatening processes	6-6
6.5 Identification of affected threatened and migratory biota	6-6
6.6 Assessment of significance of impacts on State-listed biota	6-7
6.7 Assessment of significance of impacts on MNES	6-10
7 Management of impacts	7-1
7.1 Avoiding and minimising impacts during design	7-1
7.2 Mitigating impacts	7-1
7.3 Offsetting impacts	7-2
8 Conclusion	8-1
8.1 Assessment of key thresholds	8-1
8.2 Summary of key findings	8-2
9 References	9-1
Appendix A – Government agency comments relating to biodiversity	A
Appendix B – Likelihood of occurrence of threatened biota in the study area	B
Appendix C – Species recorded during field survey	C
Appendix D – Likely significance of impacts on TSC Act-listed biota	D
Appendix E – Likely significance of impacts on EPBC Act-listed biota	E