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2013-2014
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Environment Protection and Biodiversity
Conservation Amendment (Alpine
Grazing) Bill 2014
No. , 2014
(Senator Di Natale)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Environment
Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999,
and for related purposes
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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment
(Alpine Grazing) Bill 2014
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Contents
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Short title ........................................................................................... 1
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Commencement ................................................................................. 1
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Schedule(s) ........................................................................................ 2
Schedule 1--Environment Protection and Biodiversity
Conservation Act 1999
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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Environment
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Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999,
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and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act may be cited as the Environment Protection and
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Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Alpine Grazing) Act 2014.
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2 Commencement
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This Act commences on the day after it receives the Royal Assent.
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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 Schedule 1
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Schedule 1
--Environment Protection and
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Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
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1 At the end of Division 1A of Part 7
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Add:
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74E Alpine grazing in Victoria
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(1) The Minister:
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(a) is taken to have received, from the Government of Victoria, a
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referral of its proposal to allow grazing by cattle in the
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Alpine National Park for the purposes of a trial as to whether
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such grazing can assist fire prevention and control; and
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(b) is taken to have decided under section 74B, on the
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commencement of this section, that this Division should
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apply to the referral.
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(2) The Minister is taken to have made the decision for the following
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reasons:
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(a) the proposed grazing for the purposes of the trial would have
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a significant impact on the following listed threatened species
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and listed threatened ecological communities:
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(i) Alpine Sphagnum Bogs and Associated Fens;
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(ii) Spotted Tree Frog Litoria spenceri;
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(iii) Dwarf Sedge Carex paupera;
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(iv) Alpine Tree Frog Litoria verreauxii alpina;
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(b) the proposed grazing for the purposes of the trial could have
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a significant impact on the following listed threatened species
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and listed threatened ecological communities that are known
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to exist near the grazing sites:
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(i) Spot-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus maculatus;
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(ii) Long-footed Potoroo Potorous longipes;
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(iii) Smoky Mouse Pseudomys fumeus;
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(iv) Clover Glycine Glycine latrobeana;
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(c) grazing on the scale that would be necessary to achieve any
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fire control objectives would have an impact on the species
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and ecological communities mentioned in paragraphs (a) and
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Schedule 1 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
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(b), together with many others, that would outweigh any
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possible benefits.
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