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• E2011-0063 General Permit Application (PDF - 63 KB) |  (Word - 106 KB)
• E2011-0063 Supplementary Form C (PDF - 63 KB) |  (Word - 108 KB)
• E2011-0063 Attachment — Description of Action (PDF - 60 KB) |  (Word - 23 KB)
• E2011-0063 Attachment — Map (PDF - 2.1 MB)
• E2011-0063 Attachment — EPBC 2011-6174 Referral Form (PDF - 252 KB) |  (Word - 833 KB)

About the application

The Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities has received an application for a permit to kill, injure, take, trade, keep or move listed threatened species and ecological community in a Commonwealth Area under Part 13, sections 200 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).  The application is to remove Natural Temperate Grassland of the Victorian Volcanic Plain at 15 Vaughan Street, Essendon Fields, Essendon Airport, Vic.  Natural Temperate Grassland of the Victorian Volcanic Plain is a critically endangered listed ecological community under the EPBC Act.

Please see the documents above for further details on the proposal.

If the application for a permit to conduct the activity is approved the permit will be valid for a period of up to five years.

In accordance with the provisions of sections 200(3) of the Act, you are invited to comment on this proposal.

Please submit your comments by 21 December 2011.

Please include your full name and address in your submission.

Comments should be addressed to:

The Director
Commonwealth and Territories Section
Environment Assessment Branch
Environment Assessment and Compliance Division
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
GPO Box 787
Canberra  ACT  2601

or can be e-mailed to: EPBC.permits@environment.gov.au

To assist in considering comments, you are encouraged to provide comments under the following headings:

• Management and methodology
• Monitoring procedures
• Ecological sustainability of the operation
• Other