A description and analysis of the Refer response above. Refer sections 3 Include development proposals currently under potential impacts on relevant MNES and 4 assessment process of the EPBC Act and the arising from planned and potential State Development and Public Works future development. Organization Act 1971. Actual and potential impacts on MNES from Refer sections 3 Consider activities regardless of where it is past, present and future activities will be and 4 occurring if it impacts within GBRWHA assessed. The Strategic Assessment area (regardless of source, type, or cause, including covers the Great Barrier Reef Region and mining, dams, ports, urban development, fishing, areas outside that Region to the extent that tourism, commercial shipping, agriculture, climate they affect that Region. change, growing human population). Refer response above. Cumulative impacts Refer sections 3 Consider all impacts of activities of the above will be considered. and 4 activities. The Strategic Assessment will examine the Refer Introduction Consult proponents of development to identify, effectiveness of the Authority's management and section 7 describe, and analyse development impacts. arrangements to identify, describe and analyse impacts from a range of sources including development activities. Stakeholders, including proponents, will be consulted as part of the process. The Strategic Assessment will utilise a range Refer Introduction Methods: of methods and approaches, building upon and sections 5 and a comprehensive assessment would need to approaches used in the Great Barrier Reef 7 include modeling and risk assessment studies. Outlook Report 2009. This includes an define methods for assessment in final Terms assessment of overall risk. of Reference include modeling. An assessment of whether any of the The Strategic Assessment will identify values No changes Assess impacts to environmentally valuable areas potential impacts will be: and attributes which underpin MNES proposed and processes that underpin MNES. including bioregions and habitats.
A description and analysis of the potential impacts on relevant MNES arising from planned and potential future development. Include development proposals currently under assessment process of the EPBC Act and the State Development and Public Works Organization Act 1971. Refer response above. Refer sections 3 and 4 Consider activities regardless of where it is occurring if it impacts within GBRWHA (regardless of source, type, or cause, including mining, dams, ports, urban development, fishing, tourism, commercial shipping, agriculture, climate change, growing human population). Actual and potential impacts on MNES from past, present and future activities will be assessed. The Strategic Assessment area covers the Great Barrier Reef Region and areas outside that Region to the extent that they affect that Region. Refer sections 3 and 4 Consider all impacts of activities of the above activities. Refer response above. Cumulative impacts will be considered. Refer sections 3 and 4 Consult proponents of development to identify, describe, and analyse development impacts. The Strategic Assessment will examine the effectiveness of the Authority's management arrangements to identify, describe and analyse impacts from a range of sources including development activities. Stakeholders, including proponents, will be consulted as part of the process. Refer Introduction and section 7 Methods: a comprehensive assessment would need to include modeling and risk assessment studies. define methods for assessment in final Terms of Reference include modeling. The Strategic Assessment will utilise a range of methods and approaches, building upon approaches used in the Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2009. This includes an assessment of overall risk. Refer Introduction and sections 5 and 7 An assessment of whether any of the potential impacts will be: Assess impacts to environmentally valuable areas and processes that underpin MNES. The Strategic Assessment will identify values and attributes which underpin MNES including bioregions and habitats. No changes proposed
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