Albemarle Kemerton Plant Report Flora and Vegetation Monitoring and Management Plan Document No. 606541-4500-DV00-RPT-0020 Albemarle Project No. 7421 ALBEMARLE R Albemarle Lithium Pty Ltd $OEHPDUOH.HPHUWRQ3ODQW )ORUDDQG9HJHWDWLRQ0RQLWRULQJ DQG0DQDJHPHQW3ODQ November Table of contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 1 1. Context and Scope ......................................................................................................................... 2 1.1 Proposal ............................................................................................................................... 2 1.2 Key environmental factors ................................................................................................... 2 1.3 Purpose of this management plan ....................................................................................... 3 1.4 Condition requirements ........................................................................................................ 3 1.5 Limitations ............................................................................................................................ 6 2. Rationale and Approach ................................................................................................................. 7 2.1 Vegetation and flora assessment ........................................................................................ 7 2.2 Threatened and priority ecological communities ................................................................. 7 2.3 Threatened orchid assessment ........................................................................................... 9 2.4 Dieback assessment .......................................................................................................... 10 2.5 Threatened community and orchid description .................................................................. 13 3. Threatened community and orchid management provisions ....................................................... 18 3.1 Threatened community and orchid potential impacts ........................................................ 18 3.2 Threatened community and orchid management measures ............................................. 19 3.3 Management targets and monitoring ................................................................................. 26 3.4 Triggers and contingency actions ...................................................................................... 28 4. Monitoring program ...................................................................................................................... 32 4.1 Monitoring overview considerations ................................................................................... 32 4.2 Monitoring type and locations ............................................................................................ 33 4.3 Site establishment .............................................................................................................. 39 4.4 Monitoring parameters ....................................................................................................... 39 4.5 Threatened orchid locations .............................................................................................. 40 4.6 Data analysis ..................................................................................................................... 41 4.7 Reporting ........................................................................................................................... 41 5. Management plan reporting and revision ..................................................................................... 42 6. References ................................................................................................................................... 43 GHD | Report for Albemarle Lithium Pty Ltd - Albemarle Kemerton Plant, 61/36286/ | i Table index Table 1 Purpose and Objective of the Albemarle Kemerton Plant FVMMP ............................................ 1 Table 2 Management objectives and targets for the Albemarle Kemerton Plant FVMMP....................... 2 Table 3 Ministerial Condition 1085 Conditions ......................................................................................... 3 Table 4 Extent of Banksia Woodlands of the SCP TEC / PEC within the Development Envelope and KSIA .............................................................................................................. 8 Table 5 Threatened community and orchid management measures ..................................................... 21 Table 6 Flora and vegetation objectives, management targets, triggers, monitoring and reporting ............................................................................................................................. 26 Table 7 Tentative monitoring locations .................................................................................................. 35 Table 8 Monitoring quadrats and transect plots - selected parameters ................................................. 40 Table 9 Summary of calculations ........................................................................................................... 41 Figure index Figure 1 Project location ........................................................................................................................... 5 Figure 2 Location of Banksia Woodland TEC and threatened orchids .................................................. 11 Figure 3 Baseline dieback assessment .................................................................................................. 12 Figure 4 Drakaea elastica locations and D. elastica surveyed areas .................................................... 37 Figure 5 Banksia Woodland TEC Transect and Photographic Monitoring Point Locations ................... 38 Figure 6 Layout of Banksia Woodland monitoring transect ................................................................... 39 Appendices Appendix A – Methodology information GHD | Report for Albemarle Lithium Pty Ltd - Albemarle Kemerton Plant, 61/36286/ | ii Executive Summary This Flora and Vegetation Management and Monitoring Plan (FVMMP) has been prepared in accordance with Ministerial Statement No.1085 Conditions 6-1 to 6-3 for the Albemarle Lithium Pty Ltd (Albemarle) Kemerton Plant (the Project). The FVMMP provides management and monitoring measures for native vegetation and flora that are potentially impacted by the Project. In particular, it has been developed for the Banksia Woodlands of the Swan Coastal Plain (SCP) Threatened Ecological Community (TEC) (Banksia Woodland TEC) and the Low lying Banksia attenuata Woodlands or Shrublands Priority Ecological Community (PEC) along with the Dwarf Bee-orchid (Diuris micrantha), Glossy-leafed Hammer-orchid (Drakaea elastica) and Dwarf Hammer-orchid (D. micrantha). These have been identified by the Department of the Environment and Energy (DotEE) and the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) as communities / species that may potentially be impacted upon by activities associated with the Project. The purpose of this FVMMP, in the context of EPA objectives, is summarised in Table 1. The Project management objectives and criteria intended to measure achievement of the management objectives are summarised in Table 2. Table 1 Purpose and Objective of the Albemarle Kemerton Plant FVMMP Title of Proposal Albemarle Kemerton Plant Proponent name Albemarle Lithium Pty Ltd (Albemarle) Ministerial Statement No. 1085 Purpose of this FVMMP To fulfil requirements of conditions 6-1 to 6-3 of Ministerial Statement 1085. To provide management and monitoring measures for native vegetation and flora that are potentially impacted by the Project. In particular, the Banksia Woodland TEC, Low lying Banksia attenuata Woodlands or Shrublands PEC and the three threatened orchids. EPA’s environmental Flora and Vegetation – To protect flora and vegetation so that objectives for the key biological diversity and ecological integrity are maintained. environmental factors Proponent’s Albemarle shall ensure that the construction and ongoing environmental outcome operation of the Project is undertaken in a manner that avoids direct and indirect impacts (outside of the approved clearing area) to Threatened Flora and Communities. This includes the Banksia Woodlands of the Swan Coastal Plain TEC and Low Lying Banksia attenuata woodlands or shrublands and Drakaea elastica, D. micrantha and Diuris micrantha. GHD | Report for Albemarle Lithium Pty Ltd - Albemarle Kemerton Plant, 61/36286/ | 1 Table 2 Management objectives and targets for the Albemarle Kemerton Plant FVMMP Management Objectives Management targets Avoid indirect impact to known threatened No reportable decline of nearby Endangered/ orchid species Declared Rare Flora (DRF) Drakaea elastica individuals or habitat, attributable to the Project Avoid indirect impact to vegetation and No reportable decline to adjacent areas flora (Banksia Woodland TEC / Low lying representative of the Banksia Woodlands of the Banksia attenuata woodlands or Swan Coastal Plain TEC/ Low lying Banksia shrublands PEC) outside of the attenuata woodlands or shrublands PEC, Development Envelope attributable to the Project No incidents of fire originating within, and spreading outside of, the Development Envelope Avoid clearing or removal of vegetation