Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund Implementation plan

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Acknowledgements The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation would like to thank the following for their contribution to this publication: Clare Meredith, Danielle Griffiths, Sarah Ravensberg, Stephen van Leeuwen, Patrick Seares, Gaye McKenzie, Jan Cowan, Linda Doogibee-Dridi, Margaret Byrne, Matthew Whitting, Harriet Davie, Karin Bankin, Chris Serginson, Brett Mcguire, Peter Davies, Lesley Gibson, Blair Parsons, Grey Mackay, Jo Williams, Bridget Hyder, Jelena May, Sonja Mennen, Agnes Tan, Hugh Lance and Teri O’neill. Picture acknowledgments: the department thanks Sonja Mennan and staff from the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions for the supply of images in this document. For more information about this report, contact: Environmental Offsets Fund project manager on 08 6364 7000.

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Western Australia’s Pilbara is one of conservation work through a strategic and coordinated offsets our most important regions for its program that improves conservation outcomes in the Pilbara. mineral wealth and rich biodiversity. Conservation projects will be recommended by the Department of The region plays a vital economic Water and Environmental Regulation with advice from stakeholders role for Western Australia; however, and a project recommendation group. it is important this is balanced with the conservation of the region’s There are already fantastic partnerships between Traditional Owners, outstanding biodiversity. conservation agencies, industry and government that are delivering projects that improve the local environment and engage Aboriginal The Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund helps to enable sustainable Rangers in work on their country. development in the region while also protecting its unique environmental values. The Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund is an opportunity to expand on those efforts and provide a rigorous, scientific approach to We look forward to ensuring that local groups and organisations are protecting the region’s unique biodiversity and environmental values involved in the delivery of the fund, with the aim of creating local jobs for future generations. for local people, including Aboriginal Ranger groups.

While an offset framework for Western Australia has been in place since 2011, past offsets in the Pilbara were done in isolation and were difficult to implement.

Hon Stephen Dawson MLC The new Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund has been co-designed Minister for Environment by Traditional Owners, natural resource management organisations, conservation groups, industry and the research sector. It will deliver

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan iii Contents

Foreword iii Appendix 31

Appendix 1: How money is receipted to the fund 31 Summary vi Appendix 2: State and federal offset policies 33 Appendix 3: Project selection criteria 35 1.0 Introduction 1 Appendix 4: Method to develop priority areas 40 Appendix 5: Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund evaluation framework 43 1.1 Purpose of the fund 1 Appendix 6: Land tenure and rights to land 50 1.2 Purpose of this implementation plan 3 1.3 Background 5 Definitions 57

2.0 Scope of fund 8 References 58 2.1 Fund governance 8 2.2 Environmental matters 10 Spatial data citations 60 2.3 Policy principles 13 2.4 Designing offset outcomes to endure in the longer term 17

3.0 Priorities for investment 20

4.0 Delivering the fund 23

4.1 Planning delivery of the fund 24 4.2 Implementing projects 26 4.3 Evaluating success of projects and the program 28

iv Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Figures

Figure S1: Summary of the implementation plan’s five chapters vi Figure 1: The Pilbara bioregion 4 Figure 2: Governance framework for the Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund 9 Figure 3: Ease of land access for offsets 19 Figure 4: High-priority areas for offset investment 21 Figure 5: Ease of access and priority environmental matters 22 Figure 6: Adaptive management framework for the Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund 23 Figure 7: Location of priority environmental matters 37 Figure 8: Areas of contraint for offset preojects in the Pilbara bioregion 38 Figure 9: Density of survey observations for threatened and priority fauna in the Pilbara bioregion 39 Figure 10: Native title claimant applications and determination areas in the Pilbara bioregion 54 Figure 11: National park and conservation reserves, Aboriginal reserves, unallocated crown land, proposed conservation reserves, other crown reserves and pastoral leases in the Pilbara bioregion 55 Figure 12: Mining tenements (granted and pending) in the Pilbara bioregion 56

Tables

Table 1: Environmental matters for which offsets are conditioned under Part IV of the EP Act as at August 2019 11 Table 2: Environmental matters which relate to EPBC Act offset conditions (MNES) 12 Table 3 : Matrix of overlapping rights and interest to land 18 Table 4: Purpose of six-monthly and annual reporting 27 Table 5: Summary of the annual review process 29 Table 6: Project selection criteria 41 Table 7: Land tenure, lease, tenement and reserves types in the Pilbara IBRA bioregion 52

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan v Summary

The Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund (the fund) is an ongoing program Offsets are a useful tool to enable sustainable development, but are that invests in strategic conservation projects in the Pilbara bioregion to challenging to implement in the Pilbara because of the complicated improve vegetation and species habitat impacted by development. The tenure arrangements and overlapping rights and interests that exist over fund is forecast to deliver over $90 million of projects across the next land. This plan provides a framework to navigate these challenges. It 40 years and is resourced by companies who are required to pay to offset focuses investment in areas where ease of land access intersect with high the impacts of their operations. biodiversity values for offsets, while highlighting opportunities to expand future delivery. The fund is the first long-term collaboration of its kind between the Western Australian and Australian governments1. It aims to streamline The fund has been designed in close collaboration with Traditional Owners regulation and deliver environmental offset outcomes at a landscape scale. and other land managers to optimise environmental benefits and to encourage the consistent implementation of projects on country. Both the Western Australian and the Australian governments can require offsets as part of environmental approvals. Australian Government This implementation plan describes how the fund will be delivered over the approval is given by the federal Minister for Environment on advice from next five years. It sits alongside other documents that are publicly available, the Department of Energy and Environment (DoEE) and State Government including the program brochure, governance framework and guidelines for approval is given by the Western Australian Minister for Environment on project applicants (Figure S1). advice from the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA).

1 Project delivery agents will deliver projects selected by the Minister. They may be drawn from the not-for-profit, government or private sectors through partnerships, direct requests or a call for expressions of interest. vi Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Chapter 1 – Introduction Program brochure The Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund was created to help manage the Summary of the fund cumulative impacts of mining development on biodiversity.

In the past, mining companies have found it difficult to access land to Governance framework implement their on-ground offsets because of the complexities of working Roles and responsibilities on crown land with overlapping pastoral, mining and native title rights. As How decisions are made a result offset projects have not always been connected or delivered where Reporting requirements needed most. The fund was set to up to overcome these challenges by enabling government to work with the mining industry, pastoralists and Traditional Implementation plan Owners to broker land access and deliver enduring outcomes across Five-year strategic framework that guides operation of all the landscape. aspects of the fund The priorities for the next five years of investment The success of the fund will be measured by the extent to which it achieves Minimum standards for projects and management enduring benefits for the vegetation and species habitat (environmental matters) required to be offset, in collaboration with Traditional Owners and other regional land managers. Guidelines for applicants Periodically details priorities for a ‘call for projects’ that will occur once or more during a five-year period Information for project proponents for that particular ‘call’ Selection criteria

Figure S1: Public documents relating to the Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan vii Chapter 2 – Scope of the fund The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (the department) To deliver cost-effective, landscape-scale outcomes, the department has developed the fund’s governance framework in close consultation with and project delivery agents1 (organisations that deliver projects) will have industry, government, the conservation sector and Traditional Owners. ongoing engagement with an implementation advisory group (IAG). The It is a transparent framework with clear roles and responsibilities for IAG will include representatives from industry, Traditional Owner groups, management and delivery. State Government agencies, natural resource management groups and the Western Australian Biodiversity Science Institute (WABSI). The IAG will also The fund is different to a ‘normal’ natural resource management grant help the department to identify and build on successful programs already program. Projects to manage weeds, feral animals and fire will still be being undertaken in the Pilbara. delivered, but the scope of what is able to be funded is more strict, and guided by principles in the State and commonwealth offset policies. It is important that government demonstrates the outcomes of offset investment within this policy framework so we can deliver on our regulatory obligations.

For example, projects will need to be designed so that outcomes endure in the longer term. In some cases this will require land access agreements to be established which ensure that the offset improvements are not damaged or destroyed in the future. In addition to this, projects will need to lead to tangible improvements to vegetation and/or species habitat and be in addition to what is already required to manage and/or rehabilitate land in the Pilbara.

viii Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Chapter 3 – Priorities for investment Chapter 4 – Delivering the fund The fund will target investment in areas of the Pilbara with a high density The fund will be adaptively managed to plan, implement, monitor, evaluate of both state and federal2 environmental matters, and where there are and adjust its delivery over time. The department and the IAG will design opportunities for land access and ‘security’ for offset outcomes. the scope of each call for projects and seek applications for projects every one to two years. We have identified three priority areas for this five-year implementation plan based on our analysis of biodiversity, land tenure, mining and infrastructure The Minister for Environment will select the projects to be funded, and the datasets. They include: federal Minister through his/her federal agency will have a role in approving • Area 1: Chichester sub-bioregion – area south of Port Hedland the final recommendations. centred on the Great Northern Highway. State and federal environment agencies will make recommendations on the • Area 2: Hamersley sub-region – area to the far east of the projects to be funded through the project recommendation group (PRG). sub-region abutting the North West Coastal Highway. This will ensure compliance with federal and state environmental offset • Area 3: Fortescue sub-bioregion – the mid Fortescue Valley. policies2, conditions of approvals and the Financial Management Act 2006.

These priority areas are the starting point for the fund, based on the Planning documents, project and program evaluation reports and advice information available. We will focus effort in these areas over the next five from the IAG and PRG will be made publicly available on our website –to years, while progressing opportunities to expand offset delivery in other show the link between offset investment and outcomes for the vegetation parts of the Pilbara. and species habitat impacted by development.

2 The federal DoEE is already engaging in the PRG and related fund planning to confirm the fund’s arrangements will meet federal requirements. Once satisfied, DoEE has confirmed it will recommend the Australian Government execute an MOU with the Western Australian Government by which proponents will be able to acquit their offset obligations at the federal level through payments to the fund.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan ix 1.0 Introduction

1.1 Purpose of the fund The Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund (the fund) will facilitate the Combining money from multiple offsets will enable the delivery of larger coordinated delivery of environmental offset projects within the Pilbara and more strategic landscape-scale projects than would occur if individual bioregion of Western Australia (Figure 1). offset projects were delivered independently, leading to better biodiversity conservation outcomes. The fund combines money from individual offset payments required under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (WA) and Environment Projects will be delivered at different scales, and wherever possible will be Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth)2 into a special overlapping to manage multiple threats: purpose account. • Landscape-scale programs will address threats such as weeds, So far, $90 million has been conditioned for projects anticipated over the feral animals and inappropriate fire regimes across large areas. next 40 years. This total is likely to grow as more projects are approved. • Priority area programs will build on the landscape-scale outcomes Actual contributions from proponents will depend on the extent of impact to further improve and protect species habitat and vegetation in to environmental matters over time (e.g. to vegetation and habitat, including the priority areas identified in Chapter 3. Matters of National Environmental Significance). • Site-specific projects will protect and improve specific environmental matters, such as Priority Ecological Communities (PECs) or specific habitat attributes like northern quoll denning habitat.

2 The federal DoEE is already engaging in the PRG and related fund planning to confirm the fund’s arrangements will meet federal requirements. Once satisfied, DoEE has confirmed it will recommend the Australian Government execute an MOU with the Western Australian Government by which proponents will be able to acquit their offset obligations at the federal level through payments to the fund.

1 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Measures of success The fund’s primary measures of success will be the extent to which: • environmental matters are improved – to the same or greater value than the development impact being offset • delivery of the fund aligns with the: –– environmental offset policies of the Western Australian and Australian governments –– implementation principles in this plan –– fund’s governance framework.

The fund’s secondary measures of success will be how much the offset projects: • build on successful regional programs • are co-designed with Traditional Owners, and implemented by Aboriginal people including ranger groups • are developed in collaboration with other regional stakeholders involved in land management, including lessees, regional natural resource management groups, the State Government, proponents and the community.

The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (the department) and the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA), with advice from the fund’s IAG, will evaluate the program against the above measures.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 2 1.2 Purpose of this implementation plan This implementation plan sets the fund’s strategic focus for the next Project register five years. It defines: Each year the department will publish a separate project register to detail • what success looks like in delivering the fund the latest: • the environmental matters that need to be improved • environmental matters required to be offset • the fund’s scope in the context of the environmental offset policies • area of vegetation and/or habitat authorised to be impacted of the Western Australian and Australian governments • area of vegetation and/or habitat impact • the priority locations where investment will be focused • objectives, performance indicators, threats and strategies to • the process to plan, implement, monitor, evaluate and improve address threats, for each environmental matter delivery of projects and the fund over time. • management actions3 to address threats for multiple environmental matters Plan review • projects being implemented to deliver the management actions. The plan will not change in the next five years unless triggered for review: • after four years to allow for replacement after five years • if the three-yearly evaluation of the implementation plan triggers it • if a memorandum of understanding between the Western Australian and Australian governments is not established within 12 months of this plan’s release.

3 A management action is a specific and measurable action that is undertaken to manage a threat to biodiversity. For example, ‘20 km of fencing to exclude cattle grazing’.

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Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 4 1.3 Background

The Pilbara have turned the Pilbara into one of Australia’s most important regions for The Pilbara bioregion is about 179 000 square kilometres and consists of mineral wealth, generating about 40 per cent of Western Australia’s gross four subregions: the Fortescue, Hamersley, Chichester and Roebourne4. domestic product.

The region is characterised by ancient and striking landscapes and has Because of industrial development, the region has been identified as one many diverse habitats, including mangroves, grassland savannahs, of 15 national biodiversity hotspots – areas with many endemic species mountain ranges, gorges, wetlands and tropical woodlands. It is where the levels of stress or future threat are high. While industry is vital to an area of very high biodiversity value, possessing high species Western Australia’s economic progress, its impacts need to be balanced richness and many endemic flora and fauna species. The bioregion with the conservation of the region’s diverse natural environment and has 150 conservation-significant flora species and the greatest reptile exceptional biodiversity. diversity in Western Australia. It is also an international hotspot for subterranean fauna. Environmental offsets Environmental offsets are actions that provide environmental benefits which The Pilbara also has a rich Aboriginal heritage. The region is home to more counterbalance the significant residual environmental impacts or risks of than 31 Aboriginal cultural groups and their culture still follows traditional a project or activity that remain after mitigation (including rehabilitation). lore patterns, processes and custodian duties. Beliefs that Dreamtime Offsets are usually undertaken outside of the mining activity area. beings – who created the land, control the water and provide food supplies The Western Australian environmental offsets framework comprises the – still exist in the land features, are strongly felt throughout the Pilbara. environmental offsets policy (2011), guidelines (2014) and register (2013). Significant deposits of minerals and the processing of liquefied natural gas In Western Australia, environmental offsets are applied to projects subject to environmental impact assessment of significant proposals (Part IV) and as a condition of permits for clearing of native vegetation (Part V) under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (EP Act). Only approval conditions under Part IV of the EP Act include contributions to the fund. 4 The Pilbara bioregion is defined the nationally agreed regionalisation was published in Thackway and Cresswell 1995, An Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia: a framework for establishing the national system of reserves. The “Pilbara” defined by this categorisation is based on a European classification of common climate, geology, landform, native vegetation and species information. It does not take into consideration Aboriginal cultural heritage values.

5 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation The Australian Government applies environmental offsets under Because of this, past offsets in the Pilbara bioregion have tended to be Parts 9 and 10 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity research-based or undertaken on pastoral leases owned by the mining Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) to protect Matters of National companies themselves. Offset projects have not always been delivered Environmental Significance5 (MNES) where these are impacted by a where needed most. development or activity. In 2011, the Western Australian Environmental Offsets Policy was released, The Western Australian Government requires offsets for a range which included provisions to combine proponent offset contributions, of environmental values (e.g. wetlands) and the MNES of the to deliver more strategic offset outcomes, especially across Western Australian Government are a subset of these values. Throughout this report Australia’s rangelands. these environmental values and MNES are collectively called ‘environmental In 2012, the Minister for Environment began requiring proponents to matters’. Where there are values that overlap, State Government agencies pay into a ‘strategic Pilbara conservation initiative’ (now the Pilbara work cooperatively with those of the Australian Government to avoid Environmental Offsets Fund) to fulfil their environmental offset obligations, duplication in setting offsets. and the federal Minister for the Environment began giving proponents the While environmental and Aboriginal cultural values in the Pilbara are often option to either implement an offset project or pay into the fund. The first inextricably linked, the environmental offsets required under both state and proponent required to pay into the fund was the Cloud Break Life of Mine federal legislation do not include provisions to offset cultural heritage and Proposal – approved in February 2012 (Ministerial Statement 899, 2012). therefore there are no ‘matters’ in this fund that relate to cultural heritage. In a report to the Minister for Environment, Cumulative environmental impacts of development in the Pilbara region (EPA 2014), the EPA provided Why a strategic offsets fund for the Pilbara? further justification for a strategic conservation initiative as a mechanism Mining companies have been delivering projects in the Pilbara to meet their to pool offset funds to achieve broad scale biodiversity conservation environmental offset obligations since 1999. However, implementation of outcomes for the Pilbara. on-ground offset projects has been difficult, because of the complexities of working on crown land with overlapping pastoral, mining and native 5 World heritage properties, national heritage places, wetlands of international importance (listed under the Ramsar title rights. Convention), listed threatened species and ecological communities, migratory species protected under international agreements, Commonwealth marine areas, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, nuclear actions (including uranium mines), and water resources, in relation to coal seam gas and large coal mining development.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 6 The Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund account was established in 2018 to give effect to the implementation conditions in the Ministerial Statements. The conditions, issued under the EP Act, set out the rate per hectare (ha) that proponents must pay for three sub-regions in the Pilbara Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) region (Chichester, Fortescue and Hamersley).

These rates are based on impacts to environmental values, including vegetation in good to excellent condition, and habitat for conservation significant species. They are estimated based on our understanding of the cost to rehabilitate the significant residual impacts of mining.

The fund will provide data to enable review of the rates over time, to ensure they are adequate to fund the improvement of environmental matters to the extent required.

Appendix 1 gives further details on how money is receipted to the fund.

7 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation 2.0 Scope of fund

Projects delivered through the fund must improve environmental Contributions under Part 9 or 10 of the EPBC Act can only be receipted matters specified for offset contributions, and align with the fund’s to the fund once the Western Australian and Australian governments have governance framework and offset policies of the Western Australian and signed a memorandum of understanding which further defines how federal Australian governments. government offsets will be receipted and expended. The roles and responsibilities for the Minister of Environment, the 2.1 Fund governance department and DBCA, the PRG and IAG are summarised in the fund’s The fund is administered by the chief executive officer of the governance framework and terms of reference for the advisory groups department, in accordance with the special purpose statement for dwer.wa.gov.au/peof/governance. the account, the Financial Management Act 2006, the Financial Management Regulations 2007 and Treasurer’s Instructions, and the fund’s governance framework dwer.wa.gov.au/peof/governance.

The special purpose statement defines what money can be received and expended from the account. The special purpose account receives offset payments that proponents must make as a condition of approval under Part IV of the EP Act or Part 9 or 10 of the EPBC Act. Payments to the fund are only made through offsets approved under Part 9 or 10 of the EPBC Act1 and under Part IV of the EP Act for biodiversity8. Offsets payable under Part V of the EP Act do not apply to the fund.

8 The Part IV offsets do not include monies required to offset greenhouse gas emissions

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 8 Minister for Environment

DWER & DBCA Special purpose statement

Governance framework Terms of reference for IAG Terms of reference for PRG Project recommendation group (PRG) Implementation advisory group (IAG) MOU between state and Commonwealth Offset projects Implementation plan

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Figure 2: Governance framework for the Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund.

9 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation 2.2 Environmental matters Projects delivered through the fund must improve one or more environmental matters specified for offset contributions. Environmental matters are those for which a significant residual impact has been identified through the environmental impact assessment process.

The environmental matters authorised to be offset so far are summarised in tables 1 and 2.

These were developed using information from the Ministerial Statements, Australian Government decision notices, and supporting environmental reports. New environmental matters will be added to the project register each year and when this plan is revised.

Aligning Western Australian and Australian government conditions relating to the fund In some instances, the State Government matters in Table 1 and the federal Matters of National Environmental Significance in Table 2 will overlap, so it is not easy to define the area which relates to a specific approval.

Both governments are working together to improve the wording of past and future conditions relating to the fund to avoid duplication, and to streamline the process to invoice for offset contributions.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 10 Table 1: Environmental matters for which offset conditions have been applied under Part IV of the EP Act as at August 2019

Indicative7 sum area for which Environmental matter Ministerial Statement number offsets are required (ha) Brockman Iron cracking clay communities of the Hamersley Range PEC 58 925, 1062, 1047 Four plant assemblages of the Wona Land System PEC 32 1006 Proposed Fortescue Marsh Conservation Reserve 3007 899 Fortescue Marsh (Marsh Land System) PEC 146 899, 915, 923, 1047 Fortescue Marsh Management Zone 440 1047 Vegetation of sand dunes of the Hamersley Range/Fortescue Valley 6 1047 (Fortescue Valley Sand Dunes) PEC Ghost bat foraging habitat 9307 1072 Groundwater-dependent vegetation to include coolibah/river red gum – conservation significant vegetation 281 899, 915 Good to excellent vegetation which is also habitat for conservation significant fauna 12 481 999, 1072 915, 923, 924, 925, 944, 947, 960, Good to excellent vegetation 85 465 993, 1000, 1005, 1006, 1012 Mulga - conservation significant vegetation 3137 899 Northern quoll denning/shelter habitat 50 993, 1006 Northern quoll foraging habitat 631 993 Pilbara leaf-nosed bat foraging habitat and night roosts 6013 993, 999 Pilbara olive python habitat 50 1006, 925 Riparian vegetation 168 1062, 1047

7 Based on information detailed in Ministerial Statements, Approval Decisions and supporting environmental reports.

11 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Table 2: Environmental matters which relate to EPBC Act offset conditions (MNES) – Australian Government conditions give proponents the option to undertake an activity or pay an equivalent to the fund

Matters of National Environmental Significance (MNES) Commonwealth decision notice number

Ghost bat foraging habitat Mining Area C Northern quoll denning/shelter habitat 2014/7275 2010/5696, 2011/6152, 2012/6391, 2012/6689, 2012/6423, 2015-7420, Northern quoll foraging habitat 2013-7055, 2014/7275 Pilbara leaf-nosed bat foraging habitat and night roosts 2011/6152, 2012/6391, 2012/6689, 2012/6423, 2014/7275 Pilbara olive python 2011/6152, 2012/6391, 2012/6689, 2012/6423, 2015/7420, 2014/7275 Greater bilby habitat 2010/569, 2015/742, 2013/7055 Night parrot habitat 2010/5696, 2013/7055 Greater bilby 2010/569, 2015/742, 2013/7055

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 12 2.3 Policy principles The offset policies of both the Western Australian and Australian Cost-effective governments define the principles that guide implementation of their Proponents must design offset projects to create value for money, leading respective environmental offsets (DWER 2011, DoEE 2012) (Appendix 2). to tangible, on-ground benefits. They must also have a high chance of success. Contributions under the EP Act can be spent on: The six policy principles listed below do not replace or contradict the policies of either jurisdiction but detail how they will apply to the fund. This • environmental offset projects located in the Pilbara IBRA helps project applicants to understand what projects will be supported for region which counterbalance the residual impacts to investment. environmental matters • administering the fund Relevant and proportionate • monitoring, reporting and evaluating the fund’s performance. The fund must improve environmental matters by a value that is equal to or greater than the impact approved to be offset. The condition of species At this stage, offset contributions specified under the EPBC Act can only be habitat and vegetation should become good to excellent. This should spent on projects, monitoring, reporting and evaluation. ideally occur in the same sub-region as where the impact occurred. A memorandum of understanding between the Western Australian and The implementation conditions in Ministerial Statements, in most cases, Australian governments will further detail how federal government offsets define the maximum area that can be impacted and the proportion of that will be administered and reported. impact which is subject to an environmental offset payment.

13 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Strategic and landscape scale Projects with an ‘on-ground’ focus may include: The program should be strategic with an emphasis on landscape-scale • revegetation (re-establishment of native vegetation in outcomes to: degraded areas) • deliver projects that are linked and integrated across the • rehabilitation (repair of ecosystem processes and management of Pilbara bioregion weeds, disease or feral animals), which may include (but not be • enable threats such as weeds, fire and feral animals to be limited to): addressed more cost-effectively at an appropriate scale –– weed management • build on existing successful regional programs (e.g. State –– management of inappropriate fire regimes Government conservation initiatives, current biosecurity –– management of introduced species management programs and ranger groups) to increase the –– management of total grazing pressure, including grazing by conservation outcomes of offset activities. introduced herbivores • restoration of species and their habitat (e.g. re-introduction, Tangible improvement building of habitat structures) Projects must lead to a tangible and measurable improvement to the • protection of high-value vegetation and habitat where it environmental matters required to be offset. Of the environmental offset complements areas targeted for rehabilitation and revegetation projects delivered through the fund, about 90 per cent will have an • activities that support design of successful offset projects, such as ‘on-ground’ focus and 10 per cent will have a ‘research’ focus. mapping of vegetation and habitat.

Monitoring, evaluation and reporting of project outputs and outcomes will be included in the delivery of all projects.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 14 Projects with a ‘research’ focus may include (but not be limited to): • standalone training or capability building (training and capacity • testing new and innovative approaches to manage threats building may be funded if it is part of a broader on-ground project) and conserve biodiversity to add value to the outcomes of • establishment of an organisation or group. on-ground management Additional to what is already required to manage biodiversity • filling gaps in understanding the best strategies and management Activities approved by the fund must be additional to those that are already actions to address threats to environmental matters required to manage or rehabilitate land. • research that adds to the understanding of the environmental This includes: value being impacted. • Conditions of approval under Part IV or V of the EP Act and/or Research projects nested within broader projects are preferred to create Parts 9 and 10 of the EPBC Act (e.g. conditions which require a focus on how the research improves management, rather than research proponents to manage their impacts during mine operation, projects with a purely academic focus. rehabilitation and closure). Offsets that will not be implemented through the fund include: • Leases as defined under the Land Administration Act 1997 • the development and writing of: (LA Act). For example, lessees must not cause, or permit –– threatened species plans contamination, pollution or environmental harm. –– conservation estate management plans • Mining tenements as defined under the Mining Act 1978 (M Act). –– healthy country plans • Management of the conservation estate under the Conservation • research that does not have a direct link to an on-ground outcome and Land Management Act 1984 (CALM Act). that improves an environmental matter • Management of pests under the Biosecurity and Agricultural • trials, research and monitoring for best-practice rehabilitation as Management Act 2007 (BAM Act). For example, land managers part of mine closure are required to manage the impact and spread of classified pests already present in Western Australia.

15 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Enduring and secure in the longer term The greatest security for offsets will result from land tenure change as The outcomes of offset projects should endure for as long as possible - it redefines both the land use and the landholder to match the intent ideally for at least 20 years. The likelihood of an offset being long term and of biodiversity offsets. Tenure change carries significant procedural enduring is largely determined by the: requirements under various legislation including the Land Administration Act • The rights and interests to land and whether they are consistent 1997 (WA), the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), the Mining Act 1978 (WA) and with the endurance of an offset. the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (WA). • Resourcing of ongoing activities that maintain the Offset projects will be delivered where they are least likely to be impacted environmental offset. or degraded later on. However, if a new development proposal impacts an • The nature of agreements with land managers and eligible interest environmental offset, then this will be taken into consideration as part of the holders that secure offsets in the longer term. The agreements environmental impact assessment and approval process. that can be put in place to ‘secure’ offsets largely fall into two categories: –– Contracts: which are tenure-blind and provide security through commercial law. –– Memorials, caveats and covenants: which allow third parties to register an interest on crown land without changing the tenure. In most cases these require landholder consent. Ownership of the land remains with the primary landholder, but the third party’s rights are formally recognised.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 16 2.4 Designing offset outcomes to endure in the longer term The biggest challenge to achieving landscape-scale offset benefits through Options to progress security for offsets may include: the fund will be the extent to which the state government – working with • tenure conversion industry, natural resource management groups and Traditional Owners – • management of part or all of pastoral leases for can access land with overlapping mining, pastoral and native title interests biodiversity conservation to deliver enduring outcomes for offsets. • identifying areas of mining lease where offsets would be viable The matrix (Table 3) and map (Figure 3) below display the different – for example areas already mined where resources have combination of rights and interests to land that apply in the Pilbara been exhausted bioregion. The combinations have been coloured to represent ease of • identifying opportunities through other government policies and access for on-ground offset projects. initiatives, including carbon farming Land access, in combination with the types of agreements that apply to • identifying areas where development impacts should be avoided land to prevent destruction or degradation of an offset (e.g. contracts, to inform environmental impact assessment caveats, covenants), define how ‘secure’ different areas may be for offsets. • using Indigenous land use agreements which align with This information will be used by the department, IAG and delivery agents environmental offsets to provide non-statutory protection, such as to design projects with a high chance of success and progress options to Commonwealth Indigenous Protected Areas or Indigenous Land improve security for offsets. Use (ILUA) agreements.

Future work to improve security for offsets International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) guidelines recognise: As this is the first strategic fund of its kind in Western Australia, options “Indigenous ownership and the customary laws, institutions and traditional to provide security for offset outcomes have not yet been fully explored. land management practices of Indigenous communities as mechanisms The State Government will be consulting with industry, natural resource that can deliver protected area management and respond to any of the management groups, and Traditional Owners to progress options to management objectives of the IUCN categories.” (IUCN 2019). improve security for offsets.

17 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Table 3: Matrix of overlapping rights and interest to land. The different combinations are coloured based on our current understanding of ease of access.

Class A reserve, conservation park, Tenure types Unallocated crown land Other crown reserves1 Pastoral leases national park and nature reserve Infrastructure2 State agreement Overlapping rights Mining lease and interests Mining licence N/exclusive native title Exclusive native title N/A N/A

1 For water protection, research, the use of Aboriginal people etc. 2 Roads, rail, borefields, towns

The different combinations of land tenure and rights and interests are coloured based on the following:

• red - ‘no go’ areas.

• orange - complex but still feasible.

• light green - relatively straightforward.

• dark green - easiest to access at this stage.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 18 LEGEND Ease of land access Ease of land access for offset delivery No go Complex Straighforward Easy Native title determined - exists (exclusive) (6 Towns Roads overview Pilbara bioregion Coastline overview wy rthern H Great No

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KALGOORLIE LEGEND NORTHAM PORT HEDLAND PERTH Ease of land access Ease of land access for offset delivery BUNBURY COLLIE ESPERANCE No go BUSSELTON ALBANY Complex Straighforward Roebourne Easy KARRATHA G r e ROEBOURNE a Native title determined - exists t N (exclusive) o r t h ( Towns e 6 r n H Roads overview w y MARBLE BAR Pilbara bioregion y w H Coastline overview l Hwy ta rthern s eat No a Gr o C SOURCE DATA t s Chichester DWER: Land security mapping e PORT HEDLAND W NTT: Native title determination outcomes h ONSLOW rt DEE: IBRA 7 subregions o N

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The priority areas in Figure 4 show where offset investment will be focused We developed the areas using the best-available information from statewide over the next five years. They represent locations where projects are most datasets and advice from stakeholders. They are a starting point, and will likely to benefit multiple environmental matters in proximity to one another, be updated as new information becomes available, including data from the based on the data currently available. Index of Biodiversity Surveys for Assessments (IBSA).

Locations of priority environmental matters are overlain on the ease-of- We are also collating datasets that represent the work of other natural access map in Figure 5 to show where high-value areas for environmental resource management programs in the region (e.g. research, weed, feral matters (the red and orange dots) intersect with areas of least constraint animal, other offset projects) to inform the ongoing design and delivery of (areas shaded green). projects through the fund.

This information will guide the design of offset projects so they are cost- Our method to collate, analyse and represent the spatial information for the effective and have a high chance of success. priority areas is summarised in Appendix 3.

Priority areas include: • Area 1: Chichester sub-bioregion – area south of Port Hedland centred on the Great Northern Highway. • Area 2: Hamersley sub-region – area to the far east of the sub-region abutting the North West Coastal Highway. • Area 3: Fortescue sub-bioregion – the mid Fortescue Valley.

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y Environmental matter - w H 1 threatened and priority fauna l wy a rn H t species Northe s Great SOURCE DATA a o Environmental matter - priority DWER: Neighbourhood analysis mapping C t DBCA: Threatened and priority fauna, s Chichester ecological communities e PORT HEDLAND Threatened and priority ecological W ( Towns h 6 communities ONSLOW rt o DEE: IBRA 7 subregions N Roads overview 1 Pilbara bioregion Date: 7/11/2019, Map Version: 5 NULLAGINE 2 Coastline overview Roebourne KARRATHA G r e ROEBOURNE a t N Legend o LEGEND r WITTENOOM t h e ¯ Priority areas for offsets r Density of priority fauna n required to be offset, in H w MARBLE BAR 0 25 50 100 close proximity to one y y another w Kilometres 3 H l 1 Fortescue Value ta TOM PRICE s High : 1634 SOURCE DATA a Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia, 1994 o Hamersley DWER: Neighbourhood analysis mapping C Scale: 1:2,100,000 at A3 t DBCA: Threatened and priority fauna, s Chichester Low : 1 e Threatened and priority ecological W h communities ONSLOW rt o LOCALITY MAP DEE: IBRA 7 subregions N KUNUNURRA Fortescue Marsh management 1 zone NULLAGINE BROOME PARABURDOO Date: 7/11/2019, Map Version: 5 Environmental matter - 2 PORT HEDLAND threatened and priority fauna KARRATHA NEWMAN wy species rthern H Great No Environmental matter - priority WITTENOOM CARNARVON ecological communities ¯ PORT HEDLAND (6 Towns 0 25 50 100 GERALDTON Roads overview 3 KALGOORLIE Pilbara bioregion Kilometres PERTH NORTHAM Fortescue Roebourne TOM PRICE BUNBURY COLLIE Coastline overview ESPERANCE Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia, 1994 KARRATHA G r Hamersley BUSSELTON ALBANY Scale: 1:2,100,000 at A3 e ROEBOURNE a t N o r t h e LOCALITY MAP r KUNUNURRA n H w BROOME y PARABURDOO MARBLE BAR

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The fund will be adaptively managed to plan, implement, monitor, evaluate and adjust its delivery over time (Figure 6). The approach is consistent with the Open Standards for Conservation, see cmp-openstandards.org/.

The department and DCBA, with advice from the IAG, will define the desired outcomes for each environmental matter for the longer term and each funding round.

We will put out a guideline for applicants with each grant round and projects will be selected based on the selection criteria in Appendix 4.

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23 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation 4.1 Planning delivery of the fund

Roles and responsibilities Either way, the logic of how a project will deliver required outcomes for The department will define the total area of authorised and actual impact for environmental matters will need to be made explicit in a ‘project logic’ each environmental matter and, with advice from the IAG define the desired or ‘results chain’ in the project plan. This will enable assumptions to be outcomes for each environmental matter and the program evaluation challenged during refinement of project design and allow the project to be framework (Appendix 5). properly evaluated once complete.

Project applicants and the department will design projects with advice from Specific and measurable objectives for the project should be defined the IAG and other government departments as necessary. for annual and three-yearly timeframes. The outcomes of a project at a 10-year timeframe will also need to be defined because real change at a Project design landscape scale for conservation and restoration projects may take many The approach to design projects that the fund invests in will be tailored years, especially in highly variable, spatially heterogeneous and episodic based on the complexity of delivery and the information available. environments like the Pilbara. In some instances, where there is sufficient information, we will request Where there are substantial gaps in knowledge about the best strategies applications for projects that have been pre-designed with input and management actions to address threats to environmental matters, from the IAG. then ‘informing’ projects will be required to ensure that projects have a high In other cases, we will request project applicants take the lead to design chance of success. A higher proportion of ‘informing’ projects is expected projects, as they are more likely to have access to the most current in the early stages of the fund’s delivery to create a solid foundation for information and have practical experience to leverage existing programs future on-ground activities. and design projects with a high a chance of success.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 24 The design of projects should, wherever possible, build on successful Priority threats to biodiversity conservation in the Pilbara, identified through regional programs, planning and research, including: existing investigations (CSIRO 2014; Pilbara Corridors 2016), include: • the Pilbara conservation strategy (DBCA 2017) • total grazing pressure from feral herbivores (e.g. cows, donkeys • the Pilbara catchment action plan (Pilbara Corridors 2017) and camels) • species recovery plans • inappropriate fire regimes • the existing environmental offset projects of mining companies • introduced predators (e.g. cats, foxes, dogs, cane toads) • ecologically sustainable rangeland management plans • invasive plants (e.g. Mesquite, Parkinsonia, kapok, ruby dock, Passiflora, aquatic weeds) • state government (e.g. DBCA, DPIRD) and non-state government programs to manage fire, weeds and feral animals • changes in hydrological regime • Priority threat management for Pilbara species of conservation • mining and infrastructure development. significance (CSIRO 2014).

25 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation 4.2 Implementing projects

Roles and responsibilities • entering into agreements with parties with rights and interests to The department will seek project applications by: land where offset activities are to take place (where necessary) • developing guidelines for project proponents which define the: • managing an online portal to capture project reporting data –– outcome sought for environmental matters in each • evaluating project success, with advice from the PRG and IAG. funding round Project proponents will: –– project selection criteria for the fund (Appendix 4) • be invited to regional information sessions or workshops to clarify –– evidence that must be provided to support a requirements and foster collaborative project design project application • publicly advertising and/or requesting quotes from not-for-profit, • submit project plans that address project selection criteria and are government or private sectors to implement projects either supported by project logic annually or biennially • submit six-monthly project reporting on project milestones and • holding information sessions in Perth and the Pilbara to explain the annual reports. process to apply for projects and be notified of the outcome, and The PRG will: to encourage collaborative project design. • assess project plans against selection criteria (Appendix 4) and The department will manage and administer projects by: recommend projects to be funded to the Minister for Environment • entering into contracts with project proponents to deliver against • provide advice on six-monthly and annual progress reports and the accepted project plan whether projects can continue, be adjusted or discontinue. • supporting project proponents to get access to land and security for offsets

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 26 Project reporting The portal will provide a link between on-ground outputs and the objectives Project proponents must report against agreed activities and outputs for each environmental matter. from their project plan every six months, as well as submit an annual Indicators and measures will be defined in the portal that best capture progress report to the department via a public online portal (Table 4). The monitoring and reporting data related to management actions. Where portal will capture the location of the activity and quantify project activities possible, this will include creation of data that can be used across reporting and outputs. tools like MERIT. The Australian Government’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement Tool (MERIT) – developed for the National Landcare Program – has activities and measures detailed in a schema. This will be used as a starting point and enables data to be fed back into regional, state and national data collection and monitoring programs if required.

Table 4: Purpose of six-monthly and annual reporting

Purpose Audience What information will be provided • Accountability of projects against deliverables • Department project staff • Project data • Incremental monitoring of activity against project register • PRG • Quantitative data to enable assessment of actual vs planned activity in the project register • Loaded into online portal • Spatial data/maps to provide an overview of where activities have been carried out

27 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation 4.3. Evaluating success of projects and the program The fund’s evaluation framework connects the project and program Roles and responsibilities monitoring, reporting and evaluation. Evaluation of the fund will The department and DBCA, with advice from the PRG and IAG, are question whether: responsible for: • environmental matters can and are being improved to the • coordinating the collection of data to support program monitoring extent required • undertaking an annual review of the project register • the program is being delivered consistent environmental offset • developing annual financial reports policies of the Western Australian and Australian governments • providing reports to the Office of the Auditor General as required • delivery of the fund is consistent with the fund’s • undertaking an initial, midterm review of operation of the fund governance framework to check it is being delivered in accordance with state and • delivery of the fund builds on successful programs already commonwealth offset policies and the governance framework. underway, and with regional stakeholders including ranger groups. • evaluating the implementation plan every three years with advice The key evaluation questions, performance indicators and data sources from the IAG taking into consideration: that will be used to evaluate the fund’s success are summarised in the –– objectives, performance indicators and monitoring data evaluation framework (Appendix 5). –– project evaluation reports –– case studies and stakeholder feedback.

The department will publish the project register on our website each year and the implementation plan evaluation report every four years.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 28 Table 5: Summary of the annual review process Annual review of the project register What information Purpose Audience Ensuring that learnings from the program are fed back into its delivery will be provided will be important, particularly in the first few years. The annual reviews • Continual improvement • Full report to: • Summary of actual vs provide an opportunity to support this adaptive management approach and through: - DWER project staff planned activity. will include: - challenging - IAG • Map showing all assumptions on reported activity. • review of progress against the register of projects with advice from - project proponents how best to improve • Summary of method the IAG and invited experts • Summary to: environmental matters used to define - DWER and DBCA • where appropriate, workshops to bring together project - sharing lessons management actions. DGs proponents to discuss progress, lessons learned and incorporate learned across project • Summary of fund - DoEE latest knowledge proponents management - EPA performance. • a rapid review to check whether the management framework for - assessment of actual against planned activity - proponents that the fund is effective, adequately resourced, and complies with the in the project register. have paid to offset governance framework. their environmental impacts This process will encourage learning to inform adaptive management. We - Minister for will manage this internally (see Table 5). Environment.

29 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Three-yearly program evaluation Program monitoring Evaluation of the implementation plan will be completed by the third year of The program monitoring requirements will be developed once the the five-year implementation plan cycle based on the evaluation framework objectives and performance indicators for each environmental matter have in Appendix 5. This will assess whether the fund’s outcomes and objectives been defined. The program monitoring will provide data and information are being delivered, and inform adaptive management of the fund. to assess objectives for each environmental matter at priority area and landscape scale, and include (but not be limited to): In preparing the evaluation report, the department, DBCA and the IAG will: • vegetation condition – remote sensing and on-ground surveys • consider project evaluation reports • habitat and species surveys including abundance or occupancy • consider annual financial reports from the department and/or changes in survivorship • identify and evaluate whether the implementation plan achieved its • mapping of weeds, fire regime, and presence/absence of stated objectives during the three-year period introduced predators and feral herbivores. • identify whether the fund was managed in accordance with the governance framework • make recommendations on how the subsequent implementation plan should be revised • prepare an implementation plan evaluation report.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 30 Appendix 1: How money is receipted to the fund

Impact Reconciliation procedures and reports The actual area of impacts relating to each environmental matter will be defined based on the Impact Reconciliation Procedure (IRP) and biennial Impact Reconciliation Reports (IRR) submitted by proponents.

An IRP advises the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation on the methodology that will be used to calculate the area of vegetation cleared (or the area of clearance of any other environmental values listed in the implementation conditions).

An IRP is to be submitted prior to the commencement of ground-disturbing activities and usually only once for a proposal, unless the proponent requests or the CEO requires this document to be updated. Once approved by the CEO, the IRP will be published on the Western Australian Environmental Offsets Register offsetsregister.wa.gov.au.

IRRs must usually be submitted biennially once an IRP is approved. The purpose of the IRR is to advise the CEO on the amount of clearing that has been undertaken within each year of the biennial reporting period. The IRR defines the amount to be invoiced for areas cleared and/or impacted during the biennial reporting period. In some instances, the conditions for conservation of significant fauna habitat will relate to multiple species. Where it is a requirement, proponents will submit impact data relating to each species in their reconciliation reports.

31 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Pilbara Environmental Offset Fund rates • Case-by-case rate where there are impacts to particularly The amount invoiced will be based on the rate/ha set for each sub-region in significant or sensitive environmental values that do not suit a the Pilbara bioregion, adjusted for consumer price index (CPI). standardised value. This may include values such as reserves, threatened or Priority Ecological Communities, threatened and The rates are set based on impact to environmental values with a: priority species or ecological communities, locally endemic • Base rate for impacts to only native vegetation in good to excellent species or associated with a restricted habitat type, species condition8, which includes impacts to fauna habitat (including with a restricted distribution, wetlands and significant landforms. threatened fauna). (EPA 2016). • Higher rate for impacts to other important or some types of The rates for each sub-region in the Pilbara and information on how the specialised environmental values. Examples of these types of rates are set are available on our website dwer.wa.gov.au/peof/. values are listed in the Residual Impact Significance Model in the WA environmental offsets guidelines, and may include impacts to riparian vegetation, Priority Ecological Communities, important vegetation types, and specialised fauna habitat (DWER 2011).

8 Good to excellent condition – as defined in Environmental Protection Authority 2016, Technical Guidance – Flora and Vegetation Surveys for Environmental Impact Assessment, EPA, Western Australia, or any subsequent revisions of this guide.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 32 Appendix 2: State and federal offset policies

This table summarises the offset policies of the Western Australian and Australian governments.

WA offset policy principles Environmental offsets will: • only be considered after avoidance and mitigation options have been pursued • be cost-effective, as well as relevant and proportionate to the significance of the environmental value being impacted • be based on sound environmental information and knowledge • be applied within a framework of adaptive management • be focused on longer-term strategic outcomes • are not appropriate for all projects.

Commonwealth offset policy principles Suitable offsets must: • deliver an overall conservation outcome that improves or maintains the viability of the aspect of the environment that is protected by national environment law and affected by the proposed action • be built around direct offsets but may include other compensatory measures • be in proportion to the level of statutory protection that applies to the protected matter • be of a size and scale proportionate to the residual impacts on the protected matter • effectively account for and manage the risks of the offset not succeeding • be additional to what is already required, determined by law or planning regulations or agreed to under other schemes or programs (this does not preclude the recognition of state or territory offsets that may be suitable as offsets under the EPBC Act for the same action) • be efficient, effective, timely, transparent, scientifically robust and reasonable • have transparent governance arrangements including being able to be readily measured, monitored, audited and enforced.

In assessing the suitability of an offset, Western Australian Government decision-making will be: • informed by scientifically robust information and incorporate the precautionary principle in the absence of scientific certainty • conducted in a consistent and transparent manner.

33 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Offset policies explained in the context of the Pilbara Environmental Offset Fund Offset projects must be:

Relevant and proportionate: • Environmental matters are improved – to the same or greater value than the development impact being offset. • The improvement of species habitat and vegetation should, ideally, occur in the same sub-region as where the impact occurred.

Cost effective: • Offset projects must be designed to create value for money and have a high chance of success. • Delivery of the program must focus on tangible, on-ground benefits for environmental matters.

Strategic and landscape scale: • The program should be designed so it is strategic and has landscape-scale outcomes. It should be linked and integrated, build on other successful regional programs, and be delivered at the scale appropriate to the threat being addressed.

Enduring and secure in the longer term: • The outcomes of offset projects should be designed to endure for as long as possible, ideally for at least 20 years. • The department will enter into agreements with parties with interests and rights to land where appropriate, to define the arrangements to guarantee offset security and longevity. The scope of agreements will depend on the degree to which environmental offset projects align with, or affect rights and interests to land.

Tangible: • Environmental matters must be tangibly improved and lead to a measurable improvement to vegetation and/or habitat. • Of the environmental offset projects delivered through the fund, approximately 90 per cent will have an on-ground focus and 10 per cent will have a research focus. Additional to legislative obligations: • Environmental offset projects must be in addition to activities already required as a condition of approval or lease, or a legislative requirement.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 34 Appendix 3: Method to develop priority areas

High-value areas for environmental matters The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation has analysed statewide datasets to inform the planning and management of offsets deployed through the Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund.

The environmental matters specified for offset into the fund (up to February 2018) were extracted from Threatened and Priority Fauna (DBCA 2019) and Threatened and Priority Ecological Communities (DBCA 2019), and used to identify priority focus areas for the initial phase of offset projects.

Within each 1 km by 1 km area within the Pilbara bioregion, environmental matters were analysed according to their location, species presence and conservation priority. The cumulative rank of these attributes in each 1 km by 1 km area was summed to highlight areas where projects would be expected to achieve offset value (Figure 8).

Not all environmental matters could be captured through the use of these statewide datasets. The Wona Land System is not represented in its entirety as it is not yet available as part of the Threatened and Priority Ecological Communities (DBCA 2019) dataset. Good to excellent vegetation, the environmental matter most impacted under the EP Act, has also not been represented as no datasets currently exist that represent vegetation type or quality for the extent of the Pilbara bioregion.

35 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation The priority areas identified as significant for environmental matter presence Areas constrained for offsets were then further analysed using neighbourhood analysis to weight the Several features constrain land access and ‘security’ for offsets. The list locations of interest by their distance, or ‘closeness’ to other surrounding of statewide features that have been initially identified as ‘no-go’ areas for locations of interest. This analysis formulated the three boundaries identified offset projects include: as focus areas for offset projects. • building infrastructure (built structures and towns) (LGATE 2019) The mapping focuses on datasets that are complete and region-wide, to • project development and activity areas for mines (DWER 2019) illustrate a consistent and objective distribution of environmental matters • mining lease, mineral lease and general purpose lease (current across the entire Pilbara bioregion. This approach endeavours to reduce and pending) tenements (DMIRS 2019) the potential bias to any specific environmental matter or location within the • State Agreements (DMIRS 2017) region. The density of data available to represent and rank environmental matters is shown in Figure 10. • petroleum pipelines (DMIRS 2019) • railway corridors (DMIRS 2019) The resulting priority area map (Figure 5) identifies areas of environmental priority by both conservation significance and proximity to other • road corridors (LGATE 2019) environmental matter locations. • 3C hazardous/industrial waste priority sites (DPLH 2019). The resulting ‘no go’ constraint map (Figure 9) was used as an input to develop the land access categories in Table 3.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 36 LEGEND Combined rank of Location of priority environmental matters environmental matters based on conservation priority 30 29 22 21 16 15 14 12 wy 11 thern H reat Nor 9 G 8 PORT HEDLAND 7 4 2 1 Roebourne Proposed Fortescue Marsh KARRATHA G r conservation reserve e ROEBOURNE a t N Fortescue Marsh management o r t zones 1a and 1b h e r ( Towns n 6 H w Roads overview y MARBLE BAR y Pilbara bioregion w H l Coastline overview ta s a Roebourne o C t s Chichester e W SOURCE DATA h ONSLOW rt DWER: Environmental matter mapping o DEE: IBRA 7 subregions N NULLAGINE Date: 14/08/2019, Map Version: 9

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KALGOORLIE PERTH NORTHAM BUNBURY COLLIE ESPERANCE BUSSELTON ALBANY Appendix 4: Project selection criteria

The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation will release a guidance for projects as part of each round of project funding. We will run regional information sessions to explain the project selection criteria and process to submit applications for funding and to support the collaborative design of projects.

In most instances, the process to seek project plans will be staged to promote collaboration, leverage against existing successful regional programs, and establish the viability of projects before they are fully funded. Staging project applications will be particularly important when offset projects are proposed in areas involving multiple stakeholders with rights and interest to land.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 40 Table 6: Project selection criteria

Projects must: (primary fund outcomes) • Improve at least one of the environmental matters listed in the project register to the Pilbara Environmental Offset Fund’s implementation plan. • Be designed to align with the offset principles of the Western Australian and Australian governments and the implementation principles in Chapter 2 so that the outcomes of projects: • tangibly and measurably improve environmental matters • are value for money and have a high chance of success • are strategic and have landscape-scale outcomes where achievable • are long term and enduring (ideally outcomes will endure for at least 20 years) – in some cases this will require agreements to be established between the department and parties with interests or rights to the land • are additional to activities that are already required as a condition of approval or lease or a legislative requirement. Projects should: (secondary fund outcomes) • Benefit multiple environmental matters (as per Table 1) and other species of conservation significance. Projects that address matters with high conservation status will be given priority. • Be connected to other areas of conservation significance and/or create corridors across the landscape. • Be guided by the high-priority areas for environmental matters and the land access mapping. Where practicable, these datasets will be made accessible to project proponents. • Build on successful programs already underway to improve environmental matters. The department will support project proponents to identify regional programs already underway. • Be co-designed and co-delivered with Traditional Owners, and implemented wherever possible with Aboriginal people and ranger groups. This includes aligning offset projects with healthy country plans and including Aboriginal people as part of project development and site visits. • Be developed in collaboration with other regional stakeholders involved in land management, including lessees, regional natural resource management groups, state government agencies, not-for-profit and community organisations. • Provide regional employment outcomes including opportunities for Traditional Owners and inclusion of local knowledge and expertise.

41 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Once the viability of a project is established against the outcomes listed above, applicants will need to: 1. Prepare a project plan that outlines, at a minimum: a) Project title. b) Project objectives and intended outcomes. c) Description of area and management actions to be undertaken. Actions may be staged to reflect the order of information required and to take into consideration time required to establish land access and security arrangements. d) Description of leverage of in-kind and/or monetary support. e) Timelines and milestones, including the timelines to establish agreements for land access and offset longevity. f) Specific and measurable project success criteria. g) Monitoring to assess project success, building on other regional programs and methods, e.g. WARMs, AusPlots, and/or EPA guidelines. h) Risks to project delivery, and contingency measures. i) Stakeholders that have been consulted as part of development of the project plan, what their views are and how these have been addressed. The project plan should identify what approvals and notifications will need to be in place to enable land access and longevity for the outcomes of the project. j) Checklist summarising how a project is consistent with the implementation principles (e.g. value for money; provides landscape-scale outcomes; is secure, additional and direct). k) Risks to implementing project consistent with implementation principles and contingency measures. l) Promotion, publicity, publication and data ownership arrangements, aligning with the specifications in the fund’s governance framework. m) Reporting and finances required for the project. n) Qualifications and previous performance to deliver projects. 2. If successful, enter into a contract with the chief executive officer of the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation which complies with the State Government procurement policy (http://www.finance.wa.gov.au/cms/State_Supply_Commission/Procurement_Policy/Procurement_Policy.aspx) and the Aboriginal procurement policy (https://www.finance.wa.gov.au/cms/Government_Procurement/Policies/Aboriginal_Procurement_Policy.aspx) to contract projects 3. Upload reporting data to an online portal Project proponents must report to the department against agreed activities and outputs in their project management plan via an online portal that is publicly available. This includes a six-monthly and annual report in a form specified in the project contract(s) that enables the department and the IAG to track progress against the milestones in the project plan.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 42 Appendix 5: Indicative Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund evaluation framework

Summary Outcome/impact Indicators Means of verification Process evaluation Timeframe (explaining the objectives) (Evaluation questions) (how to measure the achievements) (how to collect the information for the indicators) Questions and data sources Long-term Primary outcomes To what extent have cumulative Preliminary (as per implementation plan): • Results chains review at program level (annual; expert panel with IAG). Is the program being delivered in line with government policy and the governance structure? outcomes environmental matters been met? • Outcomes are being • Predicted % outcomes met as per results chains for cumulative environmental matter • Full program evaluation (combined meta-analysis of Priority Area evaluations; three-yearly). • Transparent and accountable fund administration, documentation and communication. (10+ years) met for the cumulative • Are mangement action targets and associated key threats. • Project register summarising delivered outputs from projects. • Cost efficiency, including leverage opportunities. area of impact for each being met? Program evaluation: • Effective performance evaluation and continual improvement, informed by sound science, environmental matter. • What impact are we seeing at a • Actual % outcomes met as per results chains for cumulative environmental matter including an appropriate consideration of traditional knowledge. • Activities have led to a landscape scale (Priority Area scale)? and associated key threats (compare with predicted; were results chains valid?). • Clear roles and responsibilities. discernible difference in the • % activities completed (summarising from projects). landscape. Evaluation method: Has the program met the expectations Preliminary (as per implementation plan): • Project plans, six-monthly and annual project reports. • Program has met offset • Ongoing review of three-yearly (the first one will be after two years of the fund operating and set out in the state and Commonwealth policy requirements. • Tangible and on-ground, including consideration of: • Project evaluations. then every three years after that) process evaluations with the plan evaluations – are issues policy? For example, is it: - like-for-like (gains of the same kind of species, habitats, ecosystems or ecological functions as and recommendations being implemented? • Relevant (equivalent)? those impacted) • Proportionate? - proximity (how close to original SRI, geographic distance) • Additional? - likelihood of success (what is the chance of it working? Is success possible?) • Permanent (enduring, enforceable, - effectiveness (demonstrated logic or results chain to show how activities will affect environmental longer term)? matter and relevant threats). • Timely? • Proportionate? - effectiveness (how big will be impact be? + 5 Northern Quolls or + 1000 Northern Quolls) - geographic scope (how big an area will be affected?). • Additional? (Will the program achieve conservation outcomes above and beyond results that would have occurred if the program had not taken place?) • Permanent? (Enduring, enforceable, longer term) - duration of positive impact against development impact and predicted long term ‘net impact’. • Timely? Degree of alignment of positive impact against development (negative) impact.

43 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Summary Outcome/impact Indicators Means of verification Process evaluation Timeframe (explaining the objectives) (Evaluation questions) (how to measure the achievements) (how to collect the information for the indicators) Questions and data sources Long-term Primary outcomes To what extent have cumulative Preliminary (as per implementation plan): • Results chains review at program level (annual; expert panel with IAG). Is the program being delivered in line with government policy and the governance structure? outcomes environmental matters been met? • Outcomes are being • Predicted % outcomes met as per results chains for cumulative environmental matter • Full program evaluation (combined meta-analysis of Priority Area evaluations; three-yearly). • Transparent and accountable fund administration, documentation and communication. (10+ years) met for the cumulative • Are mangement action targets and associated key threats. • Project register summarising delivered outputs from projects. • Cost efficiency, including leverage opportunities. area of impact for each being met? Program evaluation: • Effective performance evaluation and continual improvement, informed by sound science, environmental matter. • What impact are we seeing at a • Actual % outcomes met as per results chains for cumulative environmental matter including an appropriate consideration of traditional knowledge. • Activities have led to a landscape scale (Priority Area scale)? and associated key threats (compare with predicted; were results chains valid?). • Clear roles and responsibilities. discernible difference in the • % activities completed (summarising from projects). landscape. Evaluation method: Has the program met the expectations Preliminary (as per implementation plan): • Project plans, six-monthly and annual project reports. • Program has met offset • Ongoing review of three-yearly (the first one will be after two years of the fund operating and set out in the state and Commonwealth policy requirements. • Tangible and on-ground, including consideration of: • Project evaluations. then every three years after that) process evaluations with the plan evaluations – are issues policy? For example, is it: - like-for-like (gains of the same kind of species, habitats, ecosystems or ecological functions as and recommendations being implemented? • Relevant (equivalent)? those impacted) • Proportionate? - proximity (how close to original SRI, geographic distance) • Additional? - likelihood of success (what is the chance of it working? Is success possible?) • Permanent (enduring, enforceable, - effectiveness (demonstrated logic or results chain to show how activities will affect environmental longer term)? matter and relevant threats). • Timely? • Proportionate? - effectiveness (how big will be impact be? + 5 Northern Quolls or + 1000 Northern Quolls) - geographic scope (how big an area will be affected?). • Additional? (Will the program achieve conservation outcomes above and beyond results that would have occurred if the program had not taken place?) • Permanent? (Enduring, enforceable, longer term) - duration of positive impact against development impact and predicted long term ‘net impact’. • Timely? Degree of alignment of positive impact against development (negative) impact.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 44 Summary Outcome/impact Indicators Means of verification Process evaluation Timeframe (explaining the objectives) (Evaluation questions) (how to measure the achievements) (how to collect the information for the indicators) Questions and data sources Secondary outcomes What environmental co-benefits have Preliminary (as per implementation plan): • Methodology to be informed through program design. been achieved? • Predicted % outcomes met as per results chains for each environmental matter. • Remote sensing framework likely to be useful. Program evaluation: • Actual % outcomes met as per results chains for cumulative environmental matter (compare with predicted; were results chains valid?). • Quantification/documentation of unforeseen benefits. Has the program contributed to social • Increase/decrease of environmental/agricultural business in Pilbara region. • ABS Statistics and program procurement statistics. co-benefits, particularly local jobs? • Increase/decrease of people employed in environmental/agricultural industry in Pilbara region. • ABS Statistics, project management plans and three yearly evaluations including • Increase/decrease of Indigenous people employed/working on country. case studies. • Number of projects involving two or more organisations. • Program/project management plans. Three-year evaluation including case studies. • Program/project management plans. Three-year evaluation including case studies.

Short / medium- • Outputs and short-term To what extent have cumulative Preliminary (as per implementation plan): • Results chains review for Priority areas and themes (annual, expert panel with IAG?). Is the program being delivered in line with defined principles and governance structure? term outcomes outcomes are being environmental matters been improved? • Environmental matters (specific targets/assets) to be addressed and relevant metrics – e.g. ha, • Transparent and accountable fund administration. met for each cumulative (3 – 10 years) • Have cumulative environmental number of habitats (e.g. caves), populations, individuals. • Cost efficiency, including leverage opportunities. environmental matter as matters been addressed? • Threats to be addressed and relevant metrics – e.g. ha, frequency, populations, individuals. • Effective performance evaluation and continual improvement. determined by results chains To what extent? • Management actions to be undertaken. • Clear roles and responsibilities. • Have threats been addressed? • Assessment of activities of benefit to multiple cumulative environmental matter. Is the program adhering to relevant policies and guidelines? To what extent? • Roll-up of explanation/justification for sum of proposed actions? Has the program followed adaptive management principles in terms of process and delivery? • Have relevant management actions been undertaken? To what extent? Is the program being delivered effectively and in line with good management processes? Monitoring (post project; roll-up of project outputs) • Monitoring/survey info from projects (synthesis of project data using MERI fields). • Has the program achieved synergy Evaluation method: or co-benefit for environmental • Cumulative environmental matters (specific targets/assets) addressed and relevant metrics Three-yearly external evaluation drawing on information including but not limited to: – e.g. ha, number of habitats (e.g. caves), populations, individuals. matters? • Financial reports. • Threats addressed and relevant metrics – e.g. ha, frequency, populations, individuals. Are the assumptions in the results • Organisational charts, TORs and minutes. chains for each asset correct? (Are we • Management actions undertaken. • Results chains from design team. seeing the impact that we expected?) • Assessment of activities benefiting multiple cumulative environmental matter. • Project plans. • Project evaluation reports. • Case studies. • Stakeholder feedback (qualitative).

45 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Summary Outcome/impact Indicators Means of verification Process evaluation Timeframe (explaining the objectives) (Evaluation questions) (how to measure the achievements) (how to collect the information for the indicators) Questions and data sources Secondary outcomes What environmental co-benefits have Preliminary (as per implementation plan): • Methodology to be informed through program design. been achieved? • Predicted % outcomes met as per results chains for each environmental matter. • Remote sensing framework likely to be useful. Program evaluation: • Actual % outcomes met as per results chains for cumulative environmental matter (compare with predicted; were results chains valid?). • Quantification/documentation of unforeseen benefits. Has the program contributed to social • Increase/decrease of environmental/agricultural business in Pilbara region. • ABS Statistics and program procurement statistics. co-benefits, particularly local jobs? • Increase/decrease of people employed in environmental/agricultural industry in Pilbara region. • ABS Statistics, project management plans and three yearly evaluations including • Increase/decrease of Indigenous people employed/working on country. case studies. • Number of projects involving two or more organisations. • Program/project management plans. Three-year evaluation including case studies. • Program/project management plans. Three-year evaluation including case studies.

Short / medium- • Outputs and short-term To what extent have cumulative Preliminary (as per implementation plan): • Results chains review for Priority areas and themes (annual, expert panel with IAG?). Is the program being delivered in line with defined principles and governance structure? term outcomes outcomes are being environmental matters been improved? • Environmental matters (specific targets/assets) to be addressed and relevant metrics – e.g. ha, • Transparent and accountable fund administration. met for each cumulative (3 – 10 years) • Have cumulative environmental number of habitats (e.g. caves), populations, individuals. • Cost efficiency, including leverage opportunities. environmental matter as matters been addressed? • Threats to be addressed and relevant metrics – e.g. ha, frequency, populations, individuals. • Effective performance evaluation and continual improvement. determined by results chains To what extent? • Management actions to be undertaken. • Clear roles and responsibilities. • Have threats been addressed? • Assessment of activities of benefit to multiple cumulative environmental matter. Is the program adhering to relevant policies and guidelines? To what extent? • Roll-up of explanation/justification for sum of proposed actions? Has the program followed adaptive management principles in terms of process and delivery? • Have relevant management actions been undertaken? To what extent? Is the program being delivered effectively and in line with good management processes? Monitoring (post project; roll-up of project outputs) • Monitoring/survey info from projects (synthesis of project data using MERI fields). • Has the program achieved synergy Evaluation method: or co-benefit for environmental • Cumulative environmental matters (specific targets/assets) addressed and relevant metrics Three-yearly external evaluation drawing on information including but not limited to: – e.g. ha, number of habitats (e.g. caves), populations, individuals. matters? • Financial reports. • Threats addressed and relevant metrics – e.g. ha, frequency, populations, individuals. Are the assumptions in the results • Organisational charts, TORs and minutes. chains for each asset correct? (Are we • Management actions undertaken. • Results chains from design team. seeing the impact that we expected?) • Assessment of activities benefiting multiple cumulative environmental matter. • Project plans. • Project evaluation reports. • Case studies. • Stakeholder feedback (qualitative).

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 46 Summary Outcome/impact Indicators Means of verification Process evaluation Timeframe (explaining the objectives) (Evaluation questions) (how to measure the achievements) (how to collect the information for the indicators) Questions and data sources Has the program met the expectations Preliminary (as per implementation plan): • Collation of proposed project information from project plans. • Results chains from design team. set out in the state and Commonwealth • Relevant – tangible link between proposed offset project/activity(s) and the cumulative environmental • Project plans. guidelines? matter, including consideration of: • Project evaluation reports. • Relevant. - like-for-like (gains of the same kind of species, habitats, ecosystems or ecological functions as • Case studies. • Proportionate. those impacted) • Stakeholder feedback (qualitative). • Additionality. - proximity (how close to original SRI, geographic distance?) • Permanence (enduring, enforceable, - likelihood of success (what is the chance of it working? Is success possible?) longer term). - effectiveness (demonstrated logic or results chain to show how activities will affect cumulative • Timeliness. environmental matter and relevant threats). • Proportionate? - effectiveness (how big will be impact be? + 5 northern quolls or +1000 northern quolls) - geographic scope (how big an area will be affected?). • Additional? (Will the program achieve conservation outcomes above and beyond results that would have occurred if the program had not taken place?) • Permanent? (Enduring, enforceable, longer term) - duration of positive impact against development (negative) impact and predicted long term ‘net impact’. • Timely? (Degree of alignment of positive impact against development (negative) impact?)

Projects in Priority Areas are Has the program delivered local jobs Preliminary (as per implementation plan): • Collation of ACTUAL project information (standard dataset as per agreed indicators). generating social co-benefits. and achieved social co-benefits? • # of proposed projects. • % of proposed projects to be contracted to local orgs. • % of proposed projects to be contracted to Indigenous orgs. • # of cross-sector partners on proposed projects (as per project proposals). Evaluation (post project): • Collation of actual project information (standard dataset as per agreed indicators). • # of projects successfully executed. • % of projects contracted to local orgs. • % of projects contracted to Indigenous orgs. • # of cross-sector partners on projects.

47 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Summary Outcome/impact Indicators Means of verification Process evaluation Timeframe (explaining the objectives) (Evaluation questions) (how to measure the achievements) (how to collect the information for the indicators) Questions and data sources Has the program met the expectations Preliminary (as per implementation plan): • Collation of proposed project information from project plans. • Results chains from design team. set out in the state and Commonwealth • Relevant – tangible link between proposed offset project/activity(s) and the cumulative environmental • Project plans. guidelines? matter, including consideration of: • Project evaluation reports. • Relevant. - like-for-like (gains of the same kind of species, habitats, ecosystems or ecological functions as • Case studies. • Proportionate. those impacted) • Stakeholder feedback (qualitative). • Additionality. - proximity (how close to original SRI, geographic distance?) • Permanence (enduring, enforceable, - likelihood of success (what is the chance of it working? Is success possible?) longer term). - effectiveness (demonstrated logic or results chain to show how activities will affect cumulative • Timeliness. environmental matter and relevant threats). • Proportionate? - effectiveness (how big will be impact be? + 5 northern quolls or +1000 northern quolls) - geographic scope (how big an area will be affected?). • Additional? (Will the program achieve conservation outcomes above and beyond results that would have occurred if the program had not taken place?) • Permanent? (Enduring, enforceable, longer term) - duration of positive impact against development (negative) impact and predicted long term ‘net impact’. • Timely? (Degree of alignment of positive impact against development (negative) impact?)

Projects in Priority Areas are Has the program delivered local jobs Preliminary (as per implementation plan): • Collation of ACTUAL project information (standard dataset as per agreed indicators). generating social co-benefits. and achieved social co-benefits? • # of proposed projects. • % of proposed projects to be contracted to local orgs. • % of proposed projects to be contracted to Indigenous orgs. • # of cross-sector partners on proposed projects (as per project proposals). Evaluation (post project): • Collation of actual project information (standard dataset as per agreed indicators). • # of projects successfully executed. • % of projects contracted to local orgs. • % of projects contracted to Indigenous orgs. • # of cross-sector partners on projects.

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 48 Activities and Outputs Data Collection Evaluation Question Activities of program Outputs Data collected that the data feeds into Program design • Cumulative environmental matters • Cumulative environmental matter • All outcome questions • Area of impact for each environmental summary table summary table • All outcome questions matter aggregated • Priority area map • Maps • Process evaluation • Priority Areas are mapped and • Results chains • Documentation of process • All outcome questions documented • Cumulative environmental matter • # results chains • Process evaluation • Results chains for assets/combined summary table (Table 1 & 2) • Documentation of process • All outcome questions assets are developed and tested • Cumulative environmental matter summary • Short/med-term outcome questions • Management actions for Priority Areas (Table 1 and 2, updated each year) • Short/med-term social co-benefit questions are assigned

Project development & contracting • Project plans • # project plans • Projects are designed • # project extents mapped • Projects are assessed and contracted • # cross-sector partnerships planned • Activities planned

Projects are delivered and report • Projects contracted • # Projects contracted • Process Evaluation • Projects report on activities and outputs • # activities/outputs • Assessment process documented • Short/med-term social co-benefit questions as per project plans • Projects completed and aquitted • # contracts awarded to local organisations • # contracts awarded to Indigenous organisations

• Activity data (via reporting tool) • Project acquittal statistics (on time, on budget) • Lessons learned • Qualitative data – written report on impact of project

49 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Appendix 6: Land tenure and rights to land

Rights and interest to land in the Pilbara bioregion The native title claims that have been determined and registered Figures 10, 11 and 12 show the land tenure and rights to land that apply in in the Pilbara include. the Pilbara bioregion. • Banjima (native title recognised in 2014)

Native title • Eastern Guruma (native title recognised in 2007) Understanding native title rights and interests to land in the Pilbara • Eastern Guruma – Area B (native title recognised in 2012) bioregion is important to support engagement of Aboriginal people in • Jurruru People #3 (native title recognised in 2018) regard to co-design of projects, negotiation to enable land access, and to • Jurruru People Part A (native title recognised in 2015) develop agreements to provide security for environmental offset outcomes. • Kariyarra (native title recognised 2018) Native title as defined under the Commonwealth Native Title • Kuruma Marthudunera (KM) (Part A) (native title recognised in 2016) Act 1993 (NT Act) has been recognised across most of the Pilbara • Kuruma Marthudunera (KM) (Part B) (native title recognised in 2018) bioregion (see Figure 14), and exists over all tenure, lease and tenement • Martu (Part B), Karnapyrri, and Martu #2 (native title recognised in 2013) types listed in Table 7. • Martu and Ngurrara (native title recognised in 2002) Proposed actions or developments that affect native title are classed • Ngarla and Ngarla #2 (native title recognised 2007) as ‘Future Acts’ under the NT Act and will require development of an Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) (NNTT 2019). • Ngarla Overlap Proceeding (native title recognised 2013) • Ngarla People (native title recognised 2010) On unallocated crown land and crown reserves vested for the benefit and/ or use of Aboriginal people, native title can be determined to be exclusive • Ngarlawangga People (native title recognised in 2016) possession (the right to possess and occupy an area to the exclusion of • Ngarluma People (native title recognised in 2015) all others). Everywhere else, native title is non-exclusive; that is, Aboriginal • Ngarluma/Yindjibarndi (native title recognised in 2005) people have the right to live on the area, hunt, fish, gather food or teach • Nharnuwangga (native title recognised in 2000) lore and custom on Country (NNTT 2010). • Njamal (native title recognised in 2019)

Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 50 • Njamal People #10 (native title claim registered in 2010) • Nyangumarta People (Part A) (native title recognised in 2009) • Nyiyaparli and Nyiyaparli #3 (native title recognised 2018) • Palyku (native title recognised in 2019) • Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura (PKKP) (native title recognised in 2015) • Thalanyji (native title recognised 2008) • Thudgari People (native title recognised 2009) • Yaburara & Mardudhunera People (native title recognised 2018) • Yindjibarndi #1 (native title recognised in 2017) • Yinhawangka People Part A and B (native title recognised in 2017).

51 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation Table 7: Land tenure, lease, tenement and reserves types in the Pilbara IBRA bioregion.

These interests and rights to land overlap – because rights to land are overlapping, the area calculations in the table will not add up to 100 per cent.

Area (ha) of % of the Pilbara bioregion Current mechanism(s) to Likelihood the offset Legislation Tenure and rights to land Who manages the land? Pilbara (IBRA region provide offset security will be impacted, or degraded in future. bioregion = 17 823 126 ha) Crown land Formal conservation reserve DBCA. 1 136 461 6.4% Part 2 of the Conservation Reserves are very unlikely to be developed in as determined and Land Management future. – as determined under Part 2 of under Part 4 Act 1984. the Conservation and Land of the Land Management Act 1984. MOUs with DBCA. Administration Unallocated crown land (UCL) DPLH (on behalf of the 664 659 3.7% Endorsement from DPLH. The land has been excised from the pastoral Act 1997 – DBCA interest. Minister for Lands). estate, either through land reform processes DBCA has an MOU with the or direct purchase for addition to the Minister for management of conservation estate. fires, feral animals and weeds. Unallocated crown land (UCL). DPLH (on behalf of the 4 345 006 24.4% Endorsement from DPLH. The land has not been leased or reserved so Minister for Lands). far for a purpose that misaligns with offsets, but may be in the future. Crown reserves (including for Depends on the purpose 2 695 069 15.1% Determined on a case-by- Depends on whether the land has been Aboriginal people, water supply of vesting. case basis depending on reserved for a purpose which aligns and/or agriculture). the purpose of the vesting. with offsets. Mining Act tenure. Depends on land tenure and 163 681 91.8% Projects only viable where Most land covered by Mining Act lease is not rights that exist where mining there are non-exclusive viable for environmental offsets, however some tenements exist. mining rights9. areas within a lease, outside a development Non-exclusive rights envelope and the area of mineralisation may be holders need to be notified suitable for offsets. Land covered by Mining Act of offset activities. File licence have not been leased or reserved so far notations can trigger for a purpose that impacts offset actions, but conditions of programs may be in future. of work to require the A file notation of offset areas can trigger the licenceholder to avoid inclusion of conditions on programs of work and mitigate impacts to associated with a mining licence, to require the offset. licensees to avoid and mitigate impacts to environmental offsets.

9 Part IIIA and Part IV of the Mining Act 1978 defines rights to land granted under the Mining Act 1978. Generally, exclusive mining rights relate to mining leases, and non-exclusive mining rights relate to licences. Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 52 Table 7: Land tenure, lease, tenement and reserves types in the Pilbara IBRA bioregion.

These interests and rights to land overlap – because rights to land are overlapping, the area calculations in the table will not add up to 100 per cent.

Area (ha) of % of the Pilbara bioregion Current mechanism(s) to Likelihood the offset Legislation Tenure and rights to land Who manages the land? Pilbara (IBRA region provide offset security will be impacted, or degraded in future. bioregion = 17 823 126 ha) Pastoral lease10. Pastoral lessee for term of 109 413 62.4% Land access agreements Pastoral leases give the lessee the right to the lease. between the Department graze authorised livestock on the natural of Water and vegetation, and lessees are required to manage Environmental Regulation the soil, water and environment on their and pastoral lessee. pastoral lease to maintain the sustainability of grazing, which may align with biodiversity offset objectives.

Aboriginal Mining Act tenure. Aboriginal Lands Trust/AAPA/ 7314 4.1% Aboriginal Lands Trust/ Depends on what the reservation purpose is as Affairs Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. AAPA/Minister for defined in the Act and whether this purpose is Planning Aboriginal Affairs to consistent with an environmental offset. Authority Act endorse any MOU. 1972 MOU or agreement Part III — between DWER and Reserved Aboriginal entity. lands – Lands Indigenous Land Use reserved for Agreement where the use and exclusive native title benefit of rights exist. Aboriginal people

10 https://www.dplh.wa.gov.au/information-and-services/pastoral-land/pastoral-leases.

53 Department of Water and Environmental Regulation LEGEND Native title determinations Native title claimant applications and determination areas in the Pilbara bioregion Native title exists (exclusive) Native title exists (non- exclusive) Native title registered Nyangumarta-Karajarri Native title claims Overlap Proceeding (Yawinya) (6 Towns 25/05/2012 Roads overview Pilbara subregion Coastline overview

Ngarla and Ngarla #2 n Hwy Norther (Determination Area A) Great 30/05/2007 Nyangumarta Ngarla People (Mount People (Part A) Ngarla Overlap Goldsworthy Lease PORT HEDLAND 11/06/2009 Proceeding Proceeding) 19/02/2013 6/08/2010

Ngarluma People Roebourne KARRATHA 21/12/2015 Martu (Part B), y l Hw ROEBOURNE Kariyarra Karnapyrri, and Martu #2 asta t Co 13/12/2018 16/05/2013 Wes People #10 rth Nyamal No 24/09/2019 People #1 24/09/2019 Yaburara & MARBLE BAR Mardudhunera People Ngarluma/Yindjibarndi 27/07/2018 2/05/2005 Roebourne Chichester

SOURCE DATA NNTT: Native title determination outcomes ONSLOW Nyamal #1 and claims 3/06/1999 DEE: IBRA 7 subregions Kuruma Marthudunera Part B Palyku Part A 26/04/2018 Kuruma Marthudunera 12/03/2019 Date: 1/11/2019, Map Version: 5 (Part A) Yindjibarndi #1 13/11/2017 1/11/2016 y NULLAGINE w Palyku H 2/08/1999 n r e h t Eastern WITTENOOM r Guruma o ¯ N 1/03/2007 t a

e 0 25 50 100 r G Puutu Kunti Kurrama Kilometres People and Pinikura People #1 and #2 Eastern Guruma LEGEND - Area B Banjima Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia, 1994 2/09/2015 People Fortescue Native title determinations Figure 10: NativeNative tit letitle claim aclaimantnt application sapplications and determination a randeas in determinationthe Pilbara bioregion areas in the Pilbara bioregion Thalanyji 20/11/2012 Scale: 1:2,100,000 at A3 11/03/2014 Native title exists (exclusive) 18/09/2008 Native title exists (non- exclusive) LOCALITY MAP Hamersley Location Map KUNUNURRA Native title registered Nyangumarta-Karajarri Jurruru People #3 Native title claims Overlap Proceeding BROOME (Yawinya) 20/12/2018 PARABURDOO Martu and ( Budina Yinhawangka People 6 Towns 25/05/2012 PORT HEDLAND Ngurrara KARRATHA People Part A and B NEWMAN 27/09/2002 Roads overview 16/10/2017 Jurruru 18/07/2017 People Part A Pilbara subregion Thudgari People 1/09/2015 Nyiyaparli and CARNARVON Ngarlawangga Coastline overview 18/11/2009 Yinhawangka People Nyiyaparli #3 Gobawarrah 26/09/2018 wy 20/04/2017 7/12/2016 Ngarla and Ngarla #2 rthern H Combined Thiin-Mah, Warriyangka, Tharrkari Great No GERALDTON (Determination Area A) and Jiwarli People 30/05/2007 LEGEND Nharnuwangga KALGOORLIE 16/04/2019 Wajarri Nyangumarta NORTHAM Yamatji Part B Ngarla People (Mount PERTH Native title determinations Native title claimant a2p9/p08l/i2c00a0tions and determination areas in the Pilbara bioregion People (Part A) 23/04/2018 Wajarri Birriliburu Ngarla Overlap Goldsworthy Lease BUNBURY COLLIE PORT HEDLAND 11/06/2009 ESPERANCE Native title exists (exclusive) Yamatji #1 People - Part A Proceeding Proceeding) Gnulli Gingirana BUSSELTON ALBANY Native title exists (non- 5/12/2005 20/06/2008 19/02/2013 6/08/2010 14/04/1997 7/12/2017 exclusive) Ngarluma People Roebourne Native title registered Nyangumarta-Karajarri KARRATHA 21/12/2015 Native title claims Overlap Proceeding Martu (Part B), (Yawinya) y ( l Hw ROEBOURNE Kariyarra Karnapyrri, and Martu #2 6 Towns 25/05/2012 asta Nyamal t Co 13/12/2018 16/05/2013 Wes People #10 Roads overview rth Nyamal No 24/09/2019 People #1 Pilbara subregion 24/09/2019 Coastline overview Yaburara & MARBLE BAR Mardudhunera People Ngarluma/Yindjibarndi wy 27/07/2018 2/05/2005 Ngarla and Ngarla #2 rthern H Great No Roebourne Chichester (Determination Area A) 30/05/2007 Nyangumarta SOURCE DATA Ngarla People (Mount NNTT: Native title determination outcomes People (Part A) ONSLOW Nyamal #1 Ngarla Overlap Goldsworthy Lease and claims PORT HEDLAND 11/06/2009 3/06/1999 Proceeding Proceeding) DEE: IBRA 7 subregions Kuruma Marthudunera Part B Palyku Part A 19/02/2013 6/08/2010 26/04/2018 Kuruma Marthudunera 12/03/2019 Date: 1/11/2019, Map Version: 5 (Part A) Yindjibarndi #1 13/11/2017 Ngarluma People Roebourne 1/11/2016 y Palyku NULLAGINE KARRATHA w 21/12/2015 H 2/08/1999 n Martu (Part B), r y e Hw ROEBOURNE Kariyarra Karnapyrri, and Martu #2 h al Eastern t st Nyamal WITTENOOM r oa 13/12/2018 16/05/2013 o C Guruma est People #10 ¯ N h W rt 1/03/2007 t No Nyamal a 24/09/2019 e People #1 0 25 50 100 r G 24/09/2019 Puutu Kunti Kurrama Yaburara & MARBLE BAR Kilometres People and Pinikura Mardudhunera People Ngarluma/Yindjibarndi Eastern Guruma People #1 and #2 27/07/2018 2/05/2005 - Area B Banjima Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia, 1994 2/09/2015 People Fortescue Roebourne Chichester Thalanyji 20/11/2012 Scale: 1:2,100,000 at A3 11/03/2014 18/09/2008 SOURCE DATA NNTT: Native title determination outcomes ONSLOW Nyamal #1 Legend and claims LOCALITY MAP Hamersley LEGEND Kuruma 3/06/1999 KUNUNURRA Jurruru DEE: IBRA 7 subregions Native title determinations Native title claimant appliMcaarthtuidounnersa P artn Bd determination areas in the Pilbara bioregionPalyku Part A People #3 Kuruma Marthudunera BROOME 26/04/2018 Yindjibarndi #1 12/03/2019 20/12/2018 PARABURDOO Martu and Native title exists (exclusive) Date: 1/11/2019, Map Version: 5 (Part A) Budina Yinhawangka People 13/11/2017 y NULLAGINE PORT HEDLAND Ngurrara 1/11/2016 Palyku KARRATHA People Part A and B Native title exists (non- w Jurruru NEWMAN 27/09/2002 H 2/08/1999 exclusive) n 16/10/2017 18/07/2017 r People Part A e h Thudgari People Native title registered Eastern t Nyangumarta-Karajarri 1/09/2015 Nyiyaparli and WITTENOOM r CARNARVON 18/11/2009 Yinhawangka Ngarlawangga Guruma o Overlap Proceeding Nyiyaparli #3 Native title claims ¯ N Gobawarrah People 1/03/2007 t (Yawinya) 26/09/2018 a ( e 7/12/2016 Towns r 25/05/2012 20/04/2017 6 0 25 50 100 GERALDTON Combined Thiin-Mah, Warriyangka, Tharrkari G and Jiwarli People Roads overview Puutu Kunti Kurrama Nharnuwangga KALGOORLIE 16/04/2019 Wajarri Kilometres People and Pinikura NORTHAM Pilbara subregion PERTH Yamatji Part B 29/08/2000 People #1 and #2 Eastern Guruma 23/04/2018 Wajarri Birriliburu Banjima BUNBURY COLLIE Coastline overview 2/09/2015 - Area B Fortescue ESPERANCE Yamatji #1 People - Part A Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia, 1994 People Gnulli Gingirana Thalanyji 20/11/2012 BUSSELTON ALBANY 5/12/2005 20/06/2008 Scale: 1:2,100,000 at A3 11/03/2014 14/04/1997 7/12/2017 18/09/2008 Ngarla and Ngarla #2 n Hwy Norther (Determination Area A) Great Hamersl3e0y/05/2007 LOCALITY MAP KUNUNURRA Jurruru Nyangumarta Ngarla People (Mount People #3 People (Part A) BROOME Ngarla Overlap Goldsworthy Lease 20/12/2018 PORT HEDLAND PARABURDOO 11/06/2009 Martu and Budina Proceeding ProceedingY) inhawangka People PORT HEDLAND Ngurrara KARRATHA People 6/08/2010 Part A and B Pilbara Fund - Implementation plan 54 19/02/2013 NEWMAN 27/09/2002 16/10/2017 Jurruru 18/07/2017 PeRopole bPoarut rAne Ngarluma TPheuodpgleari People 1/09/2015 Nyiyaparli and CARNARVON KARRATHA Ngarlawangga 21/12/201158/11/2009 Yinhawangka Nyiyaparli #3 Gobawarrah People Martu (Part B), y 7/12/2016 26/09/2018 l Hw ROEBOURNE Kariyarra 20/04/2017 Karnapyrri, and Martu #2 asta Combined Thiin-Mah, Warriyangka, Tharrkari Nyamal GERALDTON t Co 13/12/2018 16/05/2013 Wes and Jiwarli People People #10 rth Wajarri Nharnuwangga Nyamal KALGOORLIE No 16/04/2019 24/09/2019 PERTH NORTHAM Yamatji Part B 29/08/2000 People #1 Wajarri Birriliburu BUNBURY COLLIE 23/04/2018 24/09/2019 ESPERANCEYaburara & Yamatji #1 People - Part A Gnulli MARBLE BAR Gingirana BUSSELTON ALBANY Mardudhunera People 5/12/2005 20/06/2008 14/04/1997 Ngarluma/Yindjibarndi 7/12/2017 27/07/2018 2/05/2005 Roebourne Chichester

SOURCE DATA NNTT: Native title determination outcomes ONSLOW Nyamal #1 and claims 3/06/1999 DEE: IBRA 7 subregions Kuruma Marthudunera Part B Palyku Part A 26/04/2018 Kuruma Marthudunera 12/03/2019 Date: 1/11/2019, Map Version: 5 (Part A) Yindjibarndi #1 13/11/2017 1/11/2016 y NULLAGINE w Palyku H 2/08/1999 n r e h t Eastern WITTENOOM r Guruma o ¯ N 1/03/2007 t a

e 0 25 50 100 r G Puutu Kunti Kurrama Kilometres People and Pinikura People #1 and #2 Eastern Guruma - Area B Banjima Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia, 1994 2/09/2015 People Fortescue Thalanyji 20/11/2012 Scale: 1:2,100,000 at A3 11/03/2014 18/09/2008

LOCALITY MAP Hamersley KUNUNURRA Jurruru People #3 BROOME 20/12/2018 PARABURDOO Martu and Budina Yinhawangka People PORT HEDLAND Ngurrara KARRATHA People Part A and B NEWMAN 27/09/2002 16/10/2017 Jurruru 18/07/2017 People Part A Thudgari People 1/09/2015 Nyiyaparli and CARNARVON 18/11/2009 Yinhawangka Ngarlawangga People Nyiyaparli #3 Gobawarrah 26/09/2018 20/04/2017 7/12/2016 GERALDTON Combined Thiin-Mah, Warriyangka, Tharrkari and Jiwarli People Nharnuwangga KALGOORLIE 16/04/2019 Wajarri PERTH NORTHAM Yamatji Part B 29/08/2000 Wajarri Birriliburu BUNBURY COLLIE 23/04/2018 ESPERANCE Yamatji #1 People - Part A Gnulli Gingirana BUSSELTON ALBANY 5/12/2005 20/06/2008 14/04/1997 7/12/2017 LEGEND National parks and National parks and conservation reserves, Aboriginal reserves, Unallocated Crown Land, conservation reserves proposed conservation reserves, other crown reserves and pastoral leases in the Pilbara bioregion Aboriginal reserves Unallocated Crown Land Proposed parks and conservation reserves Other Crown reserves ( 6 Towns BEDOUT ISLAND Roads overview NATURE RESERVE Pilbara bioregion Coastline overview NORTH TURTLE ISLAND NATURE RESERVE wy rthern H Great No

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r e KARRATHA a Other Crown reserves t ROEBOURNE N o ( Towns GREAT SANDY r 6 BEDOUT ISLAND t h ISLAND NATURE e NATURE RESERVE r Roads overview RESERVE n H w Pilbara bioregion y NORTH TURTLE y MARBLE BAR Coastline overview w ISLAND NATURE H l RESERVE a USE AND BENEFIT y t n Hw s orther LITTLE ROCKY a OF ABORIGINAL reat N o MILLSTREAM G ISLAND NATURE C INHABITANTS t CHICHESTER NP SOURCE DATA RESERVE s Chichester LGATE: Reserves, UCL e Roebourne W PORT HEDLAND h Legend DEE: IBRA 7 subregions ONSLOW rt o LEGEND N MUNGAROONA Date: 29/07/2019, Map Version: 6 RANGE NATURE National parks and National parks and conservation reserves, Aboriginal reserves, Unallocated Crown Land, RESERVE conservation reserves NULLAGINE proposed conservation reserves, other crown reserves and pastoral leases in the Pilbara bioregion Aboriginal reserves Roebourne G

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KALGOORLIE PERTH NORTHAM BUNBURY COLLIE ESPERANCE BUSSELTON ALBANY LEGEND Mining tenement Mining tenements (granted and pending) in the Pilbara bioregion Mining lease General Purpose lease Miscellaneous licence Exploration licence Prospecting licence Pastoral leases (6 Towns MANDORA ANNA Roads overview STATION PLAINS DOWNS STATION Pilbara bioregion STATION Coastline overview wy rthern H Great No PORT HEDLAND

DE GREY Roebourne STATION MUCCAN PIPPINGARRA STATION STATION MUNDABULLANGANA BOODARIE KARRATHA COONGAN ROEBOURNE STATION STATION STATION WALLAREENYA WARAMBIE STATION WARRAWAGINE STATION STATION INDEE KARRATHA SHERLOCK STATION STATION LIMESTONE STATION STRELLEY STATION MT WELCOME KANGAN STATION STATION STATION PYRAMID MARBLE BAR STATION PANORAMA STATION YALLEEN MALLINA Roebourne STATION STATION SOURCE DATA Chichester DMIRS: Mining tenements STATION LGATE: Pastoral leases CORUNNA ONSLOW DOWNS DEE: IBRA 7 subregions BONNEY PEEDAMULLA STATION COOLAWANYAH DOWNS STATION STATION HOOLEY Date: 30/07/2019, Map Version: 4 y STATION w STATION WANDANYA H l STATION a t NULLAGINE s a o MT FLORANCE C MULGA t STATION NOREENA s HILLSIDE e DOWNS DOWNS MINDEROO RED STATION ¯ W WITTENOOM STATION STATION MT DIVIDE STATION h HILL t r STATION o HAMERSLEY N MT STUART STATION 0 25 50 100 STATION - STATION EAST Figure 11: National parks and conservation reserves, Aboriginal reserves, unallocated crown land, proposed Kilometres STATION Fortescue LEGEND WYLOO BALFOUR NANUTARRA STATION DOWNS Mining tenement Mining tenements (granted and pending) in the Pilbara bioregion Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia, 1994 Hamersley STATION conservation reserves, other crown reserves and pastoral leases in the Pilbara bioregion Figure 12: Mining tenements (granted and pending) in the Pilbara bioregion STATION TOM PRICE MARILLANA ROY HILL Scale: 1:2,100,000 at A3 STATION Mining lease STATION STATION CHEELA PLAINS ROCKLEA General Purpose lease STATION EMU STATION UAROO ETHEL Miscellaneous licence LOCALITY MAP CREEK Location Map KUNUNURRA STATION CREEK STATION WALAGUNYA Exploration licence KOOLINE STATION BROOME TOWERA GLEN PARABURDOO G STATION Prospecting licence STATION reat STATION FLORRIE North ASHBURTON ern PORT HEDLAND STATION Hwy Pastoral leases KARRATHA DOWNS NEWMAN STATION (6 Towns ROBERTSON MANDORA ANNA STATION RANGE Roads overview STATION PLAINS MININER STATION WALLAL DOWNS STATION CARNARVON PRAIRIE SYLVANIA Pilbara bioregion STATION STATION TUREE CREEK DOWNS STATION LYNDON STATION STATION STATION Coastline overview wy STATION EDMUND rthern H Great No GERALDTON STATION PARDOO LEGEND KALGOORLIE MANGAROON WEELARRANA STATION NORTHAM BULLOO PORT HEDLAND PERTH Mining tenements (granted and pending) in the Pilbara bioregion STATION Mining tenement WILLIAMBURY STATION WANNA STATION PINGANDY DOWNS BUNBURY COLLIE DOOLEY Mining lease ESPERANCE STATION STATION MT VERNON STATION DOWNS DE GREY GeBnUeSrSaElL PTOuNrpAoLsBeAN lYease MINNIE CREEK MT AUGUSTUS STATION Roebourne STATION MUCCAN STATION EUDAMULLAH STATION STATION STATION PIPPINGARRA STATION Miscellaneous licence STATION MUNDABULLANGANA BOODARIE KARRATHA COONGAN Exploration licence ROEBOURNE STATION STATION STATION WALLAREENYA Prospecting licence WARAMBIE STATION WARRAWAGINE STATION STATION INDEE Pastoral leases KARRATHA SHERLOCK YARRIE STATION STATION STATION LIMESTONE STATION (6 Towns STRELLEY STATION MANDORA ANNA MT WELCOME KANGAN STATION Roads overview STATION PLAINS STATION STATION PYRAMID MARBLE BAR WALLAL DOWNS STATION Pilbara bioregion STATION MARDIE STATION PANORAMA STATION Coastline overview Hwy STATION orthern YALLEEN MALLINA Great N Roebourne STATION STATION SOURCE DATA PARDOO YARRALOOLA Chichester STATION DMIRS: Mining tenements PORT HEDLAND STATION LGATE: Pastoral leases CORUNNA ONSLOW DOWNS DEE: IBRA 7 subregions BONNEY PEEDAMULLA STATION DE GREY COOLAWANYAH DOWNS Roebourne STATION STATION HOOLEY Legend STATION MUCCAN Date: 30/07/2019, Map Version: 4 y STATION LEGEND PIPPINGARRA STATION w STATION WANDANYA H STATION l STATION Mining tenements (grMaUNnDAtBeUdLLA aNGnANdA pending) in the Pilbara bioregion a NULLAGINE Mining tenement BOODARIE COONGAN t KARRATHA s ROEBOURNE STATION STATION STATION a Mining lease o MT FLORANCE WALLAREENYA C WARRAWAGINE MULGA WARAMBIE STATION t STATION NOREENA General Purpose lease STATION s HILLSIDE STATION DOWNS INDEE e DOWNS KARRATHA SHERLOCK MINDEROO RED STATION Miscellaneous licence YARRIE W STATION ¯ WITTENOOM STATION STATION MT DIVIDE STATION STATION LIMESTONE STATION STATION h HILL t STATION r STATION HAMERSLEY STATION Exploration licence MT WELCOME STRELLEY o HAMERSLEY KANGAN N MT STUART STATION STATION STATION 0 25 50 100 STATION - Prospecting licence STATION STATION PYRAMID MARBLE BAR EAST Kilometres YANREY Pastoral leases MARDIE STATION STATION STATION PANORAMA WYLOO Fortescue BALFOUR ( STATION 6 Towns MALLINA NANUTARRA STATION DOWNS Roebourne YALLEEN MANDORA ANNA Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia, 1994 Hamersley JUNA DOWNS STATION Roads overview STATION STATION STATION PLAINS STATION TOM PRICE MARILLANA ROY HILL SOURCE DATA Scale: 1:2,100,000 at A3 STATION Chichester WALLAL DOWNS STATION STATION DMIRS: Mining tenements YARRALOOLA STATION CHEELA PLAINS ROCKLEA Pilbara bioregion STATION STATION STATION LGATE: Pastoral leases CORUNNA EMU STATION ONSLOW UAROO ETHEL DEE: IBRAC o7 assutblirneeg ionvserview DOWNS wy LOCALITY MAP CREEK thern H BONNEY KUNUNURRA STATION CREEK PEEDAMULLA reat Nor STATION WALAGUNYA G DOWNS STATION STATION STATION HOOLEY KOOLINE Date: 30/07/2019, Map Version: 4 y PARDOO STATION BROOME TOWERA GLEN PARABURDOO STATION Grea w STATION STATION WANDANYA STATION FLORRIE STATION t No H ASHBURTON rthe l PORT HEDLAND STATION rn H a NULLAGINE PORT HEDLAND STATION wy t KARRATHA DOWNS NEWMAN s a ULLAWARRA STATION ROBERTSON o MT FLORANCE C MULGA RANGE t STATION HILLSIDE NOREENA s RoebDoOuWrnNeS STATION MUCCAN STATION e PIPPINGARRA DOWNS CARNARVON MAROONAH MININER PRAIRIE MINDEROO RED STATION STATION SYLVANIA W WITTENOOM STATION STATION STATION STATION TUREE CREEK ¯ STATION MT DIVIDE DOWNS STATION h HILL LYNDON STATION t MUNDABULLANGANA r STATION HAMERSLEY COONGAN STATION STATION o KARRATHA STATION EDMUND HAMERSLEY STATION STATION 0 25 50 100 N MT STUART STARTOIOEBNOURNE STATION GERALDTON STATION - STATION STATION WALLAREENYA WARAMBIE STATIOENAST WARRAWAGINE YANREY STATION STATION KALGOORLIE MANGAROON WEELARRANA Kilometres INDEE NORTHAM BULLOO STATION KARRATHA SHERLOCK YARRIE PERTH STATION STATION Fortescue WILLIAMBURY STATION WANNA STATION PINGANDY DOWNS WYLOO STATION STATION LIMESTONE STATION BALFOUR BUNBURY COLLIE DOOLEY DOWNS ESPERANCE STATION STATION MT VERNON STATION NANUTARRA STATION MT WELCOME STRELLEY STATION DOWNS Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia, 1994 Hamersley KANGANJUNA DOWNS STATION BUSSELTON ALBANY MINNIE CREEK MT AUGUSTUS STATION STATION STATION TOM PRICE STATION ROY HILL STATION Scale: 1:2,100,000 at A3 STATION MARILLANA STATION EUDAMULLAH STATION STATION STATION ROCKLEA STATMIOANRBLE BAR CHEELA PLAINS STATION MARDIE STATION EMU STATION PANORAMA UAROO STATION ETHEL LOCALITY MAP CREEK STATION KUNUNURRA STATION MALLINA CREEK STATION YALLEEN WALAGUNYA Roebourne STATION STATION STATION GLEN KOOLINE PARABURDOO STATION SOURCE DATA BROOME TOWERA Grea YARRALOOLA FLORRIE STATION t NCo hichester DMIRS: Mining tenements STATION ASHBURTON rthe STATION rn Hw LGATE: Pastoral leasPeOsRT HEDLAND STATION DOWNS y CORUNNA KARRATHA ONSLOW NEWMAN DEE: IBRA 7 subregions ULLAWARRA STATION DOWNS ROBERTSON PEEDAMULLA BONNEY STATION COOLAWANYAH STATION RANGE Pilbara Fund - ImplementationSTATION plan DOWNS Date: 30/07/2019, Map Version: 4 56 STATION HOOLEY STATION CARNARVON MAROONy AH MININER PRAIRIE STATION w STATION SYLVANIA WANDANYA STATHION STATION TUREE CREEK DOWNS l STATION STATION LYNDON a NULLAGINE t STATION STATION STATION s a EDMUND GERALDTON o STATION MT FLORANCE C MULGA t STATION HILLSIDE NOREENA KALGOORLIE s DOWNS WEELARRANA MANGe AROON BULLOO DOWNS PERTH NORTHAM MINDEROO RED STATION STATION ¯ WILLIAMBURY STWATION WANNA STATION PINGANDY WITTENOOM STATION DOWNS STATION MT DIVIDE BUNBURY COLLIE STATION h HILL t DOOLEY ESPERANCE STATION r STATION HAMERSLTEATYION MT VERNON STATION STATION o DOWNS BUSSELTON ALBANY MT AUGUSTUS HAMERSLEY MINNN IE CREEK MT STUART STATION STATION 0 25 50 100 STATION STATION - STATION EUDAMULLAH STATION SSTTAATTIIOONN EAST Kilometres YANREY STATION WYLOO Fortescue BALFOUR NANUTARRA STATION DOWNS Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia, 1994 Hamersley JUNA DOWNS STATION STATION TOM PRICE MARILLANA ROY HILL Scale: 1:2,100,000 at A3 STATION STATION STATION CHEELA PLAINS EMU STATION UAROO ETHEL LOCALITY MAP CREEK KUNUNURRA STATION CREEK STATION WALAGUNYA KOOLINE STATION BROOME TOWERA GLEN PARABURDOO G STATION STATION reat STATION FLORRIE North ASHBURTON ern PORT HEDLAND STATION Hwy KARRATHA DOWNS NEWMAN ULLAWARRA STATION ROBERTSON STATION RANGE MAROONAH MININER STATION CARNARVON PRAIRIE SYLVANIA STATION STATION TUREE CREEK DOWNS LYNDON STATION STATION STATION STATION EDMUND GERALDTON STATION

KALGOORLIE MANGAROON WEELARRANA PERTH NORTHAM BULLOO STATION WILLIAMBURY STATION WANNA STATION PINGANDY DOWNS BUNBURY COLLIE DOOLEY ESPERANCE STATION STATION MT VERNON STATION DOWNS BUSSELTON ALBANY MINNIE CREEK MT AUGUSTUS STATION STATION EUDAMULLAH STATION STATION STATION Definitions

Term Definition Term Definition IBRA Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (referred EP Act Environmental Protection Act 1986. to as the ‘bioregion’). EPBC Act Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation CEO The chief executive officer of the department of the public Act 1999. service of the state responsible for the administration of the EPA Environmental Protection Authority, defined as the Authority Environmental Protection Act 1986. Currently the Director in Part I s.3 of the EP Act, or their delegate. General of the Department of Water and Environmental IAG Implementation Advisory Group. Regulation. Impacts Relating to the direct or indirect impact to environmental CPI Consumer Price Index. matters. Direct impact notes vegetation loss as a result of CSIRO The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research clearing. Indirect is vegetation clearing as a result of direct Organisation. impact elsewhere. For example, vegetation degradation DBCA The Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and caused due to the impact of dust from a crusher plant or Attractions. road activities. Delegate Person or public authority who, by instrument of delegation Minister for The Western Australian state government Minister for made under sections 18, 19 or 20 of the EP Act, is Environment Environment, or their delegate. authorised to perform all or any of the powers or duties Ministerial Statement issued under s 45 (or under s 45 as applied under the EP Act of the decision-maker (being either the Statement by section 46(8)) of the EP Act (which may include Minister, the EPA or the chief executive officer). implementation conditions). Delivery agent Delivery agents will deliver projects selected by the Minister. PRG Project Recommendation Group. They may be drawn from the not-for-profit, government or WA Environmental WA Environmental Offsets Guidelines (Government of private sectors through partnerships, direct requests or a call Offsets Guidelines Western Australia, 2014) or any subsequent updates or for expressions of interest. replacements. DMIRS The Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety. WA Environmental WA Environmental Offsets Policy (Government of DWER The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation. Offsets Policy Western Australia, 2011) or any subsequent updates Environmental Significant residual impacts of development conditioned or replacements. Matters to be offset under Part IV of the EP Act (in a Ministerial Statement) or Parts 9 and 10 of the EPBC Act (in a Decision Notice) – e.g. good to excellent vegetation, ghost bat habitat, riparian vegetation).

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Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) 2019, National Native Title Tribunal 2019, National Native Title Register Current (Live and Pending) Mining Tenements, Creative Commons (Determination Outcomes), Current at 16 October 2019, Creative Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 Licence, Current as at 4 February Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence, Australia. 2019, Western Australia. National Native Title Tribunal 2019, Register of Native Title Claims, Current Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) 2019, at 16 October 2019, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia State Agreement Act Boundaries, Creative Commons Attribution Licence, Australia. Non-Commercial 4.0 Licence, Current as at 2007, Western Australia. Western Australian Land Information Authority (Landgate) 2019, Cadastre, Department of the Environment and Energy 2018, Interim Biogeographic Current as at 5 March 2019, Western Australia. Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA), Version 7 (Subregions), Creative Department of Agriculture and Food WA 2019, Western Australia Pastoral Commons Attribution 4.0 International, Current as at 18 April 2012, Land Tenure - Pilbara Region, Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia. Western Australia.

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