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PARKER RANGE IRON ORE PROJECT MS 892 AND EPBC 2010/5435 SIGINIFICANT FLORA MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT PLAN Revision Issue Date Prepared By Approved By Signature Number 0 5/05/2020 S. Findlay, G. Wells L. Purves 1 11/5/2020 N. Smith L. Purves 2 4/6/2020 S. Findlay L. Purves Issue Date: 4/06/2020 242-EN-PLN-0020_0 Page i Printed copies of this document are not controlled. Please ensure that this is the latest available version before use. DECLARATION OF ACCURACY I declare that: 1. To the best of my knowledge, all the information contained in, or accompanying this Significant Flora Monitoring and Management Plan1 is complete, current and correct. 2. I am duly authorised to sign this declaration on behalf of the approval holder. 3. I am aware that: a. Section 490 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) (EPBC Act) makes it an offence for an approval holder to provide information in response to an approval condition where the person is reckless as to whether the information is false or misleading. b. Section 491 of the EPBC Act makes it an offence for a person to provide information or documents to specified persons who are known by the person to be performing a duty or carrying out a function under the EPBC Act or the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000 (Cth) where the person knows the information or document is false or misleading. c. The above offences are punishable on conviction by imprisonment, a fine or both. Signed Full name (please print) Timothy Berryman Organisation (please print) Mineral Resources Limited Date 04 / 06 / 2020 1 Parker Range Iron Ore Project MS 892 and EPBC 2010/5435 Significant Flora Monitoring and Management Plan, Revision 2. Issue Date: 4/06/2020 242-EN-PLN-0020_0 Page ii Printed copies of this document are not controlled. Please ensure that this is the latest available version before use. The page has been left blank intentionally Issue Date: 4/06/2020 242-EN-PLN-0020_0 Page iii Printed copies of this document are not controlled. Please ensure that this is the latest available version before use. TABLE OF CONTENTS Summary ........................................................................................................................................................ vii 1. Context, scope and rationale ..................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Project description .......................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Key Environmental Factor: Flora and vegetation ............................................................................ 5 1.3 Condition requirements .................................................................................................................. 6 1.4 Rationale and approach .................................................................................................................. 8 1.5 Environmental Impact Assessment findings ................................................................................... 8 1.6 Additional surveys to meet condition requirements .................................................................... 10 1.6.1 Seed collection of Lepidosperma sp. Mt Caudan and L. sp. Parker Range ....................... 10 1.6.2 Targeted survey for Isopogon robustus ............................................................................ 12 1.6.3 Chamelaucium sp. Parker Range (P1) ............................................................................... 14 1.7 Baseline significant flora health survey ......................................................................................... 16 1.7.1 Isopogon robustus ............................................................................................................ 16 1.7.2 Lepidosperma sp. Mt Caudan ........................................................................................... 16 1.8 Baseline significant flora health survey results ............................................................................. 17 1.9 Key assumptions and uncertainties ............................................................................................... 20 1.10 Management approach ................................................................................................................. 20 1.11 Rationale for choice of provisions ................................................................................................. 22 1.11.1 Trigger criteria .................................................................................................................. 22 1.11.2 Threshold criteria .............................................................................................................. 23 2. SFMMP provisions ................................................................................................................................... 23 2.1 Provisions table ............................................................................................................................. 23 2.2 Significant flora health monitoring program ................................................................................. 28 2.2.1 Baseline monitoring parameters and methods ................................................................ 28 2.3 Reporting ....................................................................................................................................... 28 3. Adaptive management and review of the SFMMP .................................................................................. 29 3.1 Contingency responses .................................................................................................................. 29 4. Stakeholder consultation ......................................................................................................................... 31 5. References ............................................................................................................................................... 33 TABLES TABLE 1: PURPOSE OF THE SFMMP ................................................................................................................. VII TABLE 2: MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROJECT ......................................................................................... 2 TABLE 3: KEY ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS, ACTIVITIES, VALUES AND ASSOCIATED IMPACTS .......................... 6 TABLE 4: MS892 CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE SFMMP ................................................................................ 6 Issue Date: 4/06/2020 242-EN-PLN-0020_0 Page iv Printed copies of this document are not controlled. Please ensure that this is the latest available version before use. TABLE 5: EPBC 2010/5435 CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE SFMMP ................................................................ 8 TABLE 6: IMPACT TO THE SIGNIFICANT FLORA, LEPIDOSPERMA SP. MT CAUDAN, LEPIDOSPERMA SP. PARKER RANGE AND CHAMELAUCIUM SP. PARKER RANGE AS A RESULT OF CLEARING REQUIRED FOR THE PROJECT ............................................................................................................................................................. 9 TABLE 7: SUMMARY OF ADDITIONAL PLANTS LOCATED WITHIN MONITORING POPULATIONS OF ISOPOGON ROBUSTUS ....................................................................................................................................................... 12 TABLE 8: SUMMARY OF DATA FROM CHAMELAUCIUM SP. PARKER RANGE POPULATION SEARCHES .......... 14 TABLE 9: SIGNIFICANT FLORA HEALTH MONITORING PARAMETERS AND METHODS .................................... 16 TABLE 10: DUST DEPOSITION SCALE................................................................................................................ 17 TABLE 11: ISOPOGON ROBUSTUS PLANT HEALTH SCALE (CASSON ET AL. 2009)............................................ 17 TABLE 12: LEPIDOSPERMA SP. MT CAUDAN PLANT HEALTH SCALE ............................................................... 17 TABLE 13: SUMMARY OF DATA FROM ISOPOGON ROBUSTUS REFERENCE AND IMPACT MONITORING QUADRATS SURVEYED IN SPRING 2019 .......................................................................................................... 18 TABLE 14: SUMMARY OF DATA FROM LEPIDOSPERMA SP. MT CAUDAN REFERENCE AND IMPACT MONITORING QUADRATS SURVEYED IN SPRING 2019 ................................................................................... 18 TABLE 15: MANAGEMENT ACTIONS TO MINIMISE POTENTIAL IMPACTS TO SIGNIFICANT FLORA ................ 20 TABLE 16: FLORA AND VEGETATION MANAGEMENT-BASED PROVISIONS TO MEET LEGAL REQUIREMENTS OF CONDITION 7 OF MS 892 AND EPBC 2010/5435 ....................................................................................... 24 TABLE 17: FLORA AND VEGETATION OUTCOME-BASED PROVISIONS TO MEET LEGAL REQUIREMENTS OF CONDITION 7 OF MS 892 AND EPBC 2010/5435 ............................................................................................. 26 TABLE 18: CONTINGENCY RESPONSES FOR POTENTIAL IMPACTS TO SIGNIFICANT FLORA RESULTING FROM PROJECT ACTIVITIES ......................................................................................................................................... 30 TABLE 19: STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION ...................................................................................................... 31 FIGURES FIGURE 1: PARKER RANGE IRON ORE PROJECT LOCATION