APPLICATION FOR NON-PASTORAL USE OF PASTORAL LAND (s.86 Pastoral Land Act) 1: APPLICANT’S DETAILS Legune Land Pty Ltd Name of Lessee Brian ACN John 092 818McLean 810 Applicant’s Full Name Lessee Position (eg. Lessee / Manager) 07 4619 8777 Telephone Mobile 07 4693 1580 Facsimile [email protected] Email PO Box 158 PITTSWORTH QLD 4356 Postal Address 2: DETAILS OF LEASE ON WHICH NON-PASTORAL USE IS PROPOSED Legune Station Lease Name Perpetual Pastoral Lease NT No. 1062 Pastoral Lease Number Perpetual Lease Expiry Date (for Term lease) NT Portions 798, 3222 NT Portion Number Victoria River District Location / Pastoral District 1788 km ² Total Area of Lease (km2) ~38 km² Size of Proposed Area for Non-Pastoral Use (km2) Total area dedicated to aquaculture operations at full scale is 25 858 ha. For Stage 1 approximately 3800 ha are required as non-pastoral use. Refer Table 1 for specifics Project Sea Dragon Pty Ltd October 2016 1 Refer Attachment 1 Location of Proposed Area for Non-Pastoral Use (attach geo- referenced locality plan) Project Sea Dragon Pty Ltd October 2016 2 2B. Project Proponent Project Sea Dragon Pty Ltd (PSD) ACN 604 936 192 Name of Proponent Christopher David Mitchell Applicants Full Name Position Managing Director 08 9321 4111 Telephone Mobile 08 9321 4411 Facsimile [email protected] Email P.O. Box 7312 Cloisters Square, Perth WA 6850 Postal Address 3: FEES AND CHARGES An application fee and annual charges apply to non-pastoral use permits using a two-tiered system. Tier 1 covers basic operations that require minimal development such as tourism campgrounds. Tier 2 covers more substantial operations such as horticulture, aquaculture, forestry, purpose-built tourism accommodation, station stores and extensive agriculture that require a valuation based on the proposed purpose. Application Fee The current one-off application fee for Tier 1 non-pastoral operations is $1,350.00 and for Tier 2 non-pastoral operations is $2,950.00. Payment is required at the time the application is lodged. Annual Fees For Tier 1 non-pastoral operations an annual flat rate fee of $500.00 will be charged for the duration of the non-pastoral use permit. For Tier 2 non-pastoral operations the annual fee charged for the duration of the permit is calculated using the following formula: (Unimproved Value (UV) of the land for purpose x percentage) x revenue unit which is currently $1.07. UV per Hectare UV x 1000 UV 1000 x (UV x 3%) x Revenue Annual Fee for Agriculture hectares 3% Unit ($1.07) Payable $650 $650 000 $19 500 $20 865.50 $20 865.50 *Please note this is an example only. Each property will have a different UV depending on its location and intended non-pastoral use* Project Sea Dragon Pty Ltd October 2016 3 The payment of annual fees for both Tier 1 and Tier 2 will be staged as follows: Year 1: Only the application fee is charged Year 2: 25% of the calculated annual fee is charged Year 3: 50% of the calculated annual fee is charged Year 4: 75% of the calculated annual fee is charged Year 5: 100% of the calculated annual fee is charged For more information about the structure of non-pastoral use fees and charges please refer to the Northern Territory Non-Pastoral Use Guidelines 2014. 4: NON-PASTORAL USE PURPOSE Tourism Forestry Horticulture Agriculture Aquaculture Other 4.1 Non-pastoral use details Seafarms proposes to develop Project Sea Dragon, a large, land-based aquaculture facility on Legune Station for the year-round production of Black Tiger prawns (Penaeus monodon). Project Sea Dragon is a staged project with a long development timeline of approximately ten years. Stage 1 will comprise circa 1120 hectares of grow-out ponds and supporting infrastructure, with subsequent stages expanding to 10,000 hectares of grow-out ponds and associated infrastructure. Table 1 below indicates the components of the Project at Stage 1. All of the Project elements to be situated on Legune Station are collectively referred to as the “Grow-out Facility” (See Attachment 2 – Master Plan). The Grow-out Facility includes the Grow-out Centre as well as the Environmental Protection Zones, headworks infrastructure and ancillary infrastructure to support the Grow-out Centre (e.g. roads, canals and channels, power plant and accommodation facilities). For further detail refer to Section 11. The attached Master Plan (Attachment 2) shows a proposed lay-out of aquaculture facilities to conform with a notional 10,000 ha of production ponds. Stage 1 of the development consisting of three (3) farms is shown in darker grey with internal blue markings. Engineering design and feasibility and environmental assessment work has been focused on Project Sea Dragon Pty Ltd October 2016 4 this part of the footprint together with the services required to develop the first stage. Headworks infrastructure is being designed to support subsequent stages. The second grouping shows farms marked out in light grey and indicates area where there is medium confidence of being able to locate future farms. The dashed outlines show the potential locations of farms where engineering assessment has not yet been undertaken, and therefore these areas have the lowest level of precision and certainty. Project Sea Dragon reiterates that environmental approvals have been sought for Stage 1 of the development to this point only. The utility of the Master Plan is that for the purposes of non-Pastoral Use it enables the Pastoral Lands Board to consider the full extent of the proposal for Non-Pastoral Use. In building these facilities flexibility will be required in order to take account of more precise information in relation to environmental, cultural and heritage matters. TABLE 1: PROJECT SEA DRAGON – COMPONENTS Project Component Stage 1 Footprint (ha) Seawater intake pump station 9.32 Seawater intake channel 64.64 Settlement and maintenance pond 336.31 Main feeder channel 88.01 Freshwater channel 160.11 Farm 1 (including grow-out ponds, farm feeder channel, pond feeder 531.61 channels, pond discharge channels and farm discharge channel) Farm 2 (including grow-out ponds, farm feeder channel, pond feeder 485.10 channels, pond discharge channels and farm discharge channel) Farm 3 (including grow-out ponds, farm feeder channel, pond feeder 472.58 channel, pond discharge channel and farm discharge channel) Grow-out ponds Included in farm areas - individually each grow-out pond is 10 ha Farm feeder channels Included in grow-out farm footprint Pond feeder channels Included in grow-out farm footprint Pond discharge channels Included in grow-out farm footprint Farm discharge channels Included in grow-out farm footprint Internal farm recycling ponds (IFRP) 441.51 Main discharge channel (MDC) 120.18 Biosecurity zones 168.29 Environmental protection zone (EPZ) and outfall 376.44 Project Sea Dragon Pty Ltd October 2016 5 Project Component Stage 1 Footprint (ha) Farm services area 1 5.70 Farm services area 2 5.76 Legune Access Road 131.16 Central service road 129.73 Transmission line corridor 157.74 Central Facilities 21.48 Village 28.62 Borrow pits (shale and laterite) 52.86 Solar farms 50.27 Airstrip 23.55 Electrical Substation 0.48 These calculations of footprint refer to land use and are not equivalent to the areas calculated in the land clearing application for Stage 1. Attachment 11 is a map showing the proposed arrangement of aquaculture facilities based on the Master Plan and any other relevant information currently available. The red boundary shows the indicative limit to the aquaculture operations; the area within the red boundary markings is calculated to be 25,858 ha. There are a number of caveats to the proposed boundaries shown on Attachment 11. These are: i) Further consideration of sacred sites through both an Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority investigation and discussions with Traditional Owners towards an ILUA (see section 10) ii) Detailed design engineering and cost feasibility including issues that may emerge in relation to water movement (for Stages after Stage 1) iii) Environmental approvals. Project Sea Dragon Pty Ltd October 2016 6 5: LAND CLEARING Does the proposed area for non-pastoral use require a clearing permit? Yes No If yes please advise the current status of the land clearing application: Approved Pending approval Application to be lodged An application to clear land will be lodged. A map showing the vegetation communities on the property is at Attachment 3. A vegetation clearing map is at Attachment 4. Land will be cleared to prepare the site for earthworks to construct the infrastructure for Stage 1. Most of the area to be cleared for ponds is pasture, vegetated by native and introduced species. Additional clearing will be required for service corridors, borrow pit, and village and power station footprints that are located higher in the landscape in open woodland. 6: WATER REQUIREMENTS Licensing provisions apply to Water Control Districts and Water Allocation Plan areas. Contact the Department of Land Resource Management (DLRM) Water Resources Division on (08) 8999 4613 for advice on whether this applies to you. Is a water license required? Yes No If yes please advise the current status of the water license: Approved (please attach copy of permit) Pending approval Application to be lodged Project Sea Dragon requires both freshwater and seawater. There is sufficient fresh water available from the property’s existing dam to satisfy the Project’s needs for Stage 1 (7 to 9 GL/y). The dam’s current capacity is 35 GL. At full scale development the Project requires an average of 75 to 90 GL/y of fresh water. There is an existing and current license for freshwater extraction from Forsyth Creek Dam (License Number: 8110019) that enables the extraction of water for the property (Attachment 5).