Government Gazette OF THE STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES Week No. 6/2010 Friday, 12 February 2010 Published under authority by Containing number 31 Strategic Communications and Government Advertising Pages 787 – 846 Level 16, McKell Building 2-24 Rawson Place, SYDNEY NSW 2001 Phone: 9372 7447 Fax: 9372 7425 Email: [email protected] CONTENTS Number 31 LEGISLATION DEADLINES Online notifi cation of the making of Statutory Instruments ........................................................... 787 Attention Advertisers . 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Dated, this 28th day of January 2010. Dr Richard Major Chairperson of the Scientific Committee Copies of final determinations and reasons Copies of the final determinations and the reasons for them are available to members of the public (free of charge) as follows: (a) on the Internet at www.environment.nsw.gov.au, (b) by contacting the Scientific Committee Unit, by post C/- Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water, PO Box 1967, Hurstville BC, 1481, by telephone (02) 9585 6940 or by facsimile (02) 9585 6606, (c) in person at the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water Information Centre, Level 14, 59–61 Goulburn St, Sydney. s2010-004-32.d04 Page 1 NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT GAZETTE No. 31 C:\Docs\si\s2010-004\d04\s2010-004EXN.fm 15/1/10, 02:19 pm 12 February 2010 LEGISLATION 789 FINAL DETERMINATION THE Scientific Committee, established by the Threatened Species Conservation Act has made a Final Determination to list the Central Hunter Grey Box – Ironbark Woodland in the NSW North Coast and Sydney Basin Bioregions as an ENDANGERED ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITY in Part 3 of Schedule 1 of the Act. Listing of Endangered Ecological Communities is provided for by Part 2 of the Act. The Scientific Committee has found that: 1. Central Hunter Grey Box – Ironbark Woodland in the NSW North Coast and Sydney Basin Bioregions is the name given to the ecological community that generally occurs on Permian sediments in the Hunter Valley and is characterised by the assemblage of species in paragraph 2. The community typically forms a woodland to open forest on slopes and undulating hills. 2. Central Hunter Grey Box – Ironbark Woodland is characterised by the following assemblage of species: Acacia pendula Acacia bulgaensis Ajuga australis Allocasuarina luehmanii Angophora floribunda Aristida ramosa Austrostipa scabra Bothriochloa decipiens Brachychiton populneus subsp. populneus Breynia oblongifolia Brunoniella australis Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Calotis lappulacea Callitris endlicheri Cassinia quinquefaria Cheilanthes sieberi subsp. seiberi Cheilanthes distans Chloris ventricosa Chrysocephalum apiculatum Cymbopogon refractus Cyperus gracilis Desmodium varians Dichondra repens Dodonaea viscosa Einadia nutans Eragrostis leptostachya Eremophila debilis Eucalyptus crebra Eucalyptus moluccana Glycine tabacina Lomandra multiflora subsp. multiflora Microlaena stipoides var. stipoides Melichrus ureceolatus Notelaea microcarpa var. microcarpa Phyllanthus virgatus Solanum cinereum Sporobolis creber Vittadinia cuneata 3. The total species list of the community is considerably larger than that given above, with many species present in only one or two sites or in low abundance. The species composition of a site will be influenced by the size of the site, recent rainfall, drought condition and by its disturbance (including fire and grazing) history. The number of species, and the above ground relative abundance of species will change with time since disturbance, and may also change in response to changes in disturbance regime (including changes in fire frequency). At any one time, above ground individuals of some species may be absent, but the species may be represented below ground in the soil seed banks or as dormant structures such as bulbs, corms, rhizomes, rootstocks or lignotubers. The list of species given above is of vascular plant species, the community also includes micro-organisms, fungi, cryptogamic plants and a diverse fauna, both vertebrate and invertebrate. These components of the community are poorly documented. 4. Central Hunter Grey Box – Ironbark Woodland typically forms a woodland dominated by Eucalyptus crebra (Narrow- leaved Ironbark), Brachychiton populneus subsp. populneus (Kurrajong) and Eucalyptus moluccana (Grey Box). Other tree species may be present and occasionally dominate or co-dominate, and include Angophora floribunda (Rough-barked Apple) and Callitris endlicheri (Black Cypress Pine). A shrub layer may also be present and common shrub species include Notelaea microcarpa var. microcarpa (Native Olive), Breynia oblongifolia (Coffee Bush), Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa (Native Blackthorn), Cassinia quinquefaria (Cough Bush) and Dodonaea viscosa (Hop Bush). Subshrubs may also be common and include Solanum cinereum (Narrawa Burr), and Phyllanthus virgatus (Spurge) and Maireana microphylla (Eastern Cotton Bush) (Peake 2006). Ground cover can be moderately dense to dense, and consist of numerous forbs and grass species, and a small number of ferns, sedges and twiners. The more common species include Cymbopogon refractus (Barbed Wire Grass), Aristida ramosa (Three-awned Wire Grass), Dichondra repens (Kidney Weed), Cheilanthes sieberi subsp. sieberi (Poison Rock Fern), Chloris ventricosa (Tall Chloris), Austrostipa scabra (Corkscrew Grass), Desmodium varians (Variable Tick-trefoil), Microlaena stipoides var. stipoides (Weeping Rice Grass), Eragrostis leptostachya (Paddock Lovegrass),