Site-specific Assessments of Environmental Effects

B-1 - Area 1, Coromandel Forest Park – Assessment of Environmental Effects 30 Table 2: Proposed conditions for the Waihi North Biodiversity Project. Condition Explanation Note [Note – the details of the Waihi North Biodiversity Project are currently being consulted on with Tangata Whenua and the Dept of Conservation. This engagement process will be ongoing following lodgement of the consent applications. Through that process it is envisaged that details on the project objectives and the mechanism for overseeing the design, governance, implementation, monitoring and review of the project may be agreed prior to a decision on the applications being made. If that is the case conditions will need to be proposed which reflect the agreed outcome. The proposed conditions below are proposed to provide an indication of what a condition structure could look like in the event agreement has not been reached by the time a decision on the application is made. C9 The Consent Holder must establish and implement a Biodiversity Enhancement and Predator Control Programme (Biodiversity Project) within the approximately 18,870 hectare of public conservation land shown in Schedule 1 (the Biodiversity Project Area) in accordance with Conditions C10 to C19 of this consent. The Biodiversity Project is not required to remedy, mitigate, offset or compensate for any adverse effects of the mining activities associated with the Waihi North project. The Biodiversity Project is a beneficial action to be undertaken voluntarily by the Consent Holder in addition to other biodiversity-related actions required by this consent. The Biodiversity Project is in addition to pest management the Consent Holder is required to undertake in the Wharekirauponga Animal Pest Management Area under conditions 154 – 165 of the Hauraki District Council Land Use Consent. Waihi North Biodiversity Project Fund C10 Prior to commencing construction of the Dual Tunnel within Area 1 the Consent Holder shall make available sufficient funds to finance the design of the Waihi North Biodiversity The Dual Tunnel is expected to take about 3 years to reach the ore resource. During this period the Biodiversity

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