Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2018L00562:clause:1_7:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2018L00562
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Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 7 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 77328–79788

7  Fire emissions for a calendar year, EF
Fire emissions
 (1) For the definitions of EF in section 4 of this Schedule and EF,y in section 6 of this Schedule, the fire emissions for a project area in a particular calendar year is given by the following equation:

  equation 5

  where:
v is a vegetation fuel type on the vegetation fuel type map for the project area.
s is the fire season, and takes on the values early dry season and late dry season.
CEv,s is the carbon emissions per hectare of a fire in the project area that burns a hectare of vegetation fuel type v in fire season s of the calendar year, in tonnes CO2-e per hectare—from equation 6.
SFS,v,s is the fire scar area for the project area, in hectares, for vegetation fuel type v in fire season s of the calendar year, and is calculated, using GIS software, by:
 (a) overlaying the vegetation fuel type map with the seasonal fire map for fire season s of the calendar year; and
 (b) from that combined map, for each vegetation fuel type v, calculating the area that was burnt during the fire season s.
Note: The savanna technical guidance document provides for how to create the seasonal fire maps.
Ps is the patchiness for fire season s, from the National Inventory Report.
Carbon emissions per hectare
 (2) For subsection (1), the carbon emissions per hectare of a fire in the project area that burns a hectare of vegetation fuel type v in fire season s of a calendar year, in tonnes CO2-e per hectare, CEv,s, is given by the following equation:

  equation 6

  where:
g is a greenhouse gas, and takes on the values methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O).
f is a fuel size class, and takes on the values of each of the fuel size classes.
BEf,s is the burning efficiency of fuel of fuel size class f in fire season s—from the National Inventory Report.
FLf,v,s is the fuel load for the project area, in tonnes of biomass per hectare, of fuel size class f of vegetation fuel type v for fire season s of the calendar year, and is calculated in accordance with:
 (a) for shrub fuel and fine fuel—section 8; and
 (b) for coarse fuel and heavy fuel—section 9.
Note: The fuel load FLf,v,s for coarse fuel and heavy fuel will be the same for both fire seasons s.
EFg,f,v is the emission factor for greenhouse gas g for fuel size class f of vegetation fuel type v—from the National Inventory Report.
CCf,v is the carbon content for fuel size class f of vegetation fuel type v, in tonnes of carbon per