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or a public utility, is engaging in, or proposing to engage in, a similar activity for the same land; and
 (b) to consider whether it is practicable to work with the other carrier or the utility to allow the first carrier:
 (i) to cause as little detriment and inconvenience as is practicable; and
 (ii) to do as little damage as is practicable.
           Note  The carrier is required to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the carrier causes as little detriment and inconvenience, and does as little damage, as practicable in engaging in the activity: see Act, Schedule 3, clause 8.

Part 4 Director of National Parks and Environment Secretary

4.16 Notice to Director of National Parks
 (1) The Director of National Parks is responsible for the administration, management and control of Commonwealth reserved and conservation zones under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
 (2) If a proposed low-impact facility activity of a carrier is likely to be undertaken in, or have an effect on, any of the areas for which the Director is responsible, the carrier must notify the Director in writing of the activity.
 (3) The Director must be notified at least 10 business days before the start of the activity.
 (4) However, the carrier and Director may agree, in writing, for alternative notification arrangements.
4.17 Notice to Environment Secretary
 (1) Before engaging in a low-impact facility activity, a carrier must take all reasonable steps to find out whether the carrier would be required to notify the Environment Secretary of the activity under this section.
 (2) However, the carrier and the Environment Secretary may agree, in writing, on how the carrier is to find out whether the carrier would be required to notify the Environment Secretary.
 (3) The carrier must notify the Environment Secretary, in writing, of a proposed low-impact facility activity, at least 10 business days before the start of the activity, if subsection (4), (5) or (6) applies to the activity.
 (4) The carrier must notify the Environment Secretary if the activity:
 (a) is, or is likely to be, inconsistent with Australia's obligations under a listed international agreement; or
 (b) could threaten with extinction, or significantly impede the recovery of, a threatened species; or
 (c) could put a species of flora or fauna at risk of becoming a threatened species; or
 (d) could have an adverse effect on a threatened species of flora or fauna; or
 (e) could damage the whole or a part of a habitat of a threatened species of flora or fauna; or
 (f) could damage the whole or a part of a place, or an ecological community, essential to the continuing existence of a threatened species of flora or fauna;