Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2015L01389:body:0:p39
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2015L01389
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 115132–119302

values
                                                                                                                                         * Aesthetic/landscape features and values
                                                                                                                                         * Scientific values
                                                                                                                                         * Infrastructure
3. Potential impacts
  (a)     Describe the proposal or action                                                                                                * Impacts on considerations above including short-term, long-term, off-site, cumulative, indirect and compounding impacts
  (b)     What are the predicted adverse impacts associated with the action?                                                             * Describe action components, activities, stages, scale, intensity and any associated infrastructure
  (c)      How severe are the potential impacts?                                                                                             + Human health and safety
  (d)     What is the extent of uncertainty about potential impacts?                                                                         + Biosecurity considerations
4. Impact avoidance and mitigation
  (a)     Will any measures to avoid or mitigate impacts ensure, with a high degree of certainty, that impacts are not significant?      * Consider timing, duration and frequency of actions/activities
                                                                                                                                           *   Include any alternative sites for actions
                                                                                                                                           *   Design factors and considerations
                                                                                                                                           *   Are there any acceptable impact offset actions?
5. Significance of impacts
  (a)     Considering all the matters above, is the action likely to have a significant impact on the environment?                      * If yes, the Director will consider whether the action should be referred for Ministerial consideration under the EPBC Act

    7.2              Capital works and infrastructure

Background
While this management plan is in operation, s.354(1) of the EPBC Act prohibits the Director and other persons carrying on an excavation, erecting a building or other structure, or carrying out works in the park except in accordance with this plan.
At the time of preparing this plan, Parks Australia occupies an office on Home Island and West Island and has staff housing facilities. As this infrastructure is not located within the park, it is not subject to this section of the management plan.
North Keeling Island currently has three small structures for storage of equipment and overnight accommodation used by staff or other persons engaged by the Director. The structures are constructed from steel with a fibreglass hull, built by staff on site from small components carried by staff onto the island from the landing site. Other management structures are a small storage shed at the landing site and some visitor interpretive signs. Current facilities are in need of maintenance due to exposure to saltwater, tropical weather conditions and interference by unauthorised visitors to the park.
If research and monitoring on North Keeling Island increases, camping (tent) structures will need to be temporarily erected and/or more robust temporary structures may need to be installed.

Issues
    * Any infrastructure in the park would need to be secure and able to withstand strong winds and severe weather and being unattended and unmaintained over long periods.
    * There are no freshwater sources on North Keeling Island.

What we are going to do

Policies
    7.2.1           The Director (including persons acting on behalf of the Director, such as park staff