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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.
6.16 Notice to Environment Secretary
 (1) A carrier must notify the Environment Secretary, in writing, of a proposed maintenance activity, at least 10 business days before starting the activity, if subsection (2), (3) or (4) applies to the activity.
 (2) 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; or
 (g) could threaten with extinction, or significantly impede the recovery of, an endangered ecological community; or
 (h) could have an adverse effect on an endangered ecological community; or
 (i) could damage the whole or a part of the habitat of an endangered ecological community; or
 (j) could have a significant impact on the value of the National Heritage List place or a World Heritage List property.
 (3) The carrier must notify the Environment Secretary if the carrier proposes to engage in the activity at any of the following places:
 (a)  a declared World Heritage property (as identified in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999);
 (b) a place that Australia is required to protect by the terms of a listed international agreement;
 (c) an area that, under a law of the Commonwealth, is reserved wholly or principally for nature conservation purposes (however described);
 (d) an area that, under a law of the Commonwealth, is protected from significant environmental disturbance.
 (4) The carrier must notify the Environment Secretary if the carrier proposes to engage in the activity at or near an area or thing               of particular significance to Aboriginal persons, or Torres Strait Islanders, in accordance with their traditions.
 (5) However, the carrier and the Environment Secretary may agree, in writing, for alternative notification arrangements.
 (6) Subsection (7) applies if:
 (a) a carrier must notify the Environment Secretary of a proposed maintenance activity; and
 (b) the carrier must also notify the Director of National Parks of the proposed activity; and
 (c) the carrier has an agreement with