Lower North East Forest Agreement and IFOA

NSW Forest Agreement for Lower North East Region

The Forest Agreement for the Lower North East Region of NSW was made on 5 March 1999 by the Ministers who are party to the agreement. A printed copy of the LNE Forest Agreement can be obtained from Environment Line or downloaded here:

Forest Agreement for the Lower North East Region of NSW - NSW Government (LNEagreement.pdf, 325KB)

Integrated Forestry Operations Approval (IFOA) Package for Lower North East Region

The IFOA package for the Lower North East Region includes:

• Explanatory Note - Integrated forestry operations approval for the Lower North East Region granted under the Forestry and National Park Estate Act 1998 (NEexplanatory.pdf, 16KB)
• Lower North East Integrated Forestry Operations Approval Package Incorporating Amendments (LNEIFOAcurrentissue.pdf, 223KB). Note: This is a compiled working document to include amendments and is not an official IFOA consolidation.
• Appendix A: Environment Protection Licence with amendments (LNEAppAEPLAmend2and3.pdf, 119KB). Note: This is a compiled working document  to include amendments to Appendix A of the IFOA package and is not an official consolidation.
  
  Some of the following schedules include amendments (but are not official consolidations).

  • Schedule 1 including amendments 1 and 2 (LNESchedule1amend23.pdf, 28KB)
  • Schedule 2 including amendment 2 (LNESchedule2amend2.pdf, 27KB)
  • Schedule 3 including amendment 2 (LNESchedule3amend2.pdf, 62KB)
  • Schedule 4 including amendments 2 and 3 (LNESchedule4amend23.pdf, 50KB)
  • Schedule 5 including amendment 2 (LNESchedule5amend2.pdf, 34KB)
  • Schedule 6 including amendments 2 and 3 (LNESchedule6amend23.pdf, 16KB)
  • Schematic Diagram of Stream Order (LNESchematicdiagram.pdf, 10KB)
• Appendix B: Terms of licence under the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 with amendments (LNEappBTSLAmend13.pdf, 994KB) Note: This is a compiled working document to include amendments and is not an official consolidation.
• Appendix C: Terms of licence under Part 7A of the Fisheries Management Act 1994 with amendments (LNEAppCFisheriesamend13.pdf, 173KB) Note: This is a compiled working document to include amendments and is not an official consolidation.
• Appendix D: Maps 1 to 5 – Land to which this approval does not apply (not available in electronic form)
• Appendix E: Clauses in the original IFOA which have been deleted by subsequent amendments (LNEIFOAAppendixEoriginalclauses.pdf, 1.4MB) Note: These clauses do not apply and are provided solely for historical reference.
• Cultural Heritage Guidelines (Clause 14) (CulturalHeritageGuide.pdf, 31KB)

Lower North East Region IFOA: Original approval and original amending instruments

• Original integrated forestry operations approval for the Lower North East Region - issued in 1999 as granted (LowerNorthEastIFOA.pdf, 128KB)
• Original amending instruments: December 2001 (IFOAAmend.pdf, 38KB), May 2003 (IFOAAmend2LNE.pdf, 267KB), December 2003 (IFOAAmend3LNE.pdf 144KB) and November 2011 (2011IFOAamend4LNE.pdf, 204KB).

The following Geographical Information System (GIS) maps (i.e data layers including metadata) are adopted by this IFOA:

• High Conservation Value Old Growth Forest
• Rainforest
• Rare Non-commercial Forest Types
• Fauna models
• Flora models
• Regrowth zone (no metadata exists)