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), May 2004 (IFOAAmend3LNE.pdf 144KB), November 2011 (2011IFOAamend4LNE.pdf, 204KB), and March 2013 (LNEIFOAamend5.pdf, 289KB) with Appendix D maps (LNEappDmaps1to6.pdf, 1.9MB). Compiled IFOA documents are being prepared to include the amendments - for legal purposes please refer to the original amending instruments.

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)