Section 35 - Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Tidal Restoration of Blue Carbon Ecosystems) Methodology Determination 2022 - Notification requirements

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35 Notification requirements

(1) The project proponent must notify the Regulator within 60 days of becoming aware that:

(a) an activity contrary to section 12 or 13 has occurred; or

(b) a tidal restriction mechanism, necessary infrastructure or drainage infrastructure relating to the project fails to operate in a way that, but for that failure, any land would not have been impacted land for the project; or

(c) a change has occurred to any tidal flows over any land such that the flows may be introduced, increased, reduced, modified or excluded over land in a way not envisaged in a current hydrological assessment for the project made under section 15; or

(d) a disturbance has occurred to any acid sulfate soils that is different to that envisaged in a current acid sulfate soils management plan for the project made under section 17;

(e) the mosquito hazard exceeds that envisaged in a current mosquito management plan for the project made under section 18.

(2) The project proponent must notify the Regulator within 60 days after any of the following events occur:

(a) a change occurs to any of the eligible project activities;

(b) an existing project operations and maintenance plan for the project is revised, or a new project operations and maintenance plan for the project is prepared;

(d) an existing project extent map is revised, or a new project extent map is prepared;

(e) an existing acid sulfate soils management plan is revised, or a new acid sulfate soils management plan is prepared;

(f) an existing mosquito management plan is revised, or a new mosquito management plan is prepared.