DEEP YELLOW LIMITED Deep Yellow Limited announced the Commonwealth Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) has approved the Mulga Rock Project Sandhill Dunnart Conservation Plan (SDCP), in accordance with condition 2 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) for the project. Implementation of the Mulga Rock Project (MRP) was approved under Ministerial Statement No. 1046 (MS 1046) on 16 December 2016.
Under Condition 2 of MS 1046, the Company was required to prepare the SDCP to manage the potential impact to the Sandhill Dunnart marsupial associated with the implementation of the project and reduce the threat to the Sandhill Dunnart posed by feral animals within the defined area. Condition 2 of MS1046 required further that the proposed defined area of the SDCP be located outside of the MRP development envelope and within the project boundary, contain at least 6,000ha of suitable habitat and contain a local population of Sandhill Dunnart.
