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• General permit application (PDF - 559 KB)
• Supplementary form C (PDF - 2.7 MB)

About the application

The Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts has received an application for approval for a permit to kill, injure, take, trade, keep or move a listed threatened species and ecological community in a Commonwealth Area under Part 13, section 200 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The application is to trap and take genetic samples from Grassland Earless Dragon (Tympanocryptis pinguicolla) and to manipulate natural temperate grassland of the Southern Tablelands and NSW and the Australian Capital Territory.

Please see the documents above for details on the proposal.

It is proposed that should the application be approved it would be in force for a period of up to five years.

In accordance with the provisions of section 200(3) of the Act, you are invited to comment on this proposal.

Please submit your comments by 30 January 2009.

Please include your full name and address in your submission.

Comments should be addressed to:

The Director
Commonwealth and Territories Section
Environment Assessment Branch
Approvals and Wildlife Division
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
GPO Box 787
Canberra ACT 2601

or can be e-mailed to: epbc.referrals@environment.gov.au

To assist in considering comments, you are encouraged to provide comments under the following headings:

• Management and methodology
• Monitoring procedures
• Ecological sustainability of the operation
• Animal welfare
• Other

See also

• More applications for listed species and ecological community permits for Commonwealth areas