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Managing Vegetation Disturbance under the RMA: The Way Forward: Forestry and the RMA

October 1999, Ref. ME330

This working paper summarises the findings of a working party which included councils and forest owners. It provides a Ministry view on the preferred approach to managing vegetation and soil disturbance activities under the Resource Management Act, and includes a set of model permitted activity conditions for these activities.

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Executive Summary

  1. Introduction
  2. Key Issues
  3. Change in Councils' Approach
  4. Ministry's Preferred Approach
  5. Maximising the Use of Permitted Activity Conditions
  6. Model Permitted Activity Conditions
  7. Legal Criteria for Permitted Activity Conditions
  8. Model Conditions for Associated Soil Disturbance Activities
  9. Definitions
  10. Explanation of Conditions
  11. References

 

 

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