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Each registration includes multiple sites.
(5) The National Heritage List (NHL) has been established to list places of outstanding heritage significance to Australia. It includes natural, historic and Indigenous places that are of outstanding national heritage value to the Australian nation.
The Commonwealth Heritage List (CHL), established under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), comprises natural, Indigenous and historic heritage places which are either entirely within a Commonwealth area, or outside the Australian jurisdiction and owned or leased by the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth Authority; and which the Minister is satisfied have one or more Commonwealth Heritage values. The list can include places connected to defence, communications, customs and other Government activities.
The Australian Heritage Council is responsible for making recommendations to the Federal Minister for Heritage for registrations on both the CHL and the NHL.
Given that threshold levels for the CHL are lower than those for the NHL, it would be prudent to nominate any sites to the CHL prior to their nomination to the NHL. A place can be entered on both lists if it meets the relevant criteria and threshold levels.
Neither the ACT Government nor the ACT Heritage Council have nominated any of the seven Defence sites in the ACT for inclusion in either the CHL or the NHL. The ACT Government and ACT Heritage Council are responsible for the recognition, protection and promotion of heritage places located on Territory land and they are focussing their attention on those places within their jurisdiction where they have liberty to influence positive outcomes.
(6) The Government response indicated that statutory control of grasslands managed by Commonwealth agencies would be through the Commonwealth’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999. An ongoing co-ordination group has not been created.
The Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate (ESDD) collaborates with Commonwealth agencies on emerging management issues of interest rather than day to day management as this is considered a more strategic approach and where there is better value for the ACT from this engagement. These two forums have focussed on the impacts of two key threats to native grassland management: climate change and weeds as summarised below:
1. From Climate Change Challenges to Adaptation Solutions Workshop on 16 November 2011.
• The Workshop was attended by a range of Commonwealth Government officials including representatives from CSIRO, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, invasive species and natural resource management program areas and the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, conservation policy and threatening process sections.
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