Marlborough Sounds Resource Management Plan 2 October 2014 • Drought code - 200 or higher, or • Build up index - 40 or higher as notified by the Rural Fire Authority for the burn area, pursuant to the Forest and Rural Fires Act 1977; or c) The proposed vegetation clearance site is not within any Riparian Management Zone specified in Appendix I of Volume Two and the ecology maps in Volume Three of the Plan; and d) The vegetation clearance site shall be revegetated within 24 months of the end of the operation, to a level where the amount of bare ground is no more than 20% greater than prior to vegetation clearance taking place; e) Top soil shall not be removed to a depth greater than 20mm over more than 15% of any vegetation clearance site; f) No more than 0.2 hectare of coastal broadleaved scrub and shrubland is cleared, per Certificate of Title within any 12 month period; or g) No more than 0.2 hectare of indigenous vegetation on ultramafic substrate is cleared, per Certificate of Title within any 12 month period; or h) No more than 0.2 hectares of indigenous forest cleared, per Certificate of Title, within a 12 month period; or i) Naturally occurring indigenous wetland vegetation or naturally occurring indigenous duneland vegetation shall not be cleared; and If the vegetation clearance is: − Under plantation forest or − Within 50 metres of a plantation forest, and is reasonably necessary to enable the management or harvesting of an existing plantation forest, then conditions (f)-(i) do not apply and the vegetation clearance is permitted subject to conditions (a)-(e). 36.1.5.4.2 Riparian Management Zone Woody vegetation, Sedges (Carex spp.) Native Toe Toe (Cortaderia spp.), and Flax (Phormium spp.), shall not be removed by chemical, fire or mechanical means within any riparian management zones as specified in Appendix I and Ecology Maps in Volume Three. Exceptions to this rule are: a) Existing plantations of commercial forest; or b) Other exotic trees occupying less than 100 metres per kilometre of legal riparian boundary; or c) Plant pests (including those listed in regional or national pest management strategies); or d) Vegetation within 10 metres either side of the centreline of a public road or which is otherwise impairing the safe and efficient use of that road. 36 - 8