74   Director-General may prepare threat abatement plans

(1)  The Director-General may prepare a threat abatement plan for each key threatening process to manage the threatening process:

(a)  so as to abate, ameliorate or eliminate its adverse effects on threatened species, populations or ecological communities, or

(b)  in the case of a key threatening process that could cause species, populations or ecological communities that are not threatened to become threatened, so as to prevent those species, populations or ecological communities from becoming threatened.

(2)  A threat abatement plan may contain provisions relevant to more than one key threatening process.

(3), (4)  (Repealed)