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WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE BEGA AND BROGO RIVERS AREA REGULATED, UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2011

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 27 June 2018
- Reg 110 of 2011

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION
   Note

   1.      Name of this Plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Commencement of this Plan
   4.      Application of this Plan
   5.      Management Zones
   6.      Extraction management units in these water sources
   7.      Understanding the rules in this Plan
   8.      Interpretation

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
   Note

   9.      Vision statement
   10.     Objectives
   11.     Strategies
   12.     Performance indicators

   PART 3 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   13.     Bulk access regime
   14.     Climatic variability

   PART 4 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS
   Note

           Division 1 - Planned environmental water

   15.     General
   16.     Commitment and identification of planned environmental water
   17.     Establishment and maintenance of planned environmental water

           Division 2 - Adaptive environmental water

   18.     Adaptive environmental water provisions

   PART 5 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER

           Division 1 - General

   19.     Application

           Division 2 - Requirements for water for basic landholder rights

   20.     Domestic and stock rights
   21.     Native title rights
   22.     Harvestable rights

           Division 3 - Requirements for water for extraction under access licences

   23.     Share components of domestic and stock access licences
   24.     Share components of local water utility access licences
   25.     Share components of unregulated river access licences
   26.     Share components of aquifer access licences
   27.     Share components of unregulated river (high flow) access licences
   28.     Share components of regulated river (high security) access licences
   29.     Share components of regulated river (general security) access licences
   30.     Share components of supplementary water access licences

   PART 6 - SYSTEM OPERATION RULES

   31.     General
   32.     Operational rules for Cochrane Dam
   33.     Operational rules for Brogo Dam
   34.     Water delivery and channel capacity constraints for Bega and Brogo Regulated Rivers Water Source
   35.     Rates of change to storage releases from Brogo Dam
   36.     Supply of orders from Brogo Dam when remaining allocations are low
   37.     Dam operation during floods and spills
   38.     Supply for domestic and stock rights, native title rights and access licences

   PART 7 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

   39.     General
   40.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   41.     Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
   42.     Assessment of average annual extraction against the long term average annual extraction limit
   43.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit in the Bega River Catchment Extraction Management Unit
   44.     Compliance with the long term average annual extraction limits in the Bega and Brogo Regulated Rivers Extraction Management Unit

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   45.     General
   46.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   47.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   48.     Available water determinations for regulated river (high security) access licences
   49.     Available water determinations for regulated river (general security) access licences
   50.     Available water determinations for unregulated river access licences
   51.     Available water determinations for unregulated river (high flow) access licences
   52.     Available water determinations for aquifer access licences
   53.     Available water determinations for supplementary water access licences

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
   Note

   54.     Specific purpose access licences

   PART 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules

   55.      General
   56.     Individual access licence account management rules for these water sources, excluding the Bega and Brogo Regulated Rivers Water Source
   57.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Bega and Brogo Regulated Rivers Water Source

           Division 2 - Rules for access licences in the Bega and Brogo Regulated Rivers Water Source

   58.     General
   59.     General priority of extractions
   60.     Numerical specification of extraction components
   61.     Taking of uncontrolled flows under regulated river (general security) access licences
   62.     Taking of water under supplementary water access licences

           Division 3 - Rules for access licences in these water sources, excluding the Bega and Brogo Regulated Rivers Water Source

   63.     General
   64.     Flow classes
   65.     Access rules for the taking of surface water
   66.     Access rules for the Upper Tantawangalo Creek Management Zone in the Tantawangalo Creek Water Source
   67.     Access rules for the taking of water from these alluvial sediments
   68.     Total daily extraction limits
   69.     Initial assignment of TDELs to categories of access licences
   70.     Individual daily extraction limits

   PART 10 - RULES FOR WATER SUPPLY WORK APPROVALS
   Note

           Division 1 - Rules applying to water supply works that take surface water

   71.     General
   72.     Granting or amending water supply work approvals

           Division 2 - Rules applying to water supply works that take groundwater

   73.     General
   74.     Granting or amending water supply work approvals
   75.     Rules for amending water supply work approvals for replacement groundwater works
   76.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works
   77.     Rules for water supply works located near contamination sources
   78.     Rules for water supply works located near sensitive environmental areas
   79.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent culturally significant sites
   80.     Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances

   PART 11 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   81.     General
   82.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   83.     Assignment of rights dealings (within water sources)
   84.     Amendment of share component dealings (change of water source)
   85.     Amendment of extraction component dealings
   86.     Assignment of water allocation dealings
   87.     Interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocation
   88.     Nomination of water supply works dealings

   PART 12 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

           Division 1 - General

   88A.    General

           Division 2 - Access licences
           Note

   89.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   90.     General
   91.     Water supply works used to take groundwater

   PART 13 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   92.     General
   93.     Part 1
   94.     Part 6
   95.     Part 9
   96.     Part 10
   97.     Part 12
   98.     Schedules
   99.     Other
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 6
           SCHEDULE 7
           SCHEDULE 8
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3


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