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WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE HUNTER REGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCE 2016

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 27 June 2018
- Reg 376 of 2016

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION
   Note

   1.      Name of Plan
   2.      Nature and status of Plan
   3.      Commencement
   4.      Application of Plan
   5.      Management zones
   6.      Understanding the rules in this Plan
   7.      Interpretation

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

   8.      Vision statement
   9.      Acknowledgment
   10.     Environmental objectives, strategies and performance indicators
   11.     Economic objectives, strategies and performance indicators
   12.     Social and cultural objectives, strategies and performance indicators

   PART 3 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   13.     Bulk access regime
   14.     Climatic variability

   PART 4 - PLANNED ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS
   Note

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

   PART 5 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER

           Division 1 - General

   18.     Application

           Division 2 - Requirements for water for basic landholder rights

   19.     Domestic and stock rights
   20.     Native title rights

           Division 3 - Requirements for water for extraction under access licences

   21.     Share components of domestic and stock access licences
   22.     Share components of major utility (Barnard) access licences
   23.     Share components of major utility access licences
   24.     Share components of local water utility access licences
   25.     Share components of regulated river (high security) access licences
   26.     Share components of regulated river (general security) access licences
   27.     Share components of supplementary water access licences

   PART 6 - SYSTEM OPERATION RULES

   28.     Environmental flow rules for Glenbawn Dam and Glennies Creek Dam
   29.     Environmental water allowance rules for this water source
   30.     Maintenance of water supply
   31.     Water delivery and channel capacity constraints
   32.     Priority of extractions for access licences
   33.     Numerical specification of extraction components
   34.     Rates of change to storage releases
   35.     Supply of orders when remaining allocations are low
   36.     Dam operation during floods and spills
   37.     Flood mitigation zone rules

   PART 7 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

   38.     General
   39.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limit
   40.     Calculation of long-term average annual extraction limit
   41.     Assessment of the average annual extractions against the long-term average annual extraction limit
   42.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   43.     General
   44.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   45.     Available water determinations for major utility (Barnard) access licences
   46.     Available water determinations for major utility 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 supplementary water access licences

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING OF ACCESS LICENCES
   Note

   51.     Specific purpose access licences
   52.     Granting of access licences as a result of controlled allocation

   PART 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES
   Note

           Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules
           Note

   53.     Individual access licence account management rules

           Division 2 - Daily access rules

   54.      Flow reference points and flow thresholds for access to uncontrolled flows
   55.     Annual high flow tally
   56.     Access to uncontrolled flows by regulated river (high security) access licences and regulated river (general security) access licences
   57.     Access to uncontrolled flows under supplementary water access licences

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES
   Note

   58.     General
   59.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   60.     Assignment of rights dealings
   61.     Amendment of share components dealings (change of water source)
   62.     Assignment of water allocations dealings
   63.     Interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocation
   64.     Nomination of water supply works dealings

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
   Note

           Division 1 - General

   65.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
           Note

   66.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   67.     General

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   68.     General
   69.     Part 1
   70.     Part 9
   71.     Part 11
   72.     Dictionary
   73.     Other
           Dictionary
           SCHEDULE 1
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3
           APPENDIX 4
           APPENDIX 5


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