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WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE UPPER NAMOI AND LOWER NAMOI REGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCES 2016

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 27 June 2018
- Reg 631 of 2015

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   1.      Name of Plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Date of commencement
   4.      Water sources and waters to which this Plan applies
   5.      Interpretation
   6.      Effect on licences, authorities and permits under the Water Act 1912

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

   7.      Vision, objectives, strategies and performance indicators
   8.      Vision
   9.      Objectives
   10.     Strategies
   11.     Performance indicators

   PART 3 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS

   12.     Environmental water provisions
   13.     Planned environmental water
   14.     Planned environmental water
   15.     Adaptive environmental water

   PART 4 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

   16.     Basic landholder rights
   17.     Domestic and stock rights
   18.     Native title rights

   PART 5 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   19.     Bulk access regime

   PART 6 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

   20.     Requirements for water under access licences
   21.     Share component of domestic and stock access licences
   22.     Share component of local water utility access licences
   23.     Share component of regulated river (high security) access licences
   24.     Share component of regulated river (general security) access licences
   25.     Share component of supplementary water access licences
   26.     Changes to total share component

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES

   27.     Rules for granting access licences

   PART 8 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term extraction limit

   28.     Limits to the availability of water
   29.     Volume of the long-term extraction limit
   30.     Assessment of the long-term extraction limit, the current long-term average annual extraction from these water sources and growth in water use by Tamworth City Council
   31.     Maintaining compliance with the long-term extraction limit
   32.     Limit to the volumes that may be taken under or assigned from regulated river (general security) access licences in the Lower Namoi Regulated River Water Source

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   33.     Available water determinations
   34.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   35.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   36.     Available water determinations for regulated river (high security) access licences
   37.     Available water determinations for regulated river (general security) access licences
   38.     Available water determinations for supplementary water access licences

   PART 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - General

   39.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 2 - Water allocation account management

   40.     Water allocation accounts
   41.     Accrual of water allocations
   42.     Volume taken under access licences
   43.     Accounting of assigned water allocations and return flows
   44.     Carrying over of water allocation credits and water allocation account limits

           Division 3 - Extraction conditions

   45.     General priority of extractions
   46.     Numerical specification of extraction components
   47.     Extraction of water in the Upper Namoi Regulated River Water Source under clause 37 (8) provisions
   48.     Taking of water under supplementary water licences in the Lower Namoi Regulated River Water Source

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   49.     Access licence dealing rules
   50.     Rules relating to constraints within these water sources
   51.     Rules for change of water source
   52.     Rules for conversion of access licence category
   53.     Rules for interstate access licence transfer
   54.     Rules for water allocation assignment between water sources
   55.     Rules for interstate assignment of water allocations

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   56.     Mandatory conditions on access licences
   57.     Mandatory conditions on water supply works approvals

   PART 12 - SYSTEM OPERATION RULES

   58.     System operation rules
   59.     Replenishment flows
   60.     Water delivery and channel capacity constraints
   61.     Rates of change to releases from water storages
   62.     Bulk transfer rules between storages
   63.     Supply of orders when remaining allocations are low
   64.     Dam operation during floods and spills

   PART 13 - MONITORING AND REPORTING

   65.     Monitoring

   PART 14 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   66.     Changes to these water sources
   67.     Other amendments of this Plan
   68.     Amendment relating to planned environmental water
   69.     Amendment of Plan relating to floodplain harvesting
   70.     Amendment relating to the taking of water under supplementary water licences
           SCHEDULE 1
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3
           APPENDIX 4


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