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WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE CLARENCE RIVER UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2016

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 6 January 2017
- Reg 381 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.      Extraction management units for these water sources
   6.      Understanding the rules of this Plan
   7.      Interpretation

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

   8.      Vision statement
   9.      Acknowledgment
   10.     Objectives
   11.     Strategies
   12.     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
   21.     Harvestable rights

           Division 3 - Requirements for water for extraction under access licences

   22.     Share components of domestic and stock access licences
   23.     Share components of local water utility access licences
   24.     Share components of unregulated river access licences
   25.     Share components of unregulated river (high flow) access licences
   26.     Share components of aquifer access licences

   PART 6 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER
   Note

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limits

   27.     General
   28.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   29.     Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
   30.     Assessment of average annual extractions against long-term average annual extraction limits
   31.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits for the EMUs
   32.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit for the Clarence River Coastal Floodplain Alluvial Groundwater Source

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   33.     General
   34.     Available water determinations for these connected water sources made at the commencement of this Plan
   35.     Available water determinations for these connected water sources after the first water year of this Plan
   36.     Available water determinations for the Bielsdown River Water Source, Blicks River Water Source, Upper Nymboida River Water Source and Wild Cattle Creek Water Source
   37.     Available water determinations for the Clarence River Coastal Floodplain Alluvial Groundwater Source

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
   Note

   38.     Specific purpose access licences
   39.     Granting of access licences as a result of controlled allocation

   PART 8 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES
   Note

           Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules

   40.      Individual access licence account management rules for these connected water sources, excluding the Bielsdown River Water Source, Blicks River Water Source, Upper Nymboida River Water Source, Wild Cattle Creek Water Source and Clarence River Coastal Floodplain Alluvial Groundwater Source
   41.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Bielsdown River Water Source, Blicks River Water Source, Upper Nymboida River Water Source and Wild Cattle Creek Water Source
   42.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Clarence River Coastal Floodplain Alluvial Groundwater Source

           Division 2 - Flow classes and daily access rules

   43.      General
   44.     Flow classes
   45.     Access rules for the taking of surface water
   46.     Total daily extraction limits
   47.     Individual daily extraction limits

   PART 9 - RULES FOR WATER SUPPLY WORK APPROVALS
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           Division 1 - Rules applying to the granting or amending of water supply work approvals for water supply works that take surface water

   48.     General
   49.     Granting or amending water supply work approvals

           Division 2 - Rules applying to the granting or amending of water supply work approvals for water supply works that take groundwater

   50.     General
   51.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works
   52.     Rules for water supply works located near contamination sources
   53.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent-ecosystems
   54.     Rules for water supply works located near potential acid sulfate soils
   55.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater-dependent culturally significant sites
   56.     Replacement groundwater works

           Division 3 - Rules for the use of water supply works used to take groundwater

   57.     Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   58.     General
   59.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   60.     Assignment of rights dealings
   61.     Amendment of share component dealings (change of water source)
   62.     Assignment of water allocation 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
   68.     Water supply works authorised to take water from groundwater

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   69.     General
   70.     Part 1
   71.     Part 4
   72.     Part 6
   73.     Part 8
   74.     Part 9
   75.     Part 11
   76.     Dictionary
   77.     Schedules
   78.     Other
           Dictionary
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3
           APPENDIX 4


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