New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SYDNEY WATER ACT 1994 - SECT 26

26 Amendment of pollution reduction targets

(1) After the Corporation has adopted a target under section 23 (4), the Environment Protection Authority may, from time to time, re-determine the target.

(2) The Corporation is to adopt a target as re-determined by the Environment Protection Authority. Subsections (5)-(7) of section 23 then apply to the re-determined target.

(3) The Environment Protection Authority may, for the purpose of assessing whether to re-determine a target under this section, require the Corporation to carry out a further ecological risk assessment and provide a report on that assessment to the Environment Protection Authority by a specified date. Sections 23-25 apply, with necessary modifications, to any such further ecological risk assessment and report.

(4) Any target re-determined in accordance with this section is to be re-determined by the Environment Protection Authority having regard to the following:

(a) the report on any further ecological risk assessment or, if no further assessment is made, the report on the previous assessment,

(b) any public comments on the report on the further assessment that has been provided to the Authority by the Corporation in accordance with section 25 (3) (as applied by this section) or, if no further assessment is made, any such public comments on the previous report,

(c) such other factors as appear relevant to the Authority, taking into account the statutory obligations of the Authority under any Act.

(5) The Corporation and the Environment Protection Authority are to enter the reasons for the re-determination of a target in the registers kept by the Corporation and the Authority under section 23 (6).