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WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE GREATER METROPOLITAN REGION UNREGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCES 2011

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000 - As at 14 January 2018 - Reg 112 of 2011

Table of Provisions

PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

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  • 1 Name of 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

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  • 9 Vision statement
  • 9A Acknowledgement
  • 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

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  • 15 General
  • 16 Commitment and identification of planned environmental water
  • 17 Establishment and maintenance of planned environmental water
  • 18. (Repealed)

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 major utility access licences

PART 6 - SYSTEM OPERATION RULES

  • 27 General
  • 28 Environmental flow releases in the Shoalhaven River Water Source
  • 29 Releases for Shoalhaven City Council from Tallowa Dam in the Shoalhaven River Water Source
  • 30 Transfer rules from the Shoalhaven River Water Source to the Upper Nepean and Upstream Warragamba Water Source
  • 31 Interchange rules for Fitzroy Falls Reservoir and Lake Yarrunga in the Shoalhaven River Water Source
  • 32 Environmental flow releases in the Upper Nepean and Upstream Warragamba Water Source
  • 33 Releases for other purposes in the Upper Nepean and Upstream Warragamba Water Source
  • 34 Environmental flow releases in the Hawkesbury and Lower Nepean Rivers Water Source
  • 35 Releases for environmental and town water supply purposes in the Hawkesbury and Lower Nepean Rivers Water Source
  • 36 Environmental flow releases in the Southern Sydney Rivers Water Source
  • 37 Environmental contingency allowance rules for these water sources
  • 38 Banked environmental flow rules for these water sources
  • 39 Environmental flows reference group for these water sources
  • 39A Investigations into environmental release rules

PART 7 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

  • 40 General
  • 41 Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
  • 42 Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
  • 43 Assessment of average annual extraction against the long-term average annual extraction limit
  • 44 Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits

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 major utility (subcategory "Urban water") access licences
  • 49 Available water determinations for major utility (subcategory "Power generation") access licences
  • 50 Available water determinations for unregulated river access licences
  • 51 Available water determinations for unregulated river (high flow) access licences

PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES

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  • 52 Specific purpose access licences
  • 52A Granting of access licences as a result of controlled allocation

PART 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules

  • 53 General
  • 54 Individual access licence account management rules

Division 2 - Flow classes and daily access rules

  • 55 General
  • 56 Flow classes
  • 57 Access rules for the taking of surface water
  • 58 Total daily extraction limits
  • 59 Assignment of TDELs to categories of access licences
  • 60 Individual daily extraction limits

PART 10 - RULES FOR WATER SUPPLY WORK APPROVALS

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  • 61 General
  • 62 Granting or amending water supply work approvals

PART 11 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

  • 63 General
  • 64 Conversion of access licence to new category
  • 65 Assignment of rights dealings
  • 66 Amendment of share component dealings (change of water source)
  • 67 Amendment of extraction component dealings
  • 68 Assignment of water allocation dealings
  • 69 Interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocation
  • 70 Nomination of water supply works dealings

PART 12 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

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Division 1 - General

Division 2 - Access licences

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  • 71 General

Division 3 - Water supply work approvals

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  • 72 General

PART 13 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

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