New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE NSW GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2008 - REG 37

37 Management of local impacts

(1) This Division is made in accordance with section 21 (a) of the Act.

(2) The Minister may declare a defined area to be known as a local impact area in order to:

(a) protect pressures in the Surat, Warrego and Central groundwater sources,

(b) protect water levels in the Eastern and Southern Recharge groundwater sources,

(c) protect water quality within a groundwater source, or

(d) protect groundwater-dependent ecosystems through the protection of water quality and/or water levels.

(3) A declaration under subclause (2) is to set out the local impact rules, which are to apply in a local impact area.

(4) The Minister is to advise in writing each licence or approval holder who is in a local impact area of the local impact rules that their licence or water supply works approval is now subject to.