Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The draft water resource plan must--
(a) state the purpose of the draft plan; and
(b) contain a map of the proposed plan area; and
(c) state the water to which the draft plan is intended to apply; and
(d) state the water and natural ecosystem monitoring requirements to assist in assessing the effectiveness of the proposed management strategies in achieving the outcomes mentioned in paragraph (e); and
(e) state the outcomes, including, without limiting the requirement to state outcomes, the ecological outcomes, for the sustainable management of the water; and
(f) state the strategies proposed to achieve the outcomes to the extent possible from the best scientific information available; and
(g) state the periodic reporting requirements for the draft plan; and
(h) include a schedule of proposed arrangements for implementing the draft plan.
(2) The draft plan may include, but is not limited to, the following--
(a) a map or diagram, or series of maps or diagrams, showing water information for the area;
(b) details of areas where, and the way in which, taking overland flow water, or taking or interfering with subartesian water, or both, is intended to be regulated;
(c) the types of works for taking or interfering with overland flow water, subartesian water or water in a watercourse, lake or spring that are intended to be assessable or self assessable development under the Integrated Planning Act 1997;
(d) information about water available for future consumptive purposes and the priorities for use or reservation of the water;
(e) a process for granting, reserving or otherwise dealing with unallocated water to which the draft plan is intended to apply;
(f) criteria for sharing overland flow water;
(g) criteria for adjusting existing water entitlements to achieve the plan outcomes;
(h) criteria for addressing degradation that has occurred in natural ecosystems;
(i) the plan's objectives and performance indicators for the objectives.
(3) The draft plan may provide for the amendment or the continuation, completely or partly, of the effect of a moratorium notice for water in the proposed plan area and to which the draft plan applies (the moratorium water) until a resource operations plan that applies to the moratorium water is approved for the plan.
(4) If the draft plan provides a framework for establishing water allocations, the draft plan must state the following--
(a) performance indicators for environmental flow objectives and water allocation security objectives;
(b) environmental flow objectives;
(c) water allocation security objectives;
(d) priorities for the conversion to or granting of water allocations.
(5) The draft plan, to the extent it applies to a wild river area, must not be inconsistent with the wild river declaration for the area.