Peel Inlet and Harvey Estuary System Management Strategy ...

EPA Report on the Peel-Harvey Progress and Compliance Report, 2003
EPA Advice/Comment - 6
Where Minimum Acceptable Management Practices (MAMP’s) are not adopted through
voluntary take-up within 3 years of the development of an integrated catchment
management plan, regulations should be introduced through the Environmental
Protection Act to enable coercive action to be taken to achieve the level of conformance
in catchment behaviour that is required to protect the environment.
EPA Advice/Comment - 7
Effective Natural Resource Management legislation should be passed to:
• enable proper coordination of NRM activities to occur at all levels;
• establish a biding “duty of care” on all land users;
• to facilitate the formation and use of government, community and industry
partnerships for NRM; and
• establish mechanisms for assigning accountabilities for actions;
with the goal of achieving environmentally acceptable development on rural land.
EPA Advice/Comment - 8
The EPA will liaise with the proponents with a view to the proponents submitting a
request under S46 of the Environmental Protection Act for the Environmental Conditions
to be amended, and proposing the nature of those amendments.
EPA Advice/Comment - 9
In any review of the Environmental Conditions, consideration will need to be given to the
procedures which may be required to set down the Minister’s expectations of nonproponent
management agencies.
12.2 General
• The work of the Peel-Harvey Expert Review Committee has been carried out in a
competent and thorough manner by people who are experts in management of
environmental systems and natural resource and catchment management.
• The EPA accepts and endorses the advice and recommendations provided to it by
the Peel-Harvey Expert Review Committee (although not necessarily their precise
wording).
• The proponents for the Peel-Harvey System Management Strategy have not fully
complied with the environmental conditions set on the project by the Minister for
Environment.
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