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Preliminary Pages

Membership of the Committee

Chair

Mr Tony Windsor MP

 

Deputy Chair

Mr Steve Gibbons MP

 

Members

Hon Joel Fitzgibbon MP

 

 

Mr Barry Haase MP

 

 

Ms Kirsten Livermore MP

 

 

Mr Michael McCormack MP

 

 

Mr Rob Mitchell MP

 

 

Mr Dan Tehan MP

 

Supplementary Members for the purposes of the Inquiry

 

Hon Dr Sharman Stone MP

 

 

Committee Secretariat

 

Secretary

Glenn Worthington

Inquiry Secretary

Siobhán Leyne

Administrative Officers

Daniel Miletic

 

Katrina Gillogly


Terms of reference

 

On 29 May 2012 the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities asked the Committee to inquiry into and report on:

1.         progress to date in water recover towards bridging the gap by 2019 through both irrigation infrastructure investments and water purchase;

2.         the potential role that new environmental works and measures projects could play in partially offsetting SDL reductions under the Basin Plan, focussing particularly on prospective project proposals identified by state governments and community interests; and

3.         the groundwater sustainable diversion limits (SDLs) for Basin in the revised proposed basin Plan.


List of recommendations

 

1     Certain matters relating to the Murray Darling Basin Plan

Recommendation 1

The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth Government release a water recovery strategy well in advance of the introduction of the Basin Plan to the Parliament.

Recommendation 2

The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth Government release the proposal for Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder water trading well in advance to the introduction of the Basin Plan to the Parliament.

Recommendation 3

The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth Government develop a mechanism to adjust sustainable diversion limits automatically in response to efficiencies gained by environmental works and measures.

Recommendation 4

The Committee recommends that the Commonwealth Government, as a matter of urgency, look seriously at further initiatives to improve river and irrigation management and monitoring.

 

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