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following financial year.

    26. End‑of‑Valley Targets

A State Contracting Government must monitor:

(a) the degree to which it is achieving an End‑of‑Valley Target;

(b) at the relevant site at which compliance with that target is to be measured,

    in accordance with any protocols adopted by the Authority under clause 40.

    27. Program to monitor Accountable Actions

       (1) A State Contracting Government nominated under sub‑clause 56(5) of the Agreement, in respect of a Joint work or measure that is an Accountable Action, must give the Authority a proposed program to monitor the salinity impacts of that Accountable Action within 3 months after the Government is nominated.

       (2) A Contracting Government must give to the Authority a proposed program to monitor the salinity impacts of any State Action undertaken by that Government within 3 months after the State Action has been completed.

       (3) The Authority may:

(a) accept a program given to it under sub‑clause 27(1) or 27(2); or

(b) accept that program with any amendment made by the Authority; or

(c) decline to accept the program, setting out its reasons.

       (4) The Authority may, from time to time, either:

(a) give directions to a Constructing Authority under paragraph 61(1)(a) of the Agreement; or

(b) make protocols under clause 40,

        to ensure that any Joint work or measure or any Former salinity and drainage work is monitored efficiently and effectively.

    28. Monitoring Accountable Actions

       (1) A Contracting Government nominated under sub‑clause 56(5) of the Agreement in respect of a Joint work or measure must monitor the salinity impacts of that Joint work or measure in accordance with a program accepted by the Authority under clause 27.

       (2) A State Contracting Government must monitor the salinity impacts of a State Action in the relevant State, in accordance with a program accepted by the Authority under clause 27.

PART VII — REPORTING, AUDIT AND REVIEW

    29. State Contracting Governments

       (1) A State Contracting Government must prepare and give to the Authority a Report under this clause in respect of each financial year, as soon as practicable after the end of that financial year and, in any case, by 30 November in the following financial year.

       (2) A Report under sub‑clause 29(1) must include:

(a) information about the progress of the relevant Government in undertaking:

(i) any Accountable Action; and
(ii) any Proposal of which the Authority has been informed; and
(iii) any Joint work or measure; and
(iv) any other element of the Strategy,

for which that Government is responsible; and

(b) a report about each valley in the State for which an End‑of‑Valley Target has been adopted, which sets out the information required by clause 30; and

(c) a report on the reviews