Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557:section:13:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 13 (pt 1/4)
Character Range: 123365–129493

13                               A program for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the Basin Plan.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 The program must include the principles to be applied and the framework to be used to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the Basin Plan.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The program must include reporting requirements for the Commonwealth and the Basin States.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The program must include 5 yearly reviews of:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              (a) the water quality and salinity targets in the water quality and salinity management plan; and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              (b) the environmental watering plan; and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              (c) the social and economic impacts of the Basin Plan.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The program must provide for the first of each of those reviews to be completed before the end of 2020.

Note: The Basin Plan must also include matters relating to critical human water needs (see Part 2A).
 (2) Areas identified as water resource plan areas under item 2 of the table in subsection (1) may overlap.
Note: Although the areas may overlap, they may relate to different water resources within the common area.
 (3) Without limiting item 11 of the table in subsection (1), the requirements specified under that item for a water resource plan for a water resource plan area must include requirements in relation to:
 (a) the identification of the water resource plan area; and
 (b) the incorporation, and application, of the long‑term annual diversion limit for the water resources of the water resource plan area (see also subsections (6A) and (6B)); and
 (c) the sustainable use and management of the water resources of the water resource plan area within that diversion limit; and
 (ca) having regard to social, spiritual and cultural matters relevant to Indigenous people in relation to the water resources of the water resource plan area in the preparation of the water resource plan; and
 (d) the regulation, for the purposes of managing Basin water resources, of interception activities with a significant impact (whether on an activity‑by‑activity basis or cumulatively) on those water resources; and
 (e) planning for environmental watering; and
 (f) water quality and salinity objectives for the water resource plan area; and
 (g) the circumstances in which tradeable water rights in relation to the water resource plan area may be traded, or transferred, and the conditions applicable to such trades or transfers; and
 (h) broad approaches to the way risks to the water resources of the water resource plan area should be addressed; and
 (i) metering the water taken from the water resources of the water resource plan area and monitoring the water resources of the water resource plan area; and
 (j) reviews of the water resource plan and amendments of the plan arising from those reviews; and
 (k) the scientific information or models on which the water resource plan is to