Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2008A00139:schedule:1:p68
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2008A00139
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 68/128)
Character Range: 262709–265658

as practicable, prepare and give to the Authority estimated baseline conditions relating to the salinity, salt load and flow regime at each site at which it proposes to measure that Government's compliance with an End‑of‑Valley Target (if adopted) for the portion of the Murray‑Darling Basin within that State, as at 1 January 2000.

       (4) Sub‑clauses 5(6), (7) and (8) apply to estimated baseline conditions prepared by the Australian Capital Territory under sub‑clause 5(3) as if they were an amendment proposed under sub‑clause 5(5).

       (5) A State Contracting Government or the Authority (as the case requires) may, from time to time, propose an amendment to any estimate of a baseline condition, using the best information available to the State Contracting Government or the Authority at the time the amendment is proposed.

       (6) The Authority must appoint an appropriately qualified panel, which shall include at least one representative from each State Contracting Government, to review and advise the Authority about any proposed amendment to any estimate of baseline conditions made by a State Contracting Government or the Authority.

       (7) After considering the advice of the panel, the Authority may:

(a) approve a proposed amendment; or

(b) approve that proposed amendment, subject to the relevant Government modifying it in any way agreed between the Authority and the relevant Government; or

(c) refuse to approve the proposed amendment.

       (8) Within 6 months after the Authority and the relevant Government agree on a modification under paragraph 5(7)(b), the relevant Government must:

(a) modify the estimate in accordance with that agreement; and

(b) give the Authority a copy of the modified estimate.

       (9) An estimate of baseline conditions, in the form initially given to the Authority, may be used temporarily for the purposes of this Schedule until the relevant Government has complied with sub‑clause 5(8).

    6. Meeting End‑of‑Valley Targets

       (1) Each State Contracting Government must, by 31 March 2004 and thereafter at intervals of not more than 5 years, give the Authority its proposed Program of actions to meet End‑of‑Valley Targets adopted for that State.

       (2) A proposed Program of actions must include the following information about the salinity, salt load and, where relevant, the flow regime at each site at which compliance with an End‑of‑Valley Target is to be measured:

(a) the Baseline Conditions; and

(b) the Government's estimate of Delayed salinity impacts in each of 2015, 2050 and 2100 if no action were taken to reduce or limit such salinity impacts; and

(c) the relevant End‑of‑Valley Target; and

(d) the predicted effect of implementing the proposed Program of actions in each of 2015, 2050 and 2100.

       (3) The Authority must estimate (using the best information available to the Authority at the time the estimate