Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00760:reg:2:p11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00760
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 2 (pt 11/32)
Character Range: 254321–257285

of decline in groundwater levels and the anticipated groundwater levels after 50 years from the commencement of the water resource plan; and
            (e) resource condition limits, being limits beyond which the taking of groundwater from the SDL resource unit will compromise the objectives in paragraphs (1)(a) and (b); and
            (f) restrictions on the water permitted to be taken (including the times, places and rates at which water may be taken) in order to prevent a resource condition limit from being exceeded.
(3) If the outcome of the requirement in subsection (1) is that such rules are necessary, the water resource plan must include those rules.

10.21 Additional requirements for Western Porous Rock, Gunnedah‑Oxley Basin MDB, Sydney Basin MDB and Goulburn‑Murray: Sedimentary Plain SDL resource units
 (1) A water resource plan for the NSW Murray‑Darling Basin Porous Rock water resource plan area must, in relation to the Western Porous Rock, Gunnedah‑Oxley Basin MDB and Sydney Basin MDB SDL resource units, include rules that are designed to ensure that the objectives set out in the following provisions are met:
 (a) section 10.18;
 (b) section 10.19;
 (c) section 10.20.
 (2) A water resource plan for the Goulburn‑Murray water resource plan area must, in relation to the Goulburn‑Murray: Sedimentary Plain SDL resource unit, include rules that are designed to ensure that the objective set out in section 10.20 is met.
Note: The objectives set out in the provisions referred to are the following:
(a) in section 10.18—that for priority environmental assets and priority ecosystem functions that depend on groundwater, the operation of the plan does not compromise the meeting of environmental watering requirements;
(b) in section 10.19—that for groundwater that has a significant hydrological connection to surface water, the operation of the plan does not compromise the meeting of environmental watering requirements;
(c) in section 10.20—that the operation of the plan does not compromise:
 (i) the overall structural integrity of the aquifer (whether within or outside the water resource plan area) arising from take within the long‑term annual diversion limit for an SDL resource unit; or
 (ii) the overall hydraulic relationships and properties between groundwater and surface water systems, between groundwater systems, and within groundwater systems.

        Division 4—How requirements have been met

10.22 Description of how requirements have been met
A water resource plan must:
            (a) describe what was done to comply with the requirements in this Part; and
            (b) if a risk of a kind referred to in subsection 10.41(1) has been identified in relation to the water resources of the water resource plan area—explain why rules addressing the risk have or have not been included in the plan.

        Part 5—Interception activities

10.23 Listing types of interception activity
(1) A water resource plan