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interim water resource plan, ceases to have effect is the BDL for the SDL resource unit.
Note: See section 1.07 for the meaning of BDL.
(2A)  For subsection 75(1) of the Act, the reduction is any reduction in the SDL for a SDL resource unit, compared with the limit specified for subsection (2), that results from the application of the SDL set by the Basin Plan from time to time.
(3) For paragraph 75(1)(a) of the Act, the amount of the reduction is the amount by which the BDL for the SDL resource unit exceeds the long‑term annual diversion limit for the SDL resource unit.
(4) For paragraph 75(1)(b) of the Act, the Commonwealth Government policy component of the reduction is 100% of the reduction.
(5) For paragraph 75(1)(c) of the Act, the new knowledge component of the reduction is zero.
(6) For paragraph 75(1)(d) of the Act, the Commonwealth's share of the reduction is 100% of the reduction.

6.14 Risks arising from other changes to the Basin Plan
Nothing in the Basin Plan requires a change in the reliability of water allocations of a kind that would trigger Subdivision B of Division 4 of Part 2 of the Act.

        Chapter 7—Adjustment of SDLs
Note: The SDLs will constitute limits from 1 July 2019. The surface water SDLs set out in Schedule 2 on the commencement of the Basin Plan in 2012 were based on:
             * infrastructure and other measures that were in operation or expected to be in operation by 2019, including as a result of investments that the Commonwealth is committed to funding, that would recover at least 600 GL of water per year ('anticipated measures' in this Chapter); and
             * the level of scientific understanding of the Basin hydrology and ecology at that time.
 This Chapter provides for the Authority to propose adjustments to the SDLs under section 23A of the Act. These will be made by amendment of the Basin Plan under section 23B of the Act.
 Under Part 2, the Authority can propose adjustments to surface water SDLs to take account of:
        (a) supply measures and efficiency measures that are notified by a process set out in section 7.12 and will come into operation by 31 December 2026; and
        (b) additional HEW entitlements that are acquired from time to time and specified by the Minister under section 7.08B.
 In this Chapter a 'supply measure' is a measure that increases the quantity of water available before take for consumptive use. The measure may do this either by making water available for environmental management without reducing consumptive take (e.g. through reducing evaporation losses at suitable storages) or by allowing environmental managers to achieve equivalent outcomes more efficiently,