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The Authority must seek the advice of the Basin Officials Committee at least 1 month before proposing adjustments in accordance with this Chapter.

7.06 Public consultation
Before finalising a determination of the amounts of proposed adjustments in accordance with this Chapter, the Authority must:
            (a) publish a draft determination of the amounts of the proposed adjustments on its website, with an account of how they were arrived at and the reasons for decisions made in arriving at the draft determination; and
            (b) invite the public to make submissions about the draft determination within a period of not less than 1 month.

7.07 Combined proposals
(1) The Authority may make proposals under Parts 2 and 4 at the same time.
(2) Where this is done, the Authority may, for the purpose of section 23B of the Act, treat the proposals as a single proposal and prepare a set of amendments that gives effect to the net effect of the proposals.

7.08 Constraints management strategy
(1) Within 12 months after the commencement of the Basin Plan, the Authority must prepare a constraints management strategy that:
            (a) identifies and describes the physical, operational and management constraints that are affecting, or have the potential to affect, environmental water delivery; and
            (b) assists all jurisdictions to participate in constraint measures in order to allow environmental water to be used to maximum effect and to maximise the benefits of any increase in held environmental water; and
            (c) evaluates options, opportunities and risks to water users, communities and the environment, associated with addressing key constraints, including through constraint measures that are relevant to measures that might be notified under section 7.12; and
            (d) assesses the impacts of modifications of constraints on environmental water delivery and third parties, as well as downstream impacts, and assesses options to address those impacts; and
            (e) identifies mechanisms by which impacts on third parties can be addressed.
(2) The strategy, and any substantive amendments to the strategy, must be prepared in consultation with the Basin States and the public.
(4) The Authority must publish the strategy on its website.

7.08A  Constraints relaxation implementation roadmap
(1) The object of this section is to assist the Commonwealth and Basin States to identify measures to relax constraints, and develop and implement them in a way that:
            (a) maximises the benefits of the constraint measures to deliver environmental outcomes, including but not limited to enhanced environmental outcomes and outcomes identified by the Constraints Management Strategy; and
            (b) provides, as far as practicable, a common approach across river systems and jurisdictions including, but not limited to, in relation to:
                (i) reporting, transparency and public accountability; and
                (ii) program implementation and governance including regulatory approvals; and
                (iii) supporting