Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00760:front:0:p65
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00760
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co‑operative watering regimes) between holders of held environmental water, managers of planned environmental water, and owners or managers of environmental assets for the delivery of environmental water:
            (a) within the water resource plan area; and
            (b) between that area and upstream and downstream water resource plan areas;
         that will ensure that environmental water meets the environmental watering requirements identified in accordance with subsections (1), (2) and (3).

Identification of long‑term risks
(5) A long‑term watering plan must identify:
            (a) long‑term risks to providing for the environmental watering requirements of priority environmental assets and priority ecosystem functions; and
            (b) the strategies to manage those risks having regard to the strategies in Chapter 4.

Operational constraints
(6) A long‑term watering plan must:
            (a) identify any operational constraints in relation to environmental watering in the water resource plan area; and
            (b) include strategies to manage or overcome those constraints.

Supporting information
(7) A long‑term watering plan must include references to the information that informed its preparation.

Incorporation of other material
(8) A long‑term watering plan may provide that a specified instrument or text, or specified part of an instrument or text, is part of the plan.

8.20 Preparation of long‑term watering plans

Consultation requirements
(1) A Basin State must prepare a long‑term watering plan in consultation with:
            (a) holders of held environmental water; and
            (b) managers of planned environmental water; and
            (c) river operators; and
            (d) local communities, including bodies established by a Basin State that express community views in relation to environmental watering; and
            (e) persons materially affected by the management of environmental water.
Note:  Under paragraphs (a) and (b), a Basin State may consult with any holder or manager whose environmental water could contribute to environmental watering in the water resource plan area, regardless of the location of the holder or manager, or of the location of the water.

Matters to which Basin State is to have regard
(2) When preparing a long‑term watering plan, a Basin State must have regard to the Basin‑wide environmental watering strategy (Division 2).
Note: Paragraph 8.13(2)(c) provides that one of the purposes of the Basin‑wide environmental watering strategy is to help co‑ordinate the management of environmental water, including guiding the development of consistent long‑term watering plans.
(3) A long‑term watering plan must be developed consistently with the principles to be applied in environmental watering (Division 6).

Advice from the Authority
(4) The Authority may advise, or assist, a Basin State in preparing a long‑term watering plan, or an updated long‑term watering plan.

Consistency with international agreements
(5) A long‑term watering plan must not be inconsistent with relevant international agreements.
Note: A purpose of the Basin Plan, including Chapter 8, is to give effect to relevant