Public consultation
DECC produces a range of draft plans, policies, agreements and reports inviting public comment. This page shows all draft documents on the DECC websites that are currently out for comment. See our public consultation archive for draft documents that are no longer open for comment.
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Documents for public comment, sorted by document type
| Policy - public exhibition | ^ Back to top |
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| Proposed Protection of the Environment Operations (General) Regulation 2008 - The draft POEO (General) Regulation 2008 aims to ensure that the provisions of the POEO Act can be implemented in an efficient and effective manner, recover the costs of administering the POEO Act and the Regulation as part of applying the polluter-pays principle, and provide additional incentive for the reduction of emissions of pollutants for activities under Schedule 1 of the POEO Act. This includes encouraging licensees subject to Load Based Licensing (LBL) to improve their environmental performance beyond what is required by the complementary command and control approaches. | |
| Draft NSW Construction Noise Guideline - The NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) is seeking community comment on a revised Construction Noise Guideline. It is intended that this will replace the Noise Control Guideline: Construction Site Noise published by the State Pollution Control Commission in 1985. The objective of the proposed guideline is to provide clear and consistent guidance on how to assess. Comments must be received by 19 September 2008. | |
| Shannon Creek Draft Conservation Agreement - A draft Conservation Agreement over land at Shannon Creek, near Coutts Crossing, managed by North Coast Water, a business unit of the Clarence Valley Council, has been prepared, in partnership with DECC. The Conservation Agreement protects significant natural heritage conservation values in perpetuity. | |
| The NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change and the NSW Department of Water and Energy invite stakeholders and members of the public to make comments in writing on the design of the Discussion Paper on the NSW Energy Efficiency Trading Scheme. Closing date for comments is Wednesday 6 August 2008. | |
| Draft Contaminated Land Management Regulation 2008 - The Contaminated Land Management Regulation 1998 is due for automatic repeal on 1 September 2008. It is proposed that a new Regulation be made under the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997 (CLM Act) by 1 September 2008. | |
| Draft general information for commercial fishing and aquaculture vehicle access permits - This permit application package is applicable to commercial fishing or aquaculture permit holders licensed under the Fisheries Management Act 1994 | |
| Interim Community Consultation Requirements for Applicants - DECC respects and acknowledges the role of Aboriginal people in the management and protection of their cultural heritage. Applicants for an AHIP are required to consult with members and representatives of Aboriginal communities that might be affected by the activity. To facilitate this, DECC developed Interim Community Consultation Requirements for Applicants to clarify consultation requirements. DECC is committed to a comprehensive review of these interim requirements before they are finalised. A Discussion Paper has been developed to identify the key issues raised with DECC, and to pose questions for consideration. | |
| Environmentally Hazardous Chemicals Act The EHC Act allows DECC to regulate activities of chemicals or groups of chemicals of environmental concern. These requirements are set out in chemical control orders and may require a licence or prohibit certain activities. The activities may include storing, transporting or treating chemicals and/or their wastes. | |
| Draft BioBanking Assessment MethodologyThis draft set of rules will be used to assess the biodiversity values that NSW's new BioBanking Scheme is designed to protect. | |
| Draft Compliance Assurance StrategyThis is a proposed strategy to ensure that the NSW BioBanking Scheme is implemented lawfully, equitably and transparently and that biodiversity values are conserved and improved. | |
| Regulatory Impact Statement: Proposed Threatened Species Conservation (Biodiversity Banking) Regulation 2007 This proposed regulation completes the legal framework for establishment of the BioBanking Scheme which aims to address the loss of biodiversity in NSW, including threatened species. | |
| Threatened Biodiversity Survey and Assessment: Guidelines for Developments and Activities - working draft (PDF - 487KB) - As the diversity of species and their habitats may be adversely affected by development, it is important that informed decisions regarding the impact of development can be made. | |
| Threatened Species Management: Policy and procedure statement No 08 (PDF - 179KB) Statewide prioritisation for recovery plan preparation | |
| Park management plan - public exhibition | ^ Back to top |
| Woodford Island Nature Reserve - draft plan of management - on public exhibition until 15 December 2008 | |
| Bees Nest Nature Reserve - draft plan of management - on public exhibition until 27 October 2008 | |
| Corramy State Conservation Area - draft plan of management - on public exhibition until 27 October 2008 | |
| Jerralong Nature Reserve - draft plan of management - on public exhibition until 27 October 2008 | |
| Avondale State Conservation Area - draft plan of management - on public exhibition until 13 October 2008 | |
| Dananbilla, Koorawatha, Illunie and Gungewalla Nature Reserves - draft plan of management - on public exhibition until 13 October 2008 | |
| Proposed Amendments to the Royal National Park, Heathcote National Park and Garawarra State Conservation Area Plan Of Management 2000 in relation to boat launching at Bonnie Vale - on public exhibition until 13 October 2008 | |
Proposed Amendments to the Royal National Park, Heathcote National Park and Garawarra State Conservation Area Plan of Management 2000 in relation to leases and licences - on public exhibition until 13 October 2008 | |
| Yaouk Nature Reserve - draft plan of managment - On public exhibition until 13 October 2008 | |
| Scabby Range Nature Reserve - draft plan of managment - On public exhibition until 13 October 2008 | |
| Rebuilding of Brooks and Sawyers Huts - draft plan - On public exhibition to 16 May 2008 | |
| Scott Nature Reserve - draft plan of management - On public exhibition to 30 June 2008. | |
| Jubullum Flat Camp Aboriginal Area - draft plan of management - On public exhibition until 23 June 2008. Aboriginal readers are warned that this plan contains names or images of some Aboriginal people who have since died. | |
| Whian Whian State Conservation Area - draft plan of management - On public exhibition until 23 June 2008. | |
Proposed amendments to the Plan of Management for Tweed Caldera National Parks and Nature Reserves - On public exhibition until 23 June 2008. | |
| Cockle Bay Nature Reserve - draft plan of management - On public exhibition to 21 April 2008 | |
| Wee Jasper Nature Reserve - draft plan of management - On public exhibition to 25 April 2008. | |
| Pest management plan - in preparation (public exhibition) | ^ Back to top |
| Draft regional pest management strategiesThe development of regional pest management strategies provides the National Parks and Wildlife Service with a strategic approach to pest management across NSW. The strategy developed for each region provides a tool to broadly identify pest distribution and their associated impacts across the parks. | |
| Pest management plan - public exhibition | ^ Back to top |
| Kosciuszko National Park Horse Management Plan - Members of the public are invited to comment on this draft plan - closing date 21 December 2007. All comments are welcome. | |
| Endangered species listing - public exhibition | ^ Back to top |
| Allocasuarina luehmannii Woodland in the Riverina and Murray-Darling Depression bioregions - proposed endangered ecological communityOn public exhibition until 14 September 2007 | |
| Calochilus pulchellus - proposed endangered species listingOn public exhibition until 23 November 2007 | |
| Hunter Valley Vine Thicket in the NSW North Coast and Sydney Basin Bioregions - proposed critically endangered ecological community listingOn public exhibition until 14 December 2007 | |
| Lower Hunter Valley Dry Rainforest in the Sydney Basin and NSW North Coast Bioregions - proposed vulnerable ecological community listingOn public exhibition until 14 December 2007 | |
| Prasophyllum 'innubum' - proposed critically endangered species listingOn public exhibition until 03 August 2007. | |
| Prasophyllum sp. 'Moama' - proposed endangered species listingOn public exhibition until 19 October 2007 | |
| Prasophyllum sp. aff. canaliculatum - proposed critically endangered species listingOn public exhibition until 03 August 07. | |
| Pterostylis despectans - proposed critically endangered species listingOn public exhibition until 19 October 2007 | |
| Rotala tripartita - proposed endangered species listingOn public exhibition until 14 September 2007. | |
| Sandhill Pine Woodland in the Riverina, Murray-Darling Depression and NSW South Western Slopes bioregions - proposed endangered ecological communityOn public exhibition until 14 September 2007. | |
| Tableland Basalt Forest in the Sydney Basin and South Eastern Highlands Bioregions - proposed endangered ecological communityOn public exhibition until 22 Jun 2007. | |
| Endangered species NON-listing - public exhibition | ^ Back to top |
| Koalas Phascolarctos cinereus occupying the coastal sub-catchments between Dignam's Creek and Wapengo Lagoon - proposed listing NOT supported | |
| Vulnerable species listing - public exhibition | ^ Back to top |
| Crinia sloanei - proposed vulnerable species listingOn public exhibition until 19/10/2007 | |
| Key threatening process listing - public exhibition | ^ Back to top |
| 1080 poison baiting used for the control of vertebrate pest animals - proposed listing NOT supportedThe NSW Scientific Committee has made a Preliminary Determination not to support a proposal to list 1080 poison baiting used for the control of vertebrate pest animals to be a 'key threatening process' in NSW. See its reasons for this. On public exhibition until 23/11/2007. | |
Page last updated: 16 September 2008