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Scheme participants and management

Scheme participants

Licence holders and credit allocations at commencement of the Regulation

Credit holder	Licence number (if applicable)	Premises name (if applicable)	No. of credits
Bengalla Mining Company Pty Ltd	6538	Bengalla Mine	35
Bulga Coal Management Pty Ltd	563	Saxonvale Colliery Holding	40
Camberwell Coal Pty Ltd	3390	Camberwell Coal Mine Colliery Holding	15
Coal and Allied Industries Ltd Operations	640	Hunter Valley	120
Coal and Allied Industries Ltd Holding	1976	Mt Thorley Colliery	0
Cumnock No 1 Colliery Pty Ltd	37	Cumnock No 1 Colliery	15
Dartbrook Coal Pty Ltd Mine	4885	Dartbrook Coal	15
Drayton Coal Pty Ltd	1323	Drayton Coal Mine Colliery Holding	25
Hunter Valley Coal Corporation Pty Ltd	4460	Mt Owen Coal Mine	15
Lemington Coal Mines Ltd	1497	Lemington Coal Mine Colliery Holding	40
Liddell Coal Operations Pty Ltd	2094	Liddell Colliery Holding	55
Macquarie Generation	779	Bayswater Power Station	230
Mt Arthur Coal Company Ltd	113	Bayswater Colliery	25
Muswellbrook Coal Company Ltd	656	Muswellbrook No 2 Open Cut Coal Mine	10
Nardell Coal Corporation Pty Ltd	10337	Nardell Coal Corporation Pty Ltd	30
Ravensworth Operations Pty Ltd	10860	Ravensworth East Mine	0
Ravensworth Operations Pty Ltd	2652	Ravensworth Operations Narama Mine	100
Redbank Project Pty Ltd	11262	Redbank Power Station	35
Rix's Creek Pty Ltd	3391	Rix's Creek Colliery	25
United Collieries Pty Ltd	3141	United Colliery	10
Wambo Mining Corporation Pty Ltd	529	Wambo Mining Corporation	35
Warkworth Mining Ltd	1376	Warkworth Colliery Holding	40
New South Wales Environment Protection Authority	NA	NA	85
		Total credits	1,000

• The table shows only the initial credit holders in the scheme and credit holders may vary over time. To find out details of current credit holders, visit the online credit register.
• Although some of the participants referred to above were not initially issued with credits, they have been able to participate in trading.
• Some credits were initially kept by the EPA as a transitional mechanism. All residual credits were allocated during 2003, so all 1000 credits are held by participants.

Administrative roles

River monitoring, modelling and the river register are provided by the Services Coordinator at the NSW Office of Water.

Licensing and regulation, and the online credit register and exchange facility are provided by the Office of Environment and Heritage.

Scheme management

The Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme Operations Committee considers issues in relation to the day-to-day operation of the scheme and consists of:

• a member nominated by the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority
• four members to represent the interests of licence holders
• a member to represent the interests of irrigators
• a member to represent environmental interests
• a member from an organisation concerned with the management of a river in the catchment
• a member from the NSW Office of Water.

The cost of administering the scheme is shared equally between credit holders and discharge licence holders. People other than licensees are also able to hold credits.