70Appointment of Operations Committee

70 Appointment of Operations Committee

70 Appointment of Operations Committee

(1) There is constituted by this Regulation a body corporate to be called the Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme Operations Committee.

(2) The Operations Committee is to consist of the following members, each of whom is to be appointed by the EPA:

(a) 1 person nominated by Local Land Services,

(b) 4 persons appointed to represent the interests of discharge licence holders,

(c) 1 person appointed to represent the interests of persons who use water from the Hunter River catchment for irrigation,

(d) 1 person appointed to represent environmental interests,

(e) 1 person who is a member of a committee or other organisation concerned in the management of the Hunter River or of any other river in the Hunter River catchment (who may be a member of the Hunter Region Local Board of Local Land Services, who is additional to the person referred to in paragraph (a)),

(f) 1 person who is employed in the Department of Industry, Skills and Regional Development.

(3) Each person appointed by the EPA as a member of the Operations Committee is to be a person who, in the opinion of the EPA, has sufficient skills and experience to be a member of the Operations Committee.

(4) If the EPA declines to appoint a person nominated as a member of the Operations Committee by a person or body as referred to in subclause (2), the EPA may invite the person or body to nominate another person as member of the Operations Committee.

(5) The member referred to in subclause (2) (a) is to be Chairperson of the Operations Committee.

(6) Schedule 2 has effect.

(7) (Repealed)

cl 70: Am 2005 (751), Sch 1 [1]–[3]; 2013 No 51, Sch 7.41 [1] [2]; 2016 (775), Sch 1 [56]–[58].