sec.65What are the mitigation criteria

### sec.65 What are the mitigation criteria The mitigation criteria are that mitigation measures (under a mitigation deed or under a payment from the mitigation fund) must— aim to increase the productivity of cropping in the State; and provide a public, rather than a private, benefit; and aim to provide an enduring effect; and be quantifiable and able to be independently valued; and benefit the largest possible number of cropping agribusinesses; and if a cropping activity or cropping system existed for mitigated SCL land to which the measures relate—provide a benefit to that type of activity or system in the relevant local area. In deciding what is a relevant local area for subsection (1) (f) , regard must be had to catchments and local government areas. (sec.65-ssec.1) The mitigation criteria are that mitigation measures (under a mitigation deed or under a payment from the mitigation fund) must— aim to increase the productivity of cropping in the State; and provide a public, rather than a private, benefit; and aim to provide an enduring effect; and be quantifiable and able to be independently valued; and benefit the largest possible number of cropping agribusinesses; and if a cropping activity or cropping system existed for mitigated SCL land to which the measures relate—provide a benefit to that type of activity or system in the relevant local area. (sec.65-ssec.2) In deciding what is a relevant local area for subsection (1) (f) , regard must be had to catchments and local government areas. - (a) aim to increase the productivity of cropping in the State; and - (b) provide a public, rather than a private, benefit; and - (c) aim to provide an enduring effect; and - (d) be quantifiable and able to be independently valued; and - (e) benefit the largest possible number of cropping agribusinesses; and - (f) if a cropping activity or cropping system existed for mitigated SCL land to which the measures relate—provide a benefit to that type of activity or system in the relevant local area.