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MURRAY REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN NO 2--RIVERINE LAND -
DICTIONARY
(Clause 6)
abbreviations of agencies:
"C&NR (Vic)" means the Victorian Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources.
"CaLM" means the NSW Department of Conservation and Land Management.
"DoP" means the NSW Department of Planning.
"DWR" means the NSW Department of Water Resources.
"EPA" means the NSW Environment Protection Authority.
"Forestry Commission" means the Forestry Commission of New South Wales.
"MDBC" means the Murray-Darling Basin Commission.
"MSB" means the NSW Maritime Services Board--Maritime Authority of NSW.
"NPWS" means the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
"NSW Agriculture" means the NSW Department of Agriculture.
"P&D (Vic)" means the Victorian Department of Planning and Development.
"PWD" means the NSW Public Works Department.
"RWC (Vic)" means the Rural Water Corporation of Victoria.
"aboriginal site" means any place containing a deposit or material evidence
(not being a handicraft made for sale) relating to indigenous and non-European
habitation of the land to which this plan applies, being habitation both prior
to and concurrent with the occupation of the area by persons of European
extraction.
"bank" means a change of slope that defines the extent of the bed of the River
Murray.
"bed" means the land which contains the River Murray, including that which is
alternately inundated or left bare from a rise or fall in the supply of water,
but does not include any land inundated only in time of flood.
"consent authority" means the Council for the local government area in which
the proposed development is to be carried out.
"development" is defined in the Act. Note : See also clause 6 (2).
The expression means, in relation to land-- (a) the erection of a building on
that land,
(b) the carrying out of a work in, on, over or under that land,
(c) the use of that land or of a building or work on that land, and
(d) the
subdivision of that land.
Land includes a bay, inlet, lagoon, lake or body of
water, a river, stream or watercourse.
"flood liable land" means land identified on the map as flood liable land.
"hazardous industry" means an industry which, when in operation and when all
measures proposed to reduce or minimise its impact on the locality have been
employed (including, for example, measures to isolate the industry from
existing or likely future development on other land in the locality), would
pose a significant risk in relation to the locality-- (a) to human health,
life or property, or
(b) to the biophysical environment.
"hazardous storage establishment" means any establishment where goods,
materials or products are stored which, when in operation and when all
measures proposed to reduce or minimise its impact on the locality have been
employed (including, for example, measures to isolate the establishment from
existing or likely future development on the other land in the locality),
would pose a significant risk in relation to the locality-- (a) to human
health, life or property, or
(b) to the biophysical environment.
"offensive industry" means an industry which, when in operation and when all
measures proposed to reduce or minimise its impact on the locality have been
employed (including, for example, measures to isolate the industry from
existing or likely future development on other land in the locality), would
emit a polluting discharge (for example, noise) in a manner which would have a
significant adverse impact in the locality or on the existing or likely future
development on other land in the locality.
"offensive storage establishment" means any establishment where goods,
materials or products are stored which, when in operation and when all
measures proposed to reduce or minimise its impact on the locality have been
employed (including, for example, measures to isolate the establishment from
existing or likely future development on other land in the locality), would
emit a polluting discharge (including, for example, noise) in a manner which
would have a significant adverse impact in the locality or on the existing or
likely future development on other land in the locality.
"potentially hazardous industry" means an industry which, if it were to
operate without employing any measures (including, for example, measures to
isolate the industry from existing or likely future development on other land
in the locality) to reduce or minimise its impact in the locality or on the
existing or likely future development on other land, would pose a significant
risk in relation to the locality-- (a) to human health, life or property, or
(b) to the biophysical environment,
and includes a hazardous industry and the
use of a hazardous storage establishment.
"potentially offensive industry" means an industry which, if it were to
operate without employing any measures (including, for example, measures to
isolate the industry from existing or likely future development on other land
in the locality) to reduce or minimise its impact in the locality or on the
existing or likely future development on other land, would emit a polluting
discharge (for example, noise) in a manner which would have a significant
adverse impact in the locality or on the existing or likely future development
on other land, and includes an offensive industry and the use of an offensive
storage establishment.
"public authority" means a public or local authority constituted by or under
any Act, a Government department or a statutory body representing the Crown,
and includes a person exercising functions on behalf of that authority,
Department or body and also includes a public or local authority constituted
under any Act of the Parliament of the Commonwealth, Victoria or South
Australia, a government department of the Commonwealth, Victoria or South
Australia, a statutory body representing the Crown in right of the
Commonwealth, Victoria or South Australia and a person exercising functions on
behalf of any such authority, department or body.
"River Management Plan" means any development control plan, plan of
management, study, strategy, guideline or the like, which has undergone a
public participation process, which is consistent with the aims, objectives
and principles of this plan and which is endorsed by the MDBC.
"the Act" means the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .
"the map" means the map marked " Murray Regional Environmental Plan No
2--Riverine Land " (consisting of an index map and sheets 1-19, 21, 23 and
25-42) deposited in the office of the Department of Planning.
"Vegetation Management Plan" means a plan which is prepared in accordance with
guidelines issued by the DoP for such plans and which is approved by CaLM.
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