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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 77
Environmental protection policy must set objectives for reduced contaminant loads
(1) This section applies in relation to the entry of the following
contaminants to the water of the Great Barrier Reef because of human activity
carried out on land in the Great Barrier Reef catchment— (a) dissolved
inorganic nitrogen in the water;
(b) sediment suspended in the water.
(2)
The Minister must ensure an environmental protection policy sets an objective
to reduce the load of each of the contaminants entering the waters from each
river basin in the catchment.
(3) The objective must be to reduce each of the
loads to a stated limit, over a stated period, that is consistent with
achieving the improvement in the quality of the water entering the Great
Barrier Reef stated in the purpose of this chapter.
(4) This section does not
limit the matters relating to the quality of the water entering the Great
Barrier Reef that may be dealt with in an environmental protection policy.
(5) In this section—
"load" , of a contaminant that enters water, means the total mass of the
contaminant that enters the water in a year.
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