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SCRUTINY OF BILLS AND SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report and Statement
MRS GRASSBY: Madam Speaker, I present report No. 17 of 1994 of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation, and I ask for leave to make a brief statement.
Leave granted.
MRS GRASSBY: Report No. 17 of 1994, which I have just presented, was circulated when the Assembly was not sitting, on 17 November 1994, pursuant to the resolution of appointment of 27 March 1992. I commend the report to the Assembly.
PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Draft Variation to the Territory Plan - Gungahlin Town Centre
MR BERRY (Manager of Government Business) (8.33): Madam Speaker, I present report No. 31 of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure on the draft variation to the Territory Plan in relation to the Gungahlin Town Centre, together with a copy of extracts from the minutes of proceedings. This report was provided to the Speaker for circulation on Thursday, 24 November 1994, pursuant to the resolution of appointment. I move:
That the report be noted.
This draft variation to the Territory Plan is in relation to the Gungahlin Town Centre. This was an important matter for the committee's consideration because of its impact on the people in Gungahlin and their enthusiasm about getting development on their town centre under way. The committee heard a wide range of evidence and visited the site.
One of the issues that became apparent throughout our consideration of the matter was the protection of the striped legless lizard, Delmar impar, which is threatened with extinction nationally. The committee was advised that in June 1994 the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning had directed that the ACT Parks and Conservation Service prepare a conservation strategy for the striped legless lizard. A working party was established comprising various scientific, community and government organisations. I would like to refer to a report from that working party, which was completed in October 1994. Paragraph 10 of the committee's report quotes from that report by the working party, as follows:
... the objective for a conservation strategy for a threatened species such as Delmar impar is to maintain in the long term, viable, wild populations of D. impar as a component of the indigenous biological resources of the ACT and as a contribution to regional and national conservation of the species. The species has been found in three areas
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