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I move:
That the report be noted.
As chair of the Standing Committee on Environment and Transport and City Services, I table the committee report on the draft lower Cotter catchment reserve management plan. The Minister for Environment and Heritage wrote to the committee in August 2017 forwarding the draft lower Cotter reserve management plan and the consultation report prepared by the custodian of the reserve for review under the Nature Conservation Act 2014. In the case of this draft management plan the reserve custodian is the Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate.
Section 181 of the act requires the committee to consider the draft plan and consultation report and either recommend that the minister approve the draft plan or make another recommendation about the draft plan.
This draft lower Cotter reserve management plan was the first such management plan referred to the standing committee. The committee accepted the minister’s invitation to consider the draft management plan due to its importance for management of a significant area of ACT water catchment and recreational reserve, and as an important exercise in the observance of the Assembly’s role in scrutinising decisions such as this.
The committee details in its report the review process it followed and the outcome of that review. The committee report supports the approval of the draft lower Cotter reserve management plan. As required by the Nature Conservation Act, the committee will now write to the minister confirming its recommendation.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Environment and Transport and City Services—Standing Committee
Report 4
MS ORR (Yerrabi) (5.42): I present the following report:
Environment and Transport and City Services—Standing Committee—Report 4—Management of ACT Cemeteries, dated 30 November 2017, together with a copy of the extracts of the relevant minutes of proceedings.
I move:
That the report be noted.
As chair of the Standing Committee on Environment and Transport and City Services, I table the committee report on the management of ACT cemeteries. This inquiry was self-referred by the committee and commenced in July 2017. The committee sought and received views on current and future cemetery needs and administrative requirements from stakeholders and those involved in ACT funerals, cremations and
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