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Proposed National Environmental Standard on Ecological Flows and Water Levels

1 Introduction

2 Approach to the summary of submissions

3 General submission summary

4 Submissions on the content of the proposal

Appendix A: Public notification

Appendix B: List of submitters

Appendix C: TeamView Consult summary report (PDF, 1.6 MB)

2 Approach to the summary of submissions

2.1 General approach

All submissions were summarised by general topic as well as by feedback points (individual aspects of the proposed NES). Each of these points was allocated to one of the following four positions – support, oppose, support in part (conditional support) or N/A (unknown / position not stated) – and the comments were summarised (see Appendix C). Some submitters did not state their position and preferred to comment on aspects of the wording or technical methods proposed in the NES. Where it was possible to identify conditional support this was attributed, otherwise a point was allocated to ‘N/A’. In all, 2370 feedback points were logged; a breakdown of the positions taken is shown in figures 3 and 4.

2.2 Topic analysis

The key topics identified during the analysis of submissions are presented in table 1 and discussed briefly in the following text. Key topics have been derived from the questions posed in the discussion document (sections 5 to 8) but also include general comments made about the proposed NES itself and about the process used. These key topics have been broken down into sub-topics and form a framework within which submission feedback points were analysed. (Note that not all submitters made a point in respect of each of the topics and sub-topic listed opposite.)

Table 1: Topics summary

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