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DECC Annual Report 2008-2009: Appendices Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW, 2008-2009 Annual Report, pages 177-246. Appendices In this chapter 1. Statement of responsibility 178 2. Performance of senior staff 178 3. Principal officers 181 4. EPA Board members’ curricula vitae 182 5. Significant statutory bodies and advisory committees 184 6. Staff statistics 196 7. Legislation and legal changes 198 8. Infringements and prosecutions 199 9. DECC-managed lands and waters 206 10. Statement of affairs 215 11. Freedom of information applications 218 12. Information Centre and Environment Line statistics 222 13. Publications 224 14. Papers published and presented 228 15. Overseas visits by staff 239 16. Consultancies 241 17. Grants to community organisations 242 18. Major works 244 19. Major assets 245 1. Statement of responsibility As Director General, I have worked with other Executive members, principal officers and managers who are responsible for particular internal control processes to provide reasonable assurance that DECC is achieving its objectives and using its resources efficiently. These processes include: • reporting to me and the Executive on aspects of organisational performance • controlling how expenditure and staff resources are managed • contracting out various independent external assessments of aspects of our work • managing a program of internal audits that focuses on operational and financial risk. I participate in an independently chaired statutory audit and compliance committee established under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 that reports to the Minister, and am on the Internal Audit Committee which has an independent chair and members. Details of internal audits and external assessments are provided in chapter 5. To the best of my knowledge, all these control processes have operated satisfactorily during the reporting year. LISA CORBYN Director General 2. Performance of senior staff Chief Executive Name: Ms Lisa Corbyn Position Title: Director General Period: 1 July 2008–30 June 2009 SES Level: SES 8 Remuneration: $394,700 During the year, Ms Corbyn provided strong leadership, sound management and corporate team building to: • bed down the previous major agency restructure and prepare for the future super agency • deliver on priority environmental, climate change and natural resource programs including those identified in the State Plan which include targets for clean air, greenhouse gas reduction, natural resource management, building Aboriginal community wellbeing and increasing visitation to national parks. Throughout the year Ms Corbyn led DECC’s Executive to progress challenging policy and legislative reforms, and implement a broad range of environmental, conservation and natural resource management programs. Ms Corbyn is active in whole-of-government and national processes including chairing the Climate Change and Natural Resource Management and Environment Chief Executive Officer clusters, and participating in the Chief Executives Committee and on Standing Committees for national Ministerial Councils in NRM and Environment Protection and Heritage. She is also a member of the Marine Parks Authority. In June 2009, Ms Corbyn was identified as one of the new 13 NSW super agency CEOs. Results: • Delivered key climate change and sustainability programs including leading the statewide input on the national Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and statewide consultation on the development of the NSW Climate Change Action Plan; chairing the Climate Change Science Network of eminent NSW scientists developing a Climate Change Research partnership; and progressing the NSW Government’s Sustainability Policy and the NSW $150 million Energy Efficiency Strategy, including legislation enabling the Energy Savings Scheme. • Coordinated whole-of-government strategies including a new draft Action for Air – the Government’s 25 year air quality management plan, the natural resource management Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Strategy, the draft 13 state of the catchment reports, and nature-based tourism programs so people could have a broader range of visitor experiences in national parks. • Delivered major regulatory and policy approaches including achieving red tape reductions, consulting on marine parks zoning plans and regulations, implementing new legislation on contaminated land management, and implementing regulations on licensing industry and waste levies. • Implemented new strategies to protect native vegetation including a new native vegetation compliance approach and new vegetation report cards, and progressed BioBanking. • Supported ongoing work with Aboriginal communities including programs for new co-management arrangements and partnerships, rolling out DECC’s cultural awareness training, increasing DECC’s Aboriginal employment and supporting Two Ways Together, especially through the community wellbeing program. • Worked collaboratively with catchment management authorities to progress natural resource management programs and reposition efforts in the context of the Commonwealth’s new Caring for Our Country funding approach, and to improve corporate governance frameworks. • Progressed environmental water recovery targets in the third year of NSW Riverbank, delivered on the NSW component of The Living Murray, developed a whole-of-government framework for environmental water management in NSW and signed a memorandum of understanding with the Commonwealth environmental water holder on the cooperative use of environmental water holdings for the benefit of priority wetlands in NSW. • Added major new areas to the protected area system including in Western Sydney (Cranebrook) and in Western NSW (Toorale), continued the roll out of a new asset maintenance approach, pursued strategic fire management including significantly increasing hazard reduction programs in parks and delivered ongoing pest and weed programs for national parks. • Delivered on the major agency restructure, continued to achieve achieved significant corporate servicing benchmarks, improved on DECC’s progress on occupational health and safety targets, and fostered strong financial management throughout DECC. Senior Executive Officers Name: Mr Simon A Y Smith Position Title: Deputy Director General, Climate Change, Policy and Programs Group Period: 1 July 2008–30 June 2009 SES Level: SES 7 Remuneration: $357,300 The Director General has expressed satisfaction with Mr Smith’s performance throughout 2008–09. Mr Smith has achieved the performance criteria in his performance agreement. He has been a strong leader, driving implementation of reforms using innovative approaches to meet Government priorities and community expectations. Results • Led climate change policy initiatives including orchestrating the regionally based consultation for the development of the Climate Change Action Plan; co-organising the Green Jobs summit conference and green skills task force, and being appointed as DECC’s ‘go to’ person; developed NSW submissions to national efforts such as energy efficiency and renewable energy. Also developed and is delivering the multi-pronged $150 million Energy Efficiency Strategy and the separate legislation on the innovative Energy Savings Scheme. • Successfully overhauled and managed the Government’s $300 million Climate Change Fund, including grants and rebates for householders, businesses and local councils. • Continued the successful acquisition of water for inland NSW, with water entitlement holdings by 30 June 2009 totalling 89,996 megalitres of entitlement across the Gwydir, Macquarie, Lachlan, and Murrumbidgee valleys, and initiated the review of the Government’s coastal and floodplain program. • Supported the continued development of the Government’s reforms of conservation legislation, policies and programs. These included implementation of the BioBanking Scheme, and regulation of forestry activities in native forests conducted by the private sector, including the policy framework for a structural adjustment program. • Guided the strategic planning for the next phase of the Environmental Trust programs, the initiation of new waste and environment levies and the Sustainability Program which included significant progress in leading DECC’s programs to reduce DECC’s ecological footprint. Name: Ms Sally Barnes Position title: Deputy Director General, Parks and Wildlife Group Period: 1 July 2008–30 June 2009 SES level: 6 Remuneration: $292,050 The Director General has expressed satisfaction with Ms Barnes’ performance during the period in which she led Parks and Wildlife Group in 2008–09. Ms Barnes has achieved the performance criteria in her performance agreement. As Head of the National Parks and Wildlife Service in DECC, she has demonstrated a strong commitment to building the protected area system and managing the reserve system to an excellent standard. Results • Acquired significant additions to the reserve system in western NSW with the purchase of Toorale Station near Bourke, Booligal Station on the Lachlan River near Hay and Pillicawarrina in the Macquarie Marshes. The network of conservation reserves in western Sydney was also extended through the purchase of the former Air Services Australia property at Cranebrook. • Represented DECC on the Taskforce on Tourism in National Parks in NSW whose recommendations were to maintain the protection of natural and cultural values in NSW parks while proposing ways of developing the nature tourism industry in NSW to make it more competitive with other destinations in Australia. • Provided assistance
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