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Department of Environment and Conservation NSW Annual Report 2005-6 DEPARTMENT OF Environment and Conservation NSW ANNUAL REPORT 2005–06 VISION A healthy environment cared for and enjoyed by the whole community and sustained for future generations Contents The Hon Bob Debus 1. Overview 1 Minister for the Environment Our vision, roles, approaches and values 1 Parliament House Director General’s review 2 Macquarie Street EPA Board 4 SYDNEY NSW 2000 About DEC 5 Executive and organisational structure 8 Dear Minister Performance summary 10 Financial summary 14 It is my pleasure to forward to you for presentation to the 2. Protecting ecological and human health 15 New South Wales Parliament the third Annual Report of 2.1 A healthier and cleaner environment 16 the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC), 2.2 Improving community wellbeing 35 covering the period 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006. 3. Conserving natural and cultural values The DEC Annual Report has been prepared in accordance across the landscape 41 with the provisions of the Annual Reports (Departments) Act 3.1 Protecting and restoring biodiversity 42 1985, the Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Act 1984 and 3.2 Protecting Aboriginal cultural heritage 54 the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983. DEC consolidated 3.3 Managing and improving the reserve system 59 financial statements received an unqualified opinion from 3.4 Sustainable public use of the the Auditor General. reserve system 69 Yours sincerely 4. Sustainable consumption, production, resource use and waste management 73 4.1 Sustainability reflected in government and business decisions and operations 74 4.2 Improving resource conservation 79 5. A credible, efficient and effective organisation 83 Lisa Corbyn 5.1 One integrated DEC 84 Director General 6. Finance 93 Department of Environment and Conservation 94 Environment Protection Authority 130 Stormwater Trust 138 7. Appendices 147 1. Statement of responsibility 148 2. Performance of senior staff 148 3. Principal officers 150 4. EPA Board members’ curricula vitae 150 5. Significant statutory bodies and advisory committees 152 6. Staff statistics 158 7. Legislation and legal changes 160 8. Infringements and prosecutions 163 9. DEC-managed lands at 30 June 2006 168 10. Statement of affairs 175 11. Freedom of information applications 177 12. Information Centre and Environment Line statistics 179 13. Publications 180 14. Papers published 185 Cover photos, left to right reading downwards: 15. Overseas visits by staff 190 DEC; G Croft; DEC; V Scollen, courtesy of Chemsal; courtesy of Compliance index 192 Centre for Organic and Resource Enterprises and Peats Soil and Garden Supplies; K Stepnell, DEC; M McFadden, courtesy DEC contact details Inside back cover of Taronga Zoo; DEC; S Garland, DEC; O Rogge, DEC; S Garland, DEC. 1 1 Overview Our vision A healthy environment cared for and enjoyed by the whole community and sustained for future generations Our roles Our values • We manage natural and cultural heritage and deliver As individual staff, work teams and as a department programs to assist in conservation and environmental we seek to: protection. Protect the environment • We build knowledge, tools and policy frameworks to inform and improve decision-making by government We are strongly committed to protecting the environment. and others. Respect Aboriginal culture and heritage • We influence behaviour throughout the community to We respect Aboriginal knowledge and culture, both help protect the environment. traditional and contemporary, and encourage and support • We regulate activities to conserve Aboriginal cultural the involvement of Aboriginal people in our work. heritage and protect the environment. Act with integrity We are ethical, impartial and honest. Be transparent Our approaches We are open, accessible and accountable to the community and each other. • We influence the community’s decision-making, including economic decisions, by providing up-to-date science and Act professionally knowledge to improve the environment. We treat our colleagues, our many external partners and • We regulate activities according to the risk they pose to other members of the community with respect. We base the environment, human health or Aboriginal cultural our decisions on facts, objective standards and analysis, heritage. consistent with community values. We value our diversity of • We work with our partners in all spheres of government, ideas and skills as the basis of selecting the best approach. business and the community to develop and deliver Once a decision is made, we make a commitment to environmental and conservation solutions. delivering that decision. • We strive for excellence in our management of natural Work collaboratively and cultural heritage. We collaborate with our colleagues and our external • We motivate and support people to be environmentally partners to deliver our goals. responsible and inspire new generations to learn more about conservation and the environment. Be innovative • We contribute to public debate about solutions to We foster creative and inspirational thinking, and encourage environmental and conservation problems. learning and improvement. • We respect the special relationship Aboriginal people have with the landscape and seek to incorporate their knowledge, insights and involvement in our conservation efforts. 2 DEC Annual Report 2005–06 Director General’s review For the Department of Environment and Conservation Our rivers and wetlands are having the hardest time ever (DEC), 2005–06 has been an exciting year, with major as a result of water extraction and the drought. DEC has new environmental initiatives giving us a welcome boost progressed its wetland initiative to protect both coastal as we consolidated significant reforms and completed and inland wetlands, contributing to the $13.4 million NSW our organisational restructure. We also remained focused Wetland Recovery Package, with the good news that the on delivery. Commonwealth will now match NSW’s funding. Combined with NSW RiverBank, the package will improve our wetlands New programs and reserves and we are now linking it to a new DEC major project on Our exciting new programs range from conservation and floodplain management. This year the NSW Government natural resource management, and industry sustainability also declared five wild rivers to protect their pristine qualities partnerships, to strategies that improve the lives of for the future. Aboriginal people. We have continued to design innovative approaches and In November 2005, the Premier announced one of the use economic instruments for environment protection, in State’s largest ever programs of environmental initiatives, particular with the work being done on biodiversity banking to be led by DEC. The NSW City and Country Environment and regional conservation planning. DEC is also championing Restoration Program provides funding of $439 million a new approach to focus our recovery efforts through the over five years to programs which tackle some of our Threatened Species Priorities Action Statement. most significant environmental challenges. It demonstrates the importance of economic instruments to drive waste Delivery reduction, builds strong linkages, delivers benefits from On the waste, chemicals and pollution front, we are shifting programs across DEC and fosters partnerships with towards widening industry responsibility and accountability, many others. having signed new sustainability compacts with major We have made major additions to the western NSW companies like Hewlett Packard and Sensis. We have also national parks, resulting in positive conservation and released the updated Action for Air and the next stage of local employment benefits. The Brigalow and Nandewar the national chemical management framework. We are Community Conservation Area allows for cross-tenure seeing progress in programs to tackle historical legacies by conservation underpinned by industry development regulating the clean-up of Rhodes Peninsula and Homebush programs and strong community involvement. We are also Bay sediments, and supervising Orica’s major Botany Bay laying the foundations for bringing Yanga Station, which groundwater clean-up. We delivered the second Extended includes 150 km of Murrumbidgee River frontage and Producer Responsibility Priority Statement to reduce wastes amazing river red gums and wetlands, into the national of concern, and reviewed the 2003 Waste Strategy. We are park system. beginning to see the results of these programs through our improved waste data system. It has also been a big year for augmenting legislation, with important amendments to the Protection of the Environment Operations Act and many of its regulations. We are transferring the skills we have developed in our pollution enforcement programs to our regulation of threatened species and Aboriginal heritage. Chapter 1 – Overview 3 We have also focused on delivery in natural resource Corporate governance management (NRM). This year we have built a lasting This year we have further improved our systems and partnership with catchment management authorities and governance arrangements including launching our new the Natural Resources Commission, playing a strong role 2006–10 corporate plan, progressing toward a new DEC in developing the monitoring, evaluation and reporting award, implementing key consultation steps in our OH&S strategy for the NRM standards and targets, and in refining program and rolling out our new corporate identity package. new native vegetation tools including the PVP (property vegetation plan) developer
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