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Regional Policy Statement for Taranaki 212212212212
Purposes of statutory acknowledgementPurposes of statutory acknowledgementPurposes of statutory acknowledgementPurposes of statutory acknowledgement
Under section 41, and without limiting the rest of this schedule, the only purposes of this statutory
acknowledgement are—
(a) to require consent authorities, the Environment Court, or the Historic Places Trust, as the case may be, to
have regard to this statutory
preventing the introduction or establishment of new pests and by reducing the damage caused by pests and other harmful organisms introduced in the
past.
(refer section 3)
Five priorities
We will achieve the vision by implementing the following strategic priorities for action:
Pathways and exclusion Eradication Sustained control Working with others Regional leadership
Description
Undertake risk assessments, surveillance and
exclusion
preventing the introduction or establishment of new pests and by reducing the damage caused by pests and other harmful organisms introduced in the
past.
(refer section 3)
Five priorities
We will achieve the vision by implementing the following strategic priorities for action:
Pathways and exclusion Eradication Sustained control Working with others Regional leadership
Description
Undertake risk assessments, surveillance and
exclusion
compliance for 83% of the consents monitored through the Taranaki tailored monitoring
programmes, while for another 13% of the consents, a good level of environmental performance and
compliance was achieved.
In terms of overall environmental and compliance performance by the consent holder over the last several
years, this report shows that the consent holder’s performance is remained at a good or high level in the
year under review.
This report includes recommendations for the 2019-2020 …
sampling showed that the discharges were not
causing any adverse effects on the Waitara River or Mangahewa Stream.
Biomonitoring in the Mangahewa Stream found that the community health at both the
upstream and downstream sites continued to show the improving trend seen in recent years,
despite an increase in the hydrocarbon concentrations detected in the streambed sediments.
Because hydrocarbons were found in sediments at the upstream site, it is highly unlikely that
recent discharges from the
of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are
presented at the end of the report.
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1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring
The Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) primarily addresses environmental ‘effects’
which are defined as positive or adverse, temporary or permanent, past, present or
future, or cumulative. Effects may arise in relation to:
(a) the neighbourhood or the wider community around an activity, and may
description and quarry background is provided.
2. Associated resource consents are listed with basic details including key dates.
3. The monitoring programme components are summarised.
4. The company’s environmental performance and administrative compliance is evaluated, including:
a. A summary of the company’s performance, regarding the site and wider environment.
b. If necessary, any incidents, investigations or interventions that occurred during the monitoring
period.
c. A direct
oxides and the volatile organic compounds benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and
xylenes were all below levels of concern at the time of sampling. No offensive or objectionable odours were
detected beyond the boundary during inspections and there were no complaints in relation to air emissions
from the site.
During the year, the Company demonstrated an overall high level of both environmental performance and
administrative compliance with the resource consents. There was one unauthorised incident
1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring
The Resource Management Act 1991 [RMA] primarily addresses environmental
‘effects’ which are defined as positive or adverse, temporary or permanent, past,
present or future, or cumulative. Effects may arise in relation to:
(a) the neighbourhood or the wider community around an activity, and may include
cultural and social-economic effects;
(b) physical effects on the locality, including landscape, amenity and visual effects;
(c)
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If you have any questions relating to completion of this application form, please contact
l Council on telephone (06)765-7127 or email consents@trc.govt.nz
Lodge the application by signing below and sending the completed
Taranaki Regional Council, Private Bag 713, Stratford 4352.
Attention: Consents Administration Officer
(if application is emailed please do not mail a hard copy unless
requested to do so by the consents department.)
If you have not received an