Question seeks information on Cable Sands' financial offer for a Tuart Forest National Park management plan and the plan's progress. Answer reveals funding is contingent on mining approval and the plan is delayed due to prioritization.

AnsweredQoN 295Legislative Council
Asked
13 November 2002
Portfolio
the Environment and Heritage

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(1) Did Cable Sands offer financial assistance to CALM for the preparation of a management plan for the Tuart Forest National Park and areas of state forest?
(2) If yes, how much was that financial offer and when did Cable Sands give CALM the money?
(3) Has a management plan for the Tuart Forest National Park and areas of state forest been started?
(4) If not, why not?
(5) When will the management plan for the Tuart Forest National Park and areas of state forest be completed?

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Answered
12 December 2002
Responded by
Minister for Housing and Works representing the Minister for the Environment and Heritage
Response time
29 days
(2) The Environmental Review and Management Plan for the proposed mine is still under consideration and so no approval to mine has been given. Cable Sands has therefore not yet provided the $50,000 to the Department of Conservation and Land Management. (3) No. (4) The preparation of all management plans proceeds according to an annual schedule determined by a combination of priorities and resource availability. Priorities are decided by Government policy, the status of threats to natural values, pressures of use and other variable influences that might create synergies or other advantages for the prioritisation. The current listing places the Tuart Forest National Park fourth on the regional schedule, after St John's Brook, Preston-Noggerup and the Blackwood River suite of new national parks. (5) It is not possible to give a precise estimate of the time when the Tuart Forest National Park management plan might be completed as the complexities encountered when preparing any plan cannot be predicted with reliability.
(3) No. (4) The preparation of all management plans proceeds according to an annual schedule determined by a combination of priorities and resource availability. Priorities are decided by Government policy, the status of threats to natural values, pressures of use and other variable influences that might create synergies or other advantages for the prioritisation. The current listing places the Tuart Forest National Park fourth on the regional schedule, after St John's Brook, Preston-Noggerup and the Blackwood River suite of new national parks. (5) It is not possible to give a precise estimate of the time when the Tuart Forest National Park management plan might be completed as the complexities encountered when preparing any plan cannot be predicted with reliability.
(4) The preparation of all management plans proceeds according to an annual schedule determined by a combination of priorities and resource availability. Priorities are decided by Government policy, the status of threats to natural values, pressures of use and other variable influences that might create synergies or other advantages for the prioritisation. The current listing places the Tuart Forest National Park fourth on the regional schedule, after St John's Brook, Preston-Noggerup and the Blackwood River suite of new national parks. (5) It is not possible to give a precise estimate of the time when the Tuart Forest National Park management plan might be completed as the complexities encountered when preparing any plan cannot be predicted with reliability.
(5) It is not possible to give a precise estimate of the time when the Tuart Forest National Park management plan might be completed as the complexities encountered when preparing any plan cannot be predicted with reliability.

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