SUBMISSIONS

SUBMISSIONS BY THE FOO TASK FORCE:

• to the Environmental Management System Working Group on behalf of the Natural Resources Management Ministerial Council (NRMMC) on:
  
  "Australia's National Framework for Environmental Management Systems (EMS) in Agriculture - Parnership for sustainable agriculture"

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• to the Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership (PMCBP) on:
  
  "Proposal to encourage more individuals and/or business to consider philanthropy for the first time, or to increase the level of philanthropy"

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• to the Director, Legislation Policy Section, Approval and Wildlife Division, Department of the Environment and Heritage on:
  
  "Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999(EPBC Act) - Administrative Guidelines on Significance"

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• to the House of Representative-Standing Committee on Science and Innovation on:
  
  "Managing, coordinating and implementing the best science to combat salinity: can it be done better?"

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• to the ACT Regional Review on:
  
  "Notice of Regional Review of the Structure of Local Government in the Area Surrounding the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) - Local Government Act 1993"

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• to the Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Committee on:
  
  "Inquiry into the regulation, control and management of invasive species and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Invasive Species) Bill 2002"

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• To the Director, Legislation Policy Section, Appproval and Wildlife Division, Department of the Environment and Heritage on:
  
  *"Revised Recovery Plan Guidelines for Nationally Listed Threatened Species"
  
  * As a result of the review of the EPBC Act Administrative Guidelines on Significance July 2000, a new set of draft guidelines: Principal Significant Impact Guidelines 1.1 - Matters of National Environmental Significance,have been produced by the Department of Environment and Heritage. The Friends of Oolong submission refers to this particular section of the Act.

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• To the Deputy Director General, Environment Protection and Regulation Division, Department of Environment and Conservation
  
  BioBanking-A Biodiversity Offsets and Banking Scheme. Conserving and restoring biodiversity in NSW- Working paper. (28 February 2006)

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• To the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources
  
  Requesting his assistance in supporting further government changes to the Income Tax Assessment Act to benefit environmental organisations. (8 February 2007)
  
  This submission is supported by the Hon. Alby Schultz MP Federal Member for Hume with letter dated 14 June 2007