The Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities is an agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) and therefore is required to comply with the Information Publication Scheme (IPS) established pursuant to Part 2 of the
FOI Act.
The IPS requires Australian Government agencies which are subject to the FOI Act to publish a range of information on their websites. This includes agency structure, functions, appointments, annual reports, consultation arrangements, details of the agency's FOI officer and the agency's operational information.
Under subsection 8A(1) of the FOI Act (as in force from 1 May 2011), the ‘operational information’ of an agency is:
... information held by the agency to assist the agency to perform or exercise the agency’s functions or powers in making decisions or recommendations affecting members of the public (or any particular person or entity, or class of persons or entities).
Such information can include documents which:
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 are available to agency officers to assist them make decisions or recommendations under legislation or schemes that the agency administers; contain decisions or recommendations which concern a right, privilege or benefit of a member of the public, or an obligation, penalty or detriment to which a person may be subject;
 are in the nature of a manual, or contains an interpretation, rule, guideline, practice or precedent, including a letter of advice; the particulars of a scheme administered by the agency; a statement as to how legislation or a scheme will be administered or enforced; or a procedure followed by the agency in investigating breaches or evasions of legislation and schemes.
Australian Marine Mammal Centre Grants Scheme Guidelines
Bill Dawbin Postdoctoral Fellowship Guidelines
Indo-Pacific Cetacean Research and Conservation Fund Guidelines
Guidelines for participation in the Australian Antarctic Science Program

Australian Antarctic Science Strategic Plan 2011-12 to 2020-21
Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship
Environmental Impact Assessment Guidelines
Environmental Officer Handbook
Media program
Australian Antarctic Data Centre Database
Jobs supporting Australia’s Antarctic program
The review of Caring for our Country - Australia’s natural resource management investment initiative - Discussion Paper
Summary of 2010 stakeholder consultative forum
Caring for our Country review: the story so far. Consultation summary report
Report on the Review of the Caring for our Country Initiative
An Outline for the Future 2013 - 2018
MOU in relation to water for the environment
MOU with NSW
MOU with QLD
Framework for Determining Commonwealth Environmental Water Use
Commonwealth Environmental Water - Monitoring Evaluation Reporting &
Improvement Framework
Discussion Paper- Trading of Commonwealth Environmental Water
Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Business Plan
Criteria for assessing options for Commonwealth environmental water use
Criteria for assessing 2011-12 watering actions
Monitoring report on ecosystem responses 1
Monitoring report on ecosystem responses 2
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Monitoring reports on ecosystem responses
Technical Report: Environmental water delivery: Namoi River
Technical Report: Environmental water delivery: Gunbower Forest
Technical Report: Environmental water delivery: Murrumbidgee Valley
Technical Report: Environmental water delivery: River Murray – Coorong,
Lower Lakes and main channel below Lock 1
Technical Report: Environmental water delivery: Lachlan River
Technical Report: Environmental water delivery: Lower Goulburn River
Technical Report: Environmental water delivery: Campaspe River
Technical Report: Environmental water delivery: Koondrook-Perricoota
Forest
Technical Report: Environmental water delivery: Loddon River
Technical Report: Environmental water delivery: Edward Wakool system
Technical Report: Environmental water delivery: Yarrawonga to Tocumwal and Barmah-Millewa
Technical Report: Environmental water delivery: Lower Broken Creek
Guidance Note 1 - Listings made after a section 75 'Controlled Action' decision: Section 158A of the EPBC Act - February 2012
Guidance Note 2 - Expiry Dates for Approvals
Guidance Note 3 - Definition of 'action': Section 523, section 524, and section 524A of the EPBC Act - February 2012
Guidance Note 4 - Reconsideration: Implementing the requirements of sections 78, 78A, 78B and 78C of the EPBC Act - April 2012
Guidance Note 5 - 'Indirect consequences' of an action: Section 527E of the EPBC Act - April 2012
Guidance Note 6 - Change of person proposing to take an action; Change of proponent; Transfer of approvals: subsection 78(5) and sections 145B and 156F of the EPBC Act - April 2012
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Guidance Note 7 - Definition of 'Environment' under section 528 of the
EPBC Act - April 2012
Guidance Note 8 - EPBC Act Delegations - April 2012
Guidance Note 11 - Prior Authorisation and Continuing Use Exemptions:
Sections 43A and 43B of the EPBC Act - May 2012
Guidance Note 12 - Staged Developments - Split referrals: Section 74A of the EPBC Act - May 2012
Applicants Guide to the Section 13 Approval Process - November 2008
Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000 Compliance and Enforcement Framework
Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000 Compliance and Enforcement Strategy
Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act
Compliance and Enforcement Framework
Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act
Compliance and Enforcement Strategy
Post graduate top up scholarship for research in Ozone science
National Waste Policy: Less waste, more resources
How to register WELS products
Help pages in the WELS registration database Public/Secure
Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Compliance and Enforcement
Framework
Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Compliance and Enforcement
Strategy
Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Compliance Risk Management
Framework
WELS Inspectors' Protocol
FluoroCycle Guidelines
Information Paper No 3 Australian Guide to Exporting and Importing
Hazardous Waste: Applying for a Permit
Applying for a permit - Frequently asked questions
Hazardous Waste Act permits
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Declaration extending the meaning of hazardous waste - Classification under foreign laws: Thailand
Evidentiary certificate on electronic equipment under warranty
Evidentiary certificate on zinc ash
Evidentiary certificate on zinc scrap
Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989
Public guidance on bank guarantees
Public guidance on contracts under the Hazardous Waste Act
Public guidance on appropriate insurance
What is hazardous waste?
International hazardous waste conventions
Hazardous Waste Technical Group
Flowchart of the process for applications to amend the live import list to include animals
Guidelines for preparing your assessment report to amend the Live Import
List and assessing the impact of live animal imports (PDF
– 186KB)
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(Word – 187 KB)
Guidelines for preparing an assessment report to amend the Live Import
List and assessing the impact of live animal imports of native species/specimens (PDF
– 331 KB)
| (Word
– 85 KB)
Exotic bird record keeping scheme
Wildlife Import and export permit information and forms
Notice to exporters of wildlife products – Permits are not transferable
Notice to exporters of native non –CITES coral specimens (WTR2011/2)
Notice to exporters of CITES-listed corals WTR2011/3 (revised 9 August
2012)
Important notice on changes to permit process
Travelling with plants and animals (including products) as personal effects into or out of Australia
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Household Pets
Commercial Import programs
Bringing po chai or chi kit into Australia
Bringing shark products into Australia
How to export kangaroo products
How to export or import butterfly specimens
How to export or import caviar
How to export or import crocodilian (crocodile, alligator, caiman and gavial) products
How to export or import elephant products
How to export or import hoodia products
How to export or import hunting trophies
How to export or import orchid specimens
How to export or import pre-CITES products
How to export or import wildlife or wildlife products
International wildlife trade - complying with permits
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild
Fauna and Flora (CITES)
Wildlife trade across the border between Papua New Guinea and Australia
– what is ok?
Wildlife trade - information for customs brokers and freight forwarders
Guidelines for nominating and assessing threatened ecological communities
Recovery Plan Decision Support Tool
Recovery Plan compliance checklist for legislative and process requirements
Habitat Critical to Survival checklist
Key elements in assessing content of a threatened species/ecological community recovery plan
Recovery Plan review template (various versions in draft)
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Guidelines for the preparation of a Recovery Plan (new version currently in draft)
Flying Foxes and National Environmental Law
Guidelines for Assessing the Conservation Status of Native Species
Guidelines for assessing key threatening processes nominations
Interim koala referral advice for proponents
Referral guidelines for the vulnerable black-eyed susan, Tetratheca juncea
Draft referral guidelines for the wallum sedge frog, Litoria olongburensis
Referral guidelines for the vulnerable striped legless lizard, Delma impar
Draft referral guidelines for four threatened Tasmanian burrowing crayfish
Draft referral guidelines for three species of Western Australian black cockatoos
Draft referral guidelines for the endangered southern brown bandicoot
(eastern), Isoodon abesulus obesulus
Draft referral guidelines for the nationally listed Brigalow Belt reptiles
Referral guidelines for the northern quoll, Dasyurus hallucatus
Significant impact guidelines for the vulnerable growling grass frog (Litoria raniformis)
Significant impact guidelines for the endangered southern cassowary
(Casuarius casuarius johnsonnii) Wet Tropics population
Significant impact guidelines for the vulnerable green and golden bell frog
(Litoria aurea)
Significant impact guidelines for the vulnerable western ringtail possum
(Pseudocheirus occidentalis) in the southern Swan Coastal Plain, WA
Significant impact guidelines for the critically endangered spiny rice-flower
(Pimelea spinescens subsp. spinescens
Significant impact guidelines for the critically endangered golden sun moth
(Synemon plana)
Significant impact guidelines for the endangered black-throated finch
(southern) (Poephila cincta cincta)
Draft significant impact guidelines for the vulnerable water mouse Xeromys myoides
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Draft impact guidelines for 36 migratory shorebird species
Significant impact guidelines for the endangered spot-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus maculatus (southeastern mainland population) and the use of
1080
EPBC Act Policy statement - Tasmanian devil
EPBC Act policy statement - Grey-headed flying fox
Tiger Quoll (southeastern mainland population) and the use of 1080
EPBC Act policy statement - Spectacled flying-fox
Survey Guidelines for Australia's Threatened Bats
Survey Guidelines for Australia's Threatened Birds
Survey Guidelines for Australia's Threatened Frogs
Survey Guidelines for Australia's Threatened Fish
Survey Guidelines for Australia's Threatened mammals
Survey Guidelines for Australia's Threatened reptiles
EPBC Act Policy Statement - White box - yellow box - Blakely's red gum grassy woodlands and derived native grasslands
EPBC Act Policy Statement - Peppermint box (Eucalyptus odorata) grassy woodland of South Australia and iron-grass natural temperate grassland of
South Australia
EPBC Act Policy Statement - Littoral rainforest and coastal vine thickets of eastern Australia
EPBC Act Policy Statement - Alpine sphagnum bogs and associated fens
EPBC Act policy statement - Weeping Myall Woodlands
EPBC Act Policy Statement - Lowland native grasslands of Tasmania
EPBC Act Policy Statement - Gippsland Red Gum Grassy Woodland and
Associated Native Grassland
EPBC Act Policy Statement - Cumberland Plain Shale Woodlands and
Shale-Gravel Transition Forest
Nationally Threatened Ecological Communities of the Victorian Volcanic
Plain: Natural Temperate Grassland & Grassy Eucalypt Woodland
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Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla dominant and co-dominant) information sheet
Farming and nationally protected lowland native grasslands of Tasmania
Farming and nationally protected grasslands and woodlands of the
Victorian volcanic plain
Farming and nationally protected Grey Box woodlands and grasslands
Farming and nationally protected Coolibah - Black Box Woodlands
Farming and nationally protected New England Peppermint (Eucalyptus nova-anglica) Grassy Woodlands
Farming and protecting the critically endangered Peppermint Box Grassy
Woodland
Farming and protecting the critically endangered Iron-grass Natural
Temperate Grassland
Arnhem Plateau Sandstone Heath ecological community Fact sheet
Lowland Rainforest and Landholders
Assistance to Local Government Authorities for Regional Sustainability
Planning
Guidelines for the assessment of places for the NHL
National Heritage List criteria
Commonwealth Heritage List criteria
Identifying Commonwealth Heritage Values and Establishing a Heritage
Register
National Heritage List (NHL): Finalised Priority Assessment Lists
Commonwealth Heritage List (CHL): Finalised Priority Assessment Lists
Australian Heritage Council Periodic Report: 2004-2007
Australian Heritage Council Periodic Report: 2007-2010
Identifying Commonwealth Heritage Values and Establishing a Heritage
Register
Standard Commonwealth Heritage List listing process
Standard National Heritage List listing process
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Australian Government Support Plan for the Coral Triangle Initiative on
Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security
Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme (ABBBS) Procedures Manual
IIESC Advice
IIESC Meeting Agendas
IIESC Meeting Minutes
IIESC Meeting Communiqué
IIESC Terms of Reference
National Partnership Agreement on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal
Mining Development
Audit Committee Membership
Client Service Charter
Memorandum of Understanding with Department of Human Services for access to print and related service panels and multiuser lists
Sponsorships Policy
Publications management Guidelines
Register of Environmental Organisations Guidelines
Register of Environmental Organisations Form
Communication and media policy
Caring for our Country Sponsorship Policy
Caring for our Country Logo Guidelines
Caring for our Country Recognition Guidelines
Caring for our Country Communication Requirements
Suburban Jobs Program Guidelines
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Average prices of offers pursued from recent tenders
Questions and answers - Average prices paid in the southern Basin
Market price information for Murray-Darling Basin Water Entitlements
Progress of water recovery under the Restoring the Balance in the Murray-
Darling Basin program
Memorandum of Understanding with NSW on water trade
Due Diligence Recommendation Minute template (PDF – 92 KB) | (Word –
291 KB)
Template - Email Conflict of Interest (PDF – 16 KB) | (Word – 24 KB)
Template – Email – Instructions for RFA to Proceed Due Diligence (PDF –
52 KB) | (Word – 31 KB)
Template - Email – Instructions to issue Contract (PDF – 17 KB) | (Word –
25 KB)
Template – Email – Signed SAS to LSP (PDF – 16 KB) | (Word – 23 KB)
Attachment A Cover Letter to Initiate Matter template (PDF – 17 KB) |
(Word – 25 KB)
Attachment C Due Diligence Report Cover Letter template (PDF
– 17 KB)
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(Word – 24 KB)
Attachment D Due Diligence Report template (PDF – 32 KB) | (Word – 71
KB)
Attachment E Counterpart Contracts Cover Letter template (PDF – 21 KB)
| (Word – 26 KB)
Attachment F Exchanged Contract Cover Letter template (PDF – 24 KB) |
(Word – 14 KB)
Attachment G Trade Approval Cover Letter template (PDF – 9 KB) | (Word
– 25 KB)
Attachment H Trade Rejection Cover Letter template (PDF
– 14 KB)
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(Word – 26 KB)
Attachment I Settlement Adjustment Sheet Cover Letter template (PDF –
14 KB) | (Word – 25 KB)
Attachment J Settlement Adjustment Sheet template (PDF – 15 KB) |
(Excel – 23 KB)
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Attachment K Settlement Cover Letter template (PDF
– 9 KB)
| (Word
– 30
KB)
Attachment L Registration Cover Letter template (PDF – 16 KB) | (Word –
32 KB)
Attachment M Individual Matter invoice template (PDF – 29 KB) | (Word –
51 KB)
Water Recovery from Water for the Future initiative (PDF - 23 KB) |
(XLSX
– 420 KB)
Strategic Sub-system Reconfiguration in the Murray-Darling Basin - Round
One guidelines (PDF - 1139 KB) | (Word - 303 KB)
Strategic Sub-System Reconfiguration in the Murray-Darling Basin -
Round One, Stage One Application Form
Strategic Sub-System Reconfiguration in the Murray-Darling Basin -
Sample Funding Agreement
Strategic Sub-System Reconfiguration in the Murray-Darling Basin -
Sample Water Sale Contract
Strategic Sub-System Reconfiguration in the Murray-Darling Basin -
Frequently Asked Questions
Strategic Sub-System Reconfiguration in the Murray-Darling Basin -
Application and Decision Process Flow Chart
National Urban Water Desalination Plan Fact Sheet
On Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program Round three in-principle funding documents
Round 3 On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program: Funding Guidelines (PDF
– 1.4MB) | (Word - 51 KB)
Round 3 On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency Frequently asked Questions (PDF
– 262 KB) | (Word – 138 KB)
Draft Funding Agreement for the On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program
(PDF - 1,246 KB) | (Word - 184 KB)
Water Entitlement Transfer Information (PDF - 83 KB ) | (Word - 48 KB)
Deed of Transfer of Water Entitlements for New South Wales (PDF - 234
KB) | (Word - 329 KB)
Deed of Transfer of Water Entitlements for South Australia Central
Irrigation Trust (PDF - 239 KB) | (Word - 347 KB)
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Deed of Transfer of Water Entitlements for South Australia Renmark
Irrigation Trust (PDF - 238 KB) | (Word - 344 KB)
Draft Deeds of Transfer of Water Entitlements for Victoria (PDF 237 KB) |
(Word – 340 KB)
On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program Round three, Stage two SmartForm
Questions and Answers (PDF – 759 KB) | (Word – 535 KB)
On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program Round three – Guide to completing the application form (PDF
– 226 KB)
| (Word
– 177 KB)
On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program Round three – Delivery Partner
Application Form (PDF – 261 KB) | (Word – 157 KB)
On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program Round three
– Fact sheet (PDF –
278 KB) | (Word – 146 KB)
Lake Eyre Basin Community Advisory Committee Operating Protocol (PDF
– 66 KB) | (Word – 100 KB)
Lake Eyre Basin Scientific Advisory Panel Operating Protocol (PDF – 59
KB) | (Word – 76 KB)
Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee Operating Arrangements
(PDF – 57 KB) | (Word – 97 KB)
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