{"id":779,"date":"2019-12-17T15:12:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T04:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.feeandl.com\/WaterStaging\/?page_id=779"},"modified":"2020-03-09T14:13:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T03:13:28","slug":"epa-water-industry-working-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.feeandl.com\/WaterStaging\/task-groups\/epa-water-industry-working-group\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Water Industry Working Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h3>Welcome to the EPA Water Industry Working Group<\/h3>\n<p>We work to ensure the effective implementation of EPA, VicWater and the water businesses\u2019 ongoing commitment to collaboratively address strategic shared issues impacting the sector.<\/p>\n\t<h4>EPA Water Industry Working Group Terms of Reference<\/h4>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--label-0\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--panel-0\">1. Title<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--icon-0\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--panel-0\"><i>Expand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<p>The working group will be known as the \u2018EPA Water Industry Working Group\u2019.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--label-1\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--panel-1\">2. Purpose<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--icon-1\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--panel-1\"><i>Expand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<p>To ensure the effective implementation of EPA, VicWater and the water businesses\u2019 ongoing commitment to collaboratively address strategic shared issues impacting the sector.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--label-2\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--panel-2\">3. Scope<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--icon-2\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--panel-2\"><i>Expand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<p>The EPA Water Industry Working Group will provide a forum for its members to raise and discuss any issues or concerns which relate to the Industry and the EPA, providing the opportunity to work collaboratively to address these issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Working Group will be considered the initial \u2018go to\u2019 point for the EPA and the Water Industry to raise issues, and will allow the EPA to seek early input from the Industry on EPA programs, policies and guidance.<\/p>\nIn some cases, a sub-group may be formed to discuss detailed issues on specific projects.<br \/>\nimpacting the sector.\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--label-3\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--panel-3\">4. Tasks to be Completed<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--icon-3\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--panel-3\"><i>Expand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<ul>\n<li>Identify and prioritise shared issues and produce an action plan that ensures a suitable management response to those issues can be implemented.<\/li>\n<li>Oversee implementation of the Action Plan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--label-4\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--panel-4\">5. Membership<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--icon-4\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--panel-4\"><i>Expand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\tThe EPA Water Industry Working Group will be chaired by EPA, with nominated water<br \/>\ncorporation representatives and VicWater.\nAdditional nominated representatives from within water corporations may opt to attend<br \/>\nwhen issues more relevant to their area of work are being discussed.\nIn addition, the Working Group may invite people or representatives from other relevant<br \/>\norganisation to provide expert knowledge as appropriate.\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--label-5\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--panel-5\">6. Meeting Frequency<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--icon-5\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--panel-5\"><i>Expand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<p>2-3 hour meetings will be held every quarter.<\/p>\n<p>A review of the Group\u2019s effectiveness will be undertaken 12 months from establishment.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--label-6\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--panel-6\">7. Administrative arrangements<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--icon-6\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--panel-6\"><i>Expand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<p>Meetings will be arranged by EPA, with support from VicWater.<\/p>\n<p>EPA will be responsible for minutes and will endeavour to circulate draft minutes within one week of a meeting<\/p>\n\t<h2>Need help with an EPA Water Industry Group issue?<\/h2>\n\t<h3>Contact James for assistance<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"mailto:james.cleaver@vicwater.org.au\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tEmail James Cleaver\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.feeandl.com\/WaterStaging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/VicWater-PMS296-LF-W250px.png\" alt=\"VicWater 250px\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"55\" width=\"250\" title=\"VicWater 250px\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the EPA Water Industry Working Group We work to ensure the effective implementation of EPA, VicWater and the water businesses\u2019 ongoing commitment to collaboratively address strategic shared issues&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":120,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-779","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feeandl.com\/WaterStaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feeandl.com\/WaterStaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feeandl.com\/WaterStaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feeandl.com\/WaterStaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feeandl.com\/WaterStaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.feeandl.com\/WaterStaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/www.feeandl.com\/WaterStaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/779\/revisions\/1563"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feeandl.com\/WaterStaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feeandl.com\/WaterStaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}