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19 Dec 2025
Regulatory, policy and legislative updates
Summary of recent regulatory, policy and legislative updates. Listed with most recent update first.
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27 Nov 2024
Annual Compliance Report 2021: Snowy Hydro Limited Cloud Seeding Program
Annual review of Snowy Hydro Limited’s Cloud Seeding Program 2021
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01 Sep 2022
Protection of the Environment Operations (General) Regulation 2022
The Protection of the Environment Operations (General) Regulation 2022 came into force on 1 September 2022. It is an important part of the framework that requires industry and licensees to operate in environmentally responsible ways throughout NSW.
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01 Jul 2025
Licence application fee
The EPA has introduced a user pays fee for the assessment of an environment protection licence application and issue of any licence.
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01 Sep 2022
Changes to the regulation of extractive activities
From 1 September 2022, the definition of ‘extractive activities’ in Schedule 1 of the POEO Act has changed.
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01 Sep 2022
Frequently asked questions: Protection of the Environment Operations (General) Regulation 2022
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16 Sep 2024
Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme
The NSW Government's Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme uses market-based economic instruments for the effective protection of waterways.
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19 Dec 2022
How the Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme works
Salty water is only discharged when there is a lot of low salt, fresh water in the river. Every 2 years, a credit auction is conducted, where people can trade their salt discharge credits. People can only discharge the amount that their credits allow.