Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The chief executive must publish a notice when the draft resource operations plan has been prepared.
(2) Subsection (3) applies if, under section 49(7), the Minister gives the chief executive a copy of the draft water resource plan for the proposed plan area.
(3) The Minister and chief executive must liaise to ensure a notice published under subsection (1) for the proposed plan area is published together with a notice under section 49 for the proposed plan area.
(4) The notice must state the following—
(a) where copies of the draft plan, and overview report prepared under section 99A, are available for inspection and purchase;
(b) that written submissions may be made by any entity about the draft plan;
(c) a day by which submissions must be made and the person to whom, and the place where, the submissions must be made;
(d) that a notice under section 101 may be given at any time before the resource operations plan commences.
(5) The day stated under subsection (4)(c) must not be earlier than 30 business days after the day the notice is published.
(6) As soon as practicable after the notice is published, the chief executive must explain, by letter or public meetings, the implications of the notice to as many affected water entitlement holders as possible.
(7) The chief executive must send a copy of the notice and draft plan to—
(a) each local government whose local government area includes all or part of the proposed plan area; and
(b) each holder who made a proposal under section 97.
(8) A local government receiving a copy of the draft plan must make the copy available for inspection by the public.
(9) The chief executive may send a copy of the notice to any other entity the chief executive considers appropriate.