Stock effluent facilities

Introduction

The following policy applies where an Approved Organisation has requested funding assistance for the provision, renewal or maintenance of a stock effluent disposal site.

This definition applies to the 2012-15 NLTP A National Land Transport Programme Interrelated and complementary combination of activities that, when delivered in a coordinated manner, produce synergies – can span more than one work category and more than one activity class, e.g. a programme could include a road improvement and public transport improvement activities. adopted by the NZTA under section 19 of the LTMA, as from time to time amended or varied .  For the 2015-18 NLTP please refer to the updated information on stock effluent facilities.

Policy principle

Stock effluent disposal sites are funded under the principle of exacerbator pays.

The exacerbator is the original owner of the stock who benefits from the sale of that stock for processing. There is no cost-effective method of levying this from the stock carried. Therefore, use of local rates paid to either the relevant territorial authority or the relevant regional council, or both, is considered a fair method of raising an appropriate proportion of the construction cost. The NZTA’s component is general recognition of the willingness to pay by road users for the prevention of effluent spillage.

Conditions of funding assistance

The construction cost of any stock effluent disposal facility is eligible for funding assistance under:

• Work category 321: Traffic management for construction of a facility, or under
• Work category 221: Environmental renewals for renewal of a facility, subject to:
  • the facility being part of an agreed current regional or national strategy
  • the relevant Approved Organisation agreeing to maintain the stock effluent disposal infrastructure, including disposal of any stock effluent
  • the facility being situated as close as practicable to the road
  • a formal lease, or an agreement to occupy, being signed where the stock effluent disposal facility is not part of the road reserve A legally described area within which facilities such as roads, footpaths That portion of the road reserve set aside for the use of pedestrians only. and associated features may be constructed and maintained for public travel. , giving access to the facility as though it were a road.

Maintenance of stock effluent disposal facilities (including disposal of stock effluent from the facility) is eligible for funding assistance under work category 121: environmental maintenance.

Maintenance of associated roading is eligible for funding assistance as part of the relevant Approved Organisation or NZTA (state highways) maintenance programme The total of the organisation's approved maintenance, operations and renewal activities. .

Funding assistance rate –construction

Funding assistance, regardless of the facility being sited alongside a local road or a state highway, shall be:

• 50% of the cost of the construction or renewal of the stock effluent disposal facility, plus
• 100 percent of any necessary road improvement works to enable vehicles to safely enter and exit the disposal facility.

Funding assistance rate – maintenance

The usual funding assistance rate for maintenance of the stock effluent facilities (including disposal of stock effluent from the facility) is:

• the Approved Organisation’s base rate