Stock effluent facilities

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This page relates to the 2018-21 National Land Transport Programme.

Introduction

The following policy applies where an approved organisation or Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency (state highways) has requested funding assistance for the construction, renewal or maintenance of a stock effluent disposal site.

Policy principle

Stock effluent disposal sites are funded under the principles that the user pays and those who benefit pay.

In this context, the user is the original owner of the stock who benefits from the sale of that stock for processing. As there is no cost-effective way of levying the user for the cost of the facility, it is considered fair to use local rates paid to either the relevant territorial authority or the relevant regional council for this purpose.

Waka Kotahi’s share is general recognition of the willingness to pay by road users for the benefits from prevention of effluent spillage. This principle applies for facilities built on both local roads and state highways.

Qualifying for National Land Transport Programme consideration

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

• work category 321: New traffic management facilities for construction of a facility, or construction of access roads to a facility
• work category 121: Environmental maintenance for maintenance and renewal of a facility.

Funding assistance rate

From 2018/19 onwards, the funding assistance rate (FAR) for the construction of the facility and access roads and the maintenance of facilities is the approved organisation’s normal FAR regardless of location. The exception is that access roads on state highways are funded at 100% FAR.

Conditions of funding for a new facility

The construction cost of any new stock effluent disposal facility is eligible for funding assistance, 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, giving access to the facility as though it was a road.

Applying for funding approval

The improvement activity module in Transport Investment Online (TIO) should be used to apply for funding assistance for the construction costs of stock effluent facilities as well as for the construction of access roads to a facility.

Maintenance of stock effluent facilities should be part of an approved maintenance programme entered into TIO through the maintenance, operations and renewals module.