Stock effluent facilities

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Introduction

The following policy applies where an Approved Organisation or the 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 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 Transport Agency’s share is general recognition of the willingness to pay by road users for the benefits of prevention of effluent spillage. This principle applies regardless of the location of the facility, that is regardless of whether the facility is located on a local road or state highway.

Which work category?

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 (FAR)

The usual funding assistance rate for the 2015-18 NLTP is:

• 50% of the construction cost of a new or improved facility, regardless of whether the facility is located on a local road or state highway (the relevant local authority is required to fund 50% of the total cost as local share, regardless of the location of the facility),
• 100% of the construction costs of access roads to the facility, regardless of the location of the facility, and
• the Approved Organisation's normal FAR for maintenance and renewal of stock effluent disposal facilities, regardless of the location of the facility (including disposal of stock effluent from the facility).

From 2018/19 onwards, the FAR to apply to construction costs for stock effluent facilities will be the Approved Organisation's normal FAR, regardless of facility location. The FAR for construction of access roads will be the Approved Organisation's normal FAR for facilities located on local roads or 100% of the Transport Agency's costs for facilities located on state highways.

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, and
• 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 assistance in the 2015-18 NLTP

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 2015-18' module.