Notes for Table A1.1

General:

Amounts in this document are generally rounded to one decimal point using standard rounding conventions. Due to rounding, the aggregation of elements within this table may not match the actual ‘total.’ Amounts less than $50,000 appear as 0.0 while zero amounts, including those where the programme has finished appear as a single dash. The letters ‘na’ are used where figures are not available.

Department of Environment and Heritage (DEH) amounts in this table are divided between departmental and administered. Departmental amounts are recorded against the appropriate Divisions within DEH, for example DEH-NRMPD, whereas administered funding is recorded against DEH.

It should be noted that unless otherwise stated, figures in this table are ‘total resourcing’ and include funding for capital (equity injection) and depreciation.

To avoid double counting, DEH new measures listed in this table are listed with administered funding only, as departmental funding is included in the DEH Divisional totals (and as such, if a new measure has departmental funding only it will not appear in this table). Full programme funding amounts for all DEH new measures are shown in Table 1.3.

The Australian Government requires all its agencies to develop and implement Environmental Management Systems across their activities. Where agencies are able to discretely identify budget estimates for these activities, these figures have been included in this table.

Specific:

(a) CSIRO has changed its system of organising and reporting its environmental research. Figures reported under each theme may therefore vary from the 2005–06 EBO. At the time of printing, the CSIRO environment expenditure figure for 2006–07 was indicative only and subject to possible future variation. The CSIRO’s coasts research is not reflected in ‘Coasts and Oceans’, but is instead allocated across the remaining themes in this table.

(b) REDI is funded from within the total Commercial Ready allocation. While $100 million over seven years has been allocated for support of REDI projects, there is no specific annual breakdown. Funds are drawn as required from the Commercial Ready allocation.

(c) The funding for the Natural Heritage Trust (NHT) is appropriated to the Department of the Environment and Heritage, however programmes delivered through the NHT are jointly managed and run by DEH and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. To avoid double counting, the amounts shown in this table exclude grants made to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust.

(d) There is no direct appropriation from the Australian Government to the Director of National Parks. Funding will be appropriated directly to the Department of the Environment and Heritage and transferred to the Director of National Parks.

(e) Full budget figures for this programme are shown at Table 1.2. These figures do not include Departmental funding to avoid double counting. Funding for the Community Water Grants programme is appropriated to the Department of the Environment and Heritage however these grants are jointly administered with the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.

(f) In addition to the amounts transferred to the Director of National Parks by DEH, the Director of National Parks is expected to receive other revenue as per these figures (therefore this figure excludes funding directly appropriated to DEH and Resources Received Free Of Charge).

(g) The funding for the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality is appropriated to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, however programmes delivered through the NAP are jointly managed and run by DAFF and DEH. To avoid double counting, amounts transferred to the Department of Environment and Heritage (already included in the DEH totals in this table) are excluded from these figures.

(h) These DAFF programmes are funded by both DAFF and Natural Heritage Trust (NHT) funding. As NHT funding is appropriated to the Department of Environment and Heritage, to avoid double counting, the NHT portion (already included in this table) is excluded from these figures.

(i) Some ‘Work for the Dole’, ‘Indigenous Employment Policy’, and ‘Community Development Employment Projects’ activities can be related to the preservation and management of Australia’s environment (in particular the Green Reserve, an initiative that forms part of the Work for the Dole programme). While these programmes deliver beneficial environmental outcomes, their primary purpose is to achieve employment outcomes. As such it is difficult to identify the environment-related expenditure separately.

(j) It is important to note that Customs provides surveillance and response services for numerous Government agencies, of which the Department of the Environment and Heritage is one. The total listed is the total cost of surveillance and response services and is not the cost of these services to the Department of Environment and Heritage. The Australian Customs Service can not separate the costs of delivering environmental benefits from those benefits provided more generally.

(k) A component of this funding, appropriated directly to the Department of the Environment and Heritage, is provided to support the functions of the Australian Heritage Council.

(l) The figures provided for Defence Environmental Works for 2005–06 and 2006–07 are projected estimates only.

(m) Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics indicates that in 2002–03, local government expenditure on environmental protection and natural resource management activities absorbed 23 per cent of their total budgets. This percentage has been used to provide an indicative figure of the amount of local government expenditure on environmental protection and natural resource management activities for the financial years 2005–06 to 2009–10.

(n) Australia supports environmental health activities, undertaken through the WHO’s Health and Environment Programme, through its annual contribution to the WHO. The amount of Australia’s contribution to the WHO directed to environment-related activities is unable to be discretely identified.

(o) Environmental activity undertaken by the National Industrial Chemical Notification and Assessment Scheme is cost recovered from industry charges.

(p) Estimated expenditure on environmental activities undertaken by the Bureau. This is approximately four per cent of the total Bureau expenditure.

(q) Estimated expenditure includes existing funding as well as new resourcing provided in 2005–06 for the Murray-Darling Basin Commission additional funding measure to be expensed over 2006–07 to 2010–11 on a fiscal basis.

(r) Resourcing figures relating to the Illegal Foreign Fishers package are provided on a fiscal basis.