Special Investigation – SIR/32
November 2011

RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Develop guidance for decision‐makers to consider when making remediation orders, so orders are more enforceable.  
2. Improve and standardize the way in which information about compliance with orders, and the enforcement of orders, is gathered and recorded.
3. Publish information annually on the rate of compliance with orders; the number of investigations and penalty determinations made to enforce orders; and, whether the intended outcomes of orders were achieved. To encourage voluntary remediation, the legislation could be amended to enable a licensee to reach a formal agreement with government to remediate the harm caused by a contravention. The Board recommends that government.
4. Amend FRPA and the WA to enable government and licensees to cooperatively enter into formal agreements to remediate, as a way to address non‐compliance with legislation, when forest or range activities have resulted in harm to Crown resources.

Response to Recommendations