The New South Wales Government will provide $79.5 million from waste levy revenue to its regional Local Land Services (LLS) program over the next three years.
In a joint announcement, the NSW Environment Minister Rob Stokes and NSW Primary Industries Minister Katrina Hodgkinson said the money would be distributed across the 11 LLS regions and invested according to regional strategic plans.
Mr Stokes said the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) funding from Waste and Environment Levy was provided to LLS to deliver regionally-based natural resource management programs.
“Biodiversity conservation, threatened species management, Aboriginal cultural heritage protection and native vegetation management programs are all set to benefit from this funding,” Mr Stokes said.
“Consistent with Cabinet’s commitment this funding sees the waste levy dollars being returned to regional areas.
“This will also include pest and weed management programs that support state and regional scale investment priorities.”
LLS delivers biosecurity, agricultural and natural resource management services to landholders and rural and regional communities in NSW, following the consolidation of a number of separate organisations earlier this year.
