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Coordinator-General | ||
| Category: | People | |
| Sub Category: | Party to an Indigenous Land Use Agreement | |
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| State/Country: | Queensland, Not specified | |
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| Subject Matter: | | Land Management | Land Planning | Management / Administration | |
| URL: | http://www.dlg.qld.gov.au/our-department/coordinator-general.html | |
| Summary Information: | ||
| According to the Queensland Government Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning, the Coordinator-General administers the State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971 (SDPWO Act), along with the relevant Minister. The Coordinator-General has broad powers to plan, deliver and coordinate large-scale infrastructure projects, while ensuring that their environmental impacts are properly managed (Queensland Government Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning). | ||
| Detailed Information: | ||
| Key functions of the Coordinator-General include (Queensland Government Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning): - undertaking or commissioning investigations, preparing plans, giving directions and taking any other measures the Coordinator-General thinks necessary or desirable to plan, build and regulate infrastructure developments. - establishing a program of works for any part of Queensland to be undertaken over a set period of time. - declaring a project to be a significant project. This means that the project requires a rigorous and comprehensive environmental impact assessment, involving whole-of-government coordination. - coordinating the environmental impact assessment of the significant projects. - declaring a project to be a prescribed project. This means that the project is one which is of significance, particularly economically and socially, to Queensland or a region. - declaring state development areas, those areas of land established to promote economic development, and overseeing development in those areas. - recommending to the Minister and Governor in Council that the Coordinator-General, a local body or another person undertake works on behalf of the Coordinator-General. - acquiring land or easements for certain works and areas. | ||
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