Catchment grants to end

Press, 28 July 1989, Page 5

Catchment grants to end

The Catchment grants scheme would end on June 30, 1990, the Minuter for Environment, Mr Palmer said last evenifl Changes in local government and resource management laws attention on the need to consider how Government money could be best spent on resource management activities, ne Catchment grants are a system of subsidies for water and soil activities, such as work on rivers and soil conof regional councils >that would range of policy and

operational responsibilities for resource management meant a new approach was needed for such grants, Mr Palmer said. The Government would explore ways to ensure that money was spent effectively. The Government would continue its commitment to projects that were already approved where those projects were the highest priority of the local community, said Mr Palmer. “Where circumstancees have changed, however, and more pressing needs have arisen, we may consider converting these by agreement into the new system,"vhe said.