Update on Phase II of the Resource Management Act reforms

By way of background, phase II of the Resource Management Reform Programme focuses on the issues relating to particular sectors and the need for improved interaction between the Resource Management Act (RMA) and other statutes. It has ten related work streams. The first four streams relate to aquaculture, infrastructure, urban design and water. The reforms also seek to develop the scope, functions and structure of the proposed Environmental Protection Authority. The next four work streams involve the better alignment of the Resource Management Act processes with those of the Building, Conservation, Forests, and Historic Places Acts. The final stream involves a number of generic RMA processes that were too complex to include in Phase I of the reforms.