Page 69 - Week 01 - Tuesday, 15 February 2011

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out to the community to support community engagement activities across government; $163,000 for repairs and maintenance of public art; and $138,000 for supporting business innovation in the ACT. The capital rollovers include the rollover of appropriations for a range of projects including public arts.

The second 16B instrument authorises a total of $4.130 million in rollovers for the Department of the Environment, Climate Change, Energy and Water comprising $2.948 million net cost of outputs; $747,000 payments on behalf of the territory; and $435,000 departmental capital injection appropriations.

These rollovers of net cost of outputs include $1.401 million for programs to assist the community to reduce their energy and water consumption and waste; $605,000 for a range of climate change projects including improvement of monitoring greenhouse gas emissions, transition to weathering the change action plan 2, and community
consultation on how proposed legislated greenhouse gas targets can be achieved; $369,000 for environment protection projects including finalising remediation works on the Civic petrol plume and a review of the Environment Protection Act 1997 and conservation legislation; and $310,000 for the finalisation of work associated with the expanded feed-in tariff and ACT solar power facility.

The rollovers for payments on behalf of the territory include $429,000 for the Office of the Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment to prepare the state of the environment report and undertake investigations of trees and Canberra nature reserves; and $318,000 to correct the inadvertent transfer of an amount between DECCEW and the Department of Territory and Municipal Services pursuant to the administrative arrangements in November 2008 when the new department was established.

The rollovers for capital injection include $417,000 for the renewable energy technology showcase work at the west Belconnen child and family centre.

The third 16B instrument authorises a net total of $22.063 million in capital injection rollovers for ACT Health. The rollovers are made up of $28.313 million underspent on capital works projects offset by $6.250 million of accelerated capital projects; $4.256 million for the continuation and completion of the e-healthy future project; $3.815 million for costs associated with the procurement and installation of a PET/CT scanner project; $3.270 million for costs associated with clinical equipment for Calvary hospital $2.646 million for the continuation and completion of digital mammography; $2.513 million for the costs associated with linear accelerator procurement and replacement; $2.359 million for the continuation of the national health and hospital network, flexible funding pool; $2.146 million for the continuation and completion of the neurosurgery operating theatre; $1.688 million for the continuation of the national health and hospital network, elective surgery; and $1.669 million for the continuation of the national health and hospital network, emergency department.

Section 17 of the act enables variations to appropriations for any increase in existing commonwealth payments by direction of the Treasurer. The Department of Treasury has received $5.288 million in additional funding from the commonwealth for the first


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