Stock Effluent Facilities Policy

This page relates to the 2024-27 National Land Transport Programme.

Introduction

This is the NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) policy on funding related to stock effluent facilities.

Date of issue: Updated September 2023 | NZTA may review and amend investment policies at any time, including in response to any changes in the Government Policy Statement on land transport.

Purpose

To outline specific rules regarding funding assistance for the construction, renewal or maintenance of a stock effluent disposal site.

Policy statement

Qualifying for National Land Transport Programme consideration

The cost of any stock effluent disposal facility is eligible for funding assistance under:

• work category 321: new traffic management facilities for construction of a facility, or construction of access roads to a facility
  Work category 321: new traffic management facilities

• work category 121: environmental maintenance, for maintenance and renewal of a facility.
  Work category 121: environmental maintenance

Funding assistance rate

The funding assistance rate (FAR) for the construction of the facility and access roads, and the maintenance of facilities is the approved organisation’s normal FAR, regardless of location. Access roads on state highways are the exception as they are funded at 100% FAR.

Normal funding assistance rates

Conditions of funding for a new facility

The construction cost of any new stock effluent disposal facility is eligible for funding assistance, subject to:

• the facility being part of an agreed current regional or national strategy
• the relevant approved organisation agreeing to maintain the stock effluent disposal infrastructure, including disposal of any stock effluent
• the facility being situated as close as practicable to the road
• a formal lease, or an agreement to occupy, being signed where the stock effluent disposal facility is not part of the road reserve, giving access to the facility as though it was a road.

Applying for funding approval

Approved organisations and NZTA (for its own activities) submit these activities using the maintenance, operations and renewals template in Transport Investment Online.

Transport Investment Online(external link)