2015-07-20

Send the following to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

your final drought plan

your environmental assessment

your environmental monitoring plan (if you’ve done one)

The Secretary of State will pass it to the Environment Agency for review.

If your plan affects Wales, send your plan to the Welsh ministers, who will pass it to Natural Resources Wales for review. You must wait to hear back from the Secretary of State or the Welsh ministers before publishing your plan.

You may need to hold a public hearing or inquiry if there are unresolved issues with your drought plan. The Secretary of State or the Welsh ministers will decide if a hearing or inquiry is needed.

How to publish your drought plan

Before publishing your plan you must:

follow any written directions from the Secretary of State or the Welsh ministers

give yourself enough time to make final checks - this will depend on what kind of changes you need to make and whether you’ve received any written directions

You must publish the drought plan on your company website and in paper form. Send electronic copies of the plan to anyone you’ve consulted. Send paper copies if it isn’t possible to send electronic ones.

You should also:

make several paper copies available at your main office

advertise the availability of paper copies on your website

bring the drought plan to the attention of anyone else it’s likely to affect

Revise and review your drought plan

You should review your drought plan every year, whether or not there’s been a drought. You should also periodically run exercises to test your drought plan.

The Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales perform drought exercises to test their own plans and encourage others to join them. Contact them to find out more about taking part in joint drought exercises.

Contact

Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Drought Plan, c/o Water Resources Policy, Area 3D

Nobel House

17 Smith Square

London

SW1P 3JR
water.resources@defra.gsi.gov.uk

Welsh ministers

Welsh Government

5th Floor

Tŷ Hywel

Cardiff Bay

CF99 1NA
customerhelp@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Environment Agency

National Customer Contact Centre

PO Box 544

Rotherham

S60 1BY
enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk

Natural Resources Wales

c/o Customer Care Centre

Ty Cambria

29 Newport Rd

Cardiff

CF24 0TP
enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk

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