TE ARAWA LAKES TRUST

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TE ARAWA LAKES TRUST
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Overview of Te Arawa Lakes Settlement Act 2006

• Apology
• Financial and Annuity Redress
• Cultural Redress

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OTHER TE ARAWA LAKES

• Already owned by Iwi/Hapu
• Lake Rotokakahi
• Lake Rotokawa
• Lake Rotokawau

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APOLOGY

• Apology and recognition of
• Breaches of the TOW and its principles
• Actions that have had a negative impact on Te
  Arawas rangatiratanga over the lakes and their
  use of lake resources
• Acknowledges the significant contribution that
  the Te Arawa Lakes have made to tourism and the
  wealth of the NZ Rotorua
• Acknowledges the spiritual, cultural, economic
  and traditional importance to Te Arawa
• Recognises the longstanding grievances of Te
  Arawa and that it has failed to deal with those
  grievances

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FINANCIAL

• 7.3 million to buy out annuity
• 2.7 million for breaches
• 400,000 capitalisation on 40 free fishing
  licences
• 7.3 million invested upon signing of AIP
• Interest available to Te Arawa
• The difference paid once DOS signed

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CULTURAL REDRESS

• Aimed at restoring Te Arawas ability to exercise
  its kaitiakitanga responsibilities in relation to
  the Lakes
• Ownership of 13 lakebeds
• - Vesting of the lakebeds in Te Arawa
• - Negotiate return of Lake Okaro
• - Propriety rights
• - Te Arawa/Crown relationship

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TE ARAWA OWNERSHIP

• Ownership

Airspace
High water mark
Water column
Lake bed
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CULTURAL REDRESS (Cont)

• Management of the Lakes
• Rotorua Lakes Strategy Group
• - Te Arawa Lakes Trust
• - Environment Bay of Plenty
• - Rotorua District Council
• Formal Protocols with the Crown
• - DOC
• - MFish
• - MfE
• - Min Arts Culture Heritage

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CULTURAL REDRESS (Cont)

• Relationship Redress
• Statutory Acknowledgements provide for
• - Crown to acknowledge Te Arawas cultural,
  spiritual, historical and traditional association
  with the Lakes
• - consent authorities to have regard to the SA
• - consent authorities to forward to Te Arawa
  summaries of resource consent applications
• - Te Arawa to cite to consent authorities, the
  Historic Places Trust and the Environment Court
  the SA as evidence of the association
• - consent authorities to attach the SA to
  statutory plans for the purpose of public
  information

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CULTURAL REDRESS (Cont)

• Relationship Redress (cont)
• Promotion of Relationships between Te Arawa and
  other organisations
• - Transit New Zealand
• - National Institute of Water and Atmospheric
  Research
• - Eastern Region Fish and Game Council
• - Bay of Plenty Conservation Board
• Te Arawa Lakes Trust to meet with these
  organisations and work with them regarding their
  roles relating to the Lakes
• Placenames restoration of over 100 significant
  traditional Te Arawa placenames
• Cultural harvests Crown will encourage relevant
  local authorities to amend their Plans to enable
  Te Arawa to take paru and indigenous plants from
  Lakes without resource consent

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CULTURAL REDRESS (Cont)

• Te Arawa Freshwater Fisheries Regulation 2006
• Provides for regulations to be drafted that will
  enable Te Arawa to
• - manage customary non-commercial fishing of
  certain species in the Lakes
• - authorise persons to take certain species for
  customary non- commercial purposes
• - draft bylaws, for approval by the Minister of
  Fisheries, restricting or prohibiting the taking
  of all or some certain species in the Lakes
• - establish a management committee
• - recommend to the Minister that commercial
  fishing be allowed for all or some of certain
  species in the Lakes

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ENGAGEMENT WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES

• Rotorua District Council
• Te Arawa Standing Committee
• Te Arawa Standing Committee Review
• Nga Matakokiri Review
• Te Whare Taonga O Te Arawa
• Iwi Consultative Group
• Lakes Structures Protocol
• Mayoral Forum
• Submissions on Plans Developments
• Conduit between RDC consultants Iwi
• Policy Planning Implementation

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ENGAGEMENT WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES

• EBOP
• Harbour Master (Lakes Closures)
• Submissions on Plans Developments
• Conduit between EBOP consultants Iwi
• Policy Planning Implementation
• Research Monitoring
• Water Quality Focus Groups

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ENGAGEMENT WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES

• WBOPDC
• Maketu Strategy Committee
• WBOPDC Maori Advisory Committee
• Drafting of Maketu Community Development Plan
• Submissions on Plans Developments
• Conduit between WBOPDC consultants Iwi
• Policy Planning Implementation
• Research Monitoring
• Water Quality Focus Groups

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RESEARCH POLICY DEVELOPMENT

• Mahinga Kai
• SWPoA
• Freshwater Management
• Bioprospecting
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Te Arawa Tau Koura
• Contaminants in Kai
• Macrophytes
• SHAMK Project
• Vermicomposting of Lake Weeds

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ENGAGEMENT WITH TE ARAWA

• Whanau Development
• Te Arawa Single Entity
• Joint Registration Project with TKOTAW TPTOTA
• Naumaiplace Website Development
• Te Pukenga Koeke O Te Arawa
• Tarawera Trail
• Te Rangatakapu
• Institute of Directors Training
• Matariki Celebration
• Charitable Status Registration
• Electoral Commission Workshop
• Puarenga Catchment