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Budget 2005
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• Message from the Minister and Accountability Statement  
  Environment  
• Overview and Core Business Areas  
• Resource Summary  
• Strategic Context  
• Goals, Objectives, Strategies and Results  
  Environmental
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• Overview and Core Business Areas  
• Resource Summary  
• Strategic Context  
• Goals, Objectives, Strategies and Results  
     
• Related Initiatives and Planning Processes  
• Appendix A: Significant Ministry of Environment Service Partners and Examples of Their Contributions  
• Appendix B: Legislation Administered by the Ministry of Environment  
       
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Ministry of Environment — Continued

Resource Summary

Core Business Areas 2004/05
Restated
Estimates1		 2005/06
Estimates2		 2006/07
Plan2		 2007/08
Plan2
Operating Expenses ($000)
Environmental Stewardship 61,521 66,107 65,717 65,717
Water Stewardship 6,966 21,256 65,070 65,481
Oceans 2,193 2,131 2,131 2,131
Environmental Protection 38,315 39,807 39,467 39,467
Compliance Operations 14,582 16,308 16,808 17,308
Executive and Support Services 23,109 24,476 25,257 25,317
Total 146,686 170,085 214,450 215,421
Full-time Equivalents (Direct FTEs)
Environmental Stewardship 408 433 433 433
Water Stewardship 54 85 116 116
Oceans 11 10 10 10
Environmental Protection 222 247 249 251
Compliance Operations 129 145 149 153
Executive and Support Services 117 130 139 139
Total 941 1,050 1,096 1,102
Ministry Capital Expenditures (Consolidated Revenue Fund)3 ($000)
Environmental Stewardship 18,421 24,678 56,965 16,277
Water Stewardship 194 214 106 106
Oceans — — — —
Environmental Protection 172 272 272 272
Compliance Operations — 150 150 150
Executive and Support Services 2,500 4,543 2,080 1,703
Total 21,287 29,857 59,573 18,508
1  These amounts have been restated, for comparative purposes only, to be consistent with the addition of the Compliance Operations, Water Stewardship and Oceans core business areas and the presentation of the September Update 2005 Estimates 2005/06. Schedule A, of the updated 2005/06 Estimates, presents a detailed reconciliation.
2  Water Stewardship and Executive and Support Services operating expenses and FTEs include draft figures related to the integration of Land and Water BC effective October 1, 2006. Water Stewardship capital expenditures also reflect that adjustment.
3  Environmental Stewardship capital expenditures include funding increases for the potential costs associated with the creation of parks. Capital expenditures for 2004/05, 2005/06 and 2006/07 include a funding allocation for expenditures associated with the reconstruction of the Myra Canyon trestles.

Environmental Appeal Board and Forest Appeals Commission

The Environmental Appeal Board (Board) and Forest Appeals Commission (Commission) are independent, quasi-judicial tribunals jointly administered by the same office. They hear appeals of government decisions under several provincial statutes concerned with natural resource management, environmental quality and public health protection.

As well, the Board and Commission administer the Hospital Appeal Board and Community Care and Assisted Living Appeal Board for the Ministry of Health.

While the Board and the Commission operate independently from the Ministry of Environment, their budget vote is the responsibility of the ministry. Therefore, they are not considered one of the core business areas accountable to the Minister of Environment, but they are included in the Resource Summary of this Service Plan.

Environmental Appeal Board and Forest Appeals Commission 2004/05
Restated
Estimates1		 2005/06
Estimates		 2006/07
Plan		 2007/08
Plan
Operating Expenses ($000) 1,955 1,955 1,955 1,955
Capital Expenditures (CRF) ($000) 30 15 15 15
Full-time Equivalents (FTEs) 11 11 11 11
1  These amounts have been restated, for comparative purposes only, to be consistent with Schedule A of the September Update 2005 Estimates 2005/06.
     
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