The Bega Valley Shire Council is to receive $7.2million from the state government to assist in continuing cleanup work following the 2019-20 bushfires.
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Deputy Premier Paul Toole announced more than $33m was being committed to assist 15 councils collect, manage and recycle thousands of tonnes of green waste and burnt fencing as part of the NSW government's bushfire recovery assistance.
BVSC Recovery, Rebuilding and Resilience project lead Chris Horsburgh said the grant of $7,217,630 will be used to fund council's Bushfire Generated Green Waste Program.
"This is a shire-wide program that will safely remove bushfire affected trees that pose a risk to the public, and bushfire affected green waste generated and stockpiled during or shortly after the bushfires, from council managed roadsides and public areas," Mr Horsburgh said.
"Council is awaiting the funding deed for further information about specifics and completion timeframes."
Mr Horsburgh said this funding was through just one of a number of EPA bushfire clean-up funding streams to which council had applied.
"Council has continued to remove bushfire affected green waste within our usual operations, however this grant will allow a more targeted and focused program of works."
Neighbouring Eurobodalla was also set to receive just under $3million for its bushfire green waste cleanup as well as an additional $550,000 for a FenceCycle Program.
Environment Minister Matt Kean said the FenceCycle Program helped the bushfire recovery process by removing burnt fencing waste from private land and enabling land to be returned to productive uses.
"FenceCycle takes an innovative approach to addressing the bushfire fence waste problem, by not only supporting the clean-up, but also incentivising the recycling and reuse of burnt fencing material," Mr Kean said.