223Allocation of natural resources

1. Every regional council has responsibility for allocating any of the following, as it considers appropriate:

2. the taking, diverting, or use of freshwater, geothermal water, or coastal water:
3. the taking or use of heat or energy from water:
4. the taking or use of heat or energy from the material surrounding geothermal water:
5. the capacity of air or water to assimilate a discharge of a contaminant:
6. the occupation of space in the common marine and coastal area:
7. the extraction of natural materials such as sand, shell, and shingle from—
   1. river or lakebeds that are land of the Crown; and
   2. the common marine and coastal area.