139Wastewater network risk management plans

1. A wastewater network operator must prepare and implement a risk management plan for the operator’s wastewater network.

2. A wastewater network risk management plan must—

3. identify any hazards that relate to the wastewater network; and
4. assess any risks that are associated with those hazards; and
5. identify how those risks will be managed, controlled, monitored, or eliminated; and
6. include any wastewater environmental performance measures, standards, or targets made by the Water Services Authority and how the measures, standards, or targets will be met.

7. The wastewater network operator must—

8. provide a draft risk management plan to the Water Services Authority within a time frame notified in the Gazette by the Water Services Authority; and
9. develop a final risk management plan that gives effect to any comments made by the Water Services Authority on the draft plan; and
10. provide a final risk management plan to the Water Services Authority within a time frame notified in the Gazette by the Water Services Authorityi.

11. The wastewater network operator must—

12. review its final risk management plan every 5 years; and
13. provide the updated plan to the Water Services Authority as soon as practicable following the review.