This bill speaks specifically to excluding and managing the effects of winter grazing, the application of synthetic fertilisers, sedimentation control, and the exclusion of animals and livestock from various water bodies, and, importantly, from central government planning, and gives that oversight back to respective councils who have the capacity to set localised standards. The rationale is very simple. Localised activity and, more importantly, the effects on the environment are best understood by those that undertake it and the local councils that regulate it. After all, what works in Gore doesn't necessarily work in Northland and/or Auckland. Comparatively, they couldn't be any more different from each other, both in terms of their environmental impacts, but also the types of regional activity and needed environmental protection and mitigations. They are very regionally specific. This bill will prove better for farmers, for local communities, and for their overall environment. This, given that specific regulations will be better understood and set at a local level. 