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The NSW Irrigators Council wants its members to consider the final version of the Basin Plan, before deciding whether Parliament should accept it.
The plan that was signed into law yesterday, aims to return 3,200 gigalitres to the Murray Darling River System by 2024.
The council's CEO Andrew Gregson says the document has moved a considerable distance in the last four years.
He says members now need a little time to digest its 600 pages.
"Technically the Basin Plan does not need to sign off from the states.
"It's a Federal Government document and they own it," he says.
"The key sticking point for irrigators and indeed for communities across the state, we've argued long and hard that Tony Burke should have put a cap on the volume of water to be purchased.
"He has steadfastly refused to do that and as a result has put his own Basin Plan in jeopardy.
"The NSW Government are looking at putting their own cap in, which we applaud.
"But if that cap is not there, there is a serious and real danger for NSW."
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