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Part I
Subject
Country Parks (ENV 30/15/01)
Purpose
(a) To define the location
and boundaries of country parks and special areas.
Progress Made & Present Position
(a) The first three country parks
at Shing Mun, Lion Rock and Kan Shan together with the first Special Area at Tai Po Kau were designated in June. Further two country parks at Aberdeen and Tai Tan on Hong Kong Island were designated at the end of October. Addition-- al country parks at Sai Kung East and Sai Kung West in the New Territories are being processed for designation. Preliminary work on the
boundaries of country parks at Plover Cove and on Lantau
Island are also in hand.
(b) To administer and control (b)(i)
country parks and special
areas.
Next Quarter Targets
(a) Designate Sai
Kung country parks by November and Plover Cove country park by January.
AFD has prepared a 4-year | (b) Monitor imple-
programme for the
implementation of country parks staffing.
(ii) An Assistant Director to
head up the Country Parks Division in AFD was appointed at the beginning of September.
mentation of the AFD country pails staffing programme liaising with Finance and Civil Service Branches to ensure provision of the necessary funds and staffing
resources.
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