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Regional Forest Agreement
Victoria
Victoria has five Regional Forest Agreements, covering more than 13 million hectares of the State.
The CAR reserve system covers about 2.86 million hectares, representing more than half the total public land across the five regions. Overall, the RFAs increased reserves by more than one third.
Victoria's timber industry had already undergone significant restructuring when the RFA process began.
The Commonwealth and Victorian governments provided a package of $42.6 million under the Commonwealth-Victorian Hardwood Timber Industry Development and Restructuring Program (VicFISAP) to help businesses take advantage of RFA certainty and adjust to changes in resource availability.
North East Victoria region
The North East Victoria Regional Forest Agreement region covers more than 2 million hectares — about one tenth of the State's total area. Its boundaries include the Murray River to the east and north, the Hume Highway to the west and the Great Dividing Range to the south.
The Commonwealth and State governments signed the RFA on 23 August 1999.
It increased the area set aside for conservation by 42 per cent to 592 000 hectares. The RFA added the upper Wongungarra catchment, a rugged and remote area with high conservation values, to the Alpine National Park.
The North East region's $20.6 million native forest industry accounted for about 8 per cent of total State sawlog production and 1.3 per cent of total State residual log production. The RFA provided a continuing supply of 68 000 cubic metres of sawlogs a year, with a potential supply increase.
North East Regional Forest Agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia & the State of Victoria 
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