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Or answer questions within the C-RIS below.

How important is the aim of reducing the volatility of heavy vehicle charges?
Do you support the transition to the forward-looking cost base method?
Are there other issues that need to be considered when ITMM decides whether to adopt the forward-looking cost base to set heavy vehicle charges in the future?
Do you agree with the expenditure categories? If not, please outline your preferred approach.
Do the current expenditure categories allow for a fair estimate of the collective asset lives with each category?
Do you prefer using a rate of return based on the Australian Government 10-year bond rate or a blended rate in the FLCB model? What reasons is your preference based on?
Do you agree with the proposed treatment of toll roads and non-standard financing projects? If not, please outline your preferred approach.
Do you agree with the recommended approach to true-ups? If not, please outline your preferred approach.
Do you agree with the use of ABS’ Government Financial Statistics data to forecast the local government road expenditure for the FLCB model? If not, provide details of your preferred source for government road expenditure.
Do you agree with the local government road expenditure forecasting methodology? If not, outline your preferred methodology.
Do you agree with allocating local government road expenditure to FLCB asset and expenditure categories via jurisdictional category expenditure over each year of the three-year regulatory period?
Do you agree with the proposed approach regarding hybrid and electric heavy vehicles? If not, what is your preferred approach and what information should this approach be based on?
Do you agree that, if possible, year-to-year adjustments to the regulatory portion of heavy vehicle registration charges should be implemented through an automatic adjustment mechanism in the Heavy Vehicle Charges Model Law?
Do you have any comments on the sensitivity analysis?
Are there any other sensitivity analyses that should be considered?
Do you support using the sum-of-the-years digits method for depreciating the initial RAB? If not, are you aware of an alternative methodology that would provide a low value for depreciation of the initial RAB in the final year?
Do you support adopting a 20-year lifespan for the initial RAB? If not, what lifespan would you prefer, and for what reasons?
Do you agree with the proposed information publication measures and how its outputs are used to advise governments on setting heavy vehicle charges from time to time?
Is there other information that should be published?
Do you support the broad approach to communication surrounding expenditure forecasts? If not, what other approach should be considered?
Do you support any of the four options as presented? Outline the reasons for your preference.
Are there any alternative options not included in this C-RIS that should be explored? Outline why this alternative option is preferred to the ones included in this C-RIS.