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The Environment Agency gives notice that it has submitted to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs a Scheme under Section 3 of the Land Drainage Act 1991 for the following matters:

• the abolition of the Bedfordshire and River Ivel Internal Drainage Board, the Buckingham and River Ouzel Internal Drainage Board and the Alconbury and Ellington Internal Drainage Board
• the amalgamation of the Bedfordshire and River Ivel Internal Drainage District, the Buckingham and River Ouzel Internal Drainage District, and the Alconbury and Ellington Internal Drainage District, to form a single District, and the constitution of a new Board comprising 14 elected members
• the naming of the new Board as the Upper Ouse Water Management Board
• any matters relating to or following from the abolition and constitution