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The Great Ocean Road Coast Committee (GORCC) has the responsibility to manage coastal Crown land reserves on Victoria's Great Ocean Road from the Point Impossible east of Torquay to the Cumberland River, southwest of Lorne.
GORCC was appointed in August 2004 and formally incorporated by the Victorian Government in March 2005. GORCC is independent of Surf Coast Shire, but works in close partnership with it.
As a Crown land Committee of Management established under the Crown Land (Reserves Act) 1978, GORCC has broad powers to manage the coastal land reserved for public purposes on behalf of the Crown.
The area managed by GORCC was previously managed by five separate Foreshore Committees of Management for Torquay, Anglesea, Airey's Inlet, Fairhaven and Lorne. The main drivers for amalgamating these Committees of Management into a single committee was the delivery of improved coastal management by providing efficiency gains and more effective services.