From: jakov novosel [j.novosel@student.unsw.edu.au] Sent: Monday, 12 August 2002 2:02 PM To: ecita.sen@aph.gov.au Subject: Jabiluka inquiry Name: Jakov Novosel Address: 65 Lincoln st Stanmore NSW 2048 Date: 12th Augst 2002 Submission to Ranger and Jabiluka Senate Inquiry I ask the Senate Inquiry to recommend: - an overhaul of the present environmental regulatory regime, to provide greater transparency and independence; - greater involvement of traditional Aboriginal owners in the establishment and oversight of any new environmental monitoring and reporting regime; - more statutory monitoring points at both operations and a greater frequency of monitoring; - event-based monitoring, whereby weather events trigger immediate response monitoring; - that the so-called 'limit' for uranium concentrations detected in Kakadu National Park downstream of the operations be reduced from 5.8 parts per billion to 0.5 parts per billion. - return unprocessed ore down the Jabiluka decline, which can be cemented in and revegitated