From: Nikkie Verstappen [nikkie7@zonnet.nl]
Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2002 3:58 AM
To: ecita.sen@aph.gov.au

Name:N. Verstappen
Address:Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Date:11/08/2002

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.