Publications

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Contacts
• Letter of transmittal
• Foreword
• Glossary
• Supervising Scientist's Overview
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Environmental assessments of uranium mines in the Alligator Rivers Region
• 3 Environmental research
• 4 National Centre for Tropical Wetland Research
• 5 Participation in national and international environmental issues
• 6 Research Support and Communications
• 7 Administrative arrangements
• Appendix 1
  Ranger Environmental Requirements Explanatory Material relating to Section 19.2 Best Practicable Technology
• Appendix 2
  Implementation of Recommendations of Supervising Scientist Report 153 'Investigation of tailings water leak at Ranger uranium mine'
• Appendix 3
  Recommendations of the Independent Science Panel (ISP) of ICSU and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Final Reports

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Acknowledgments

© Commonwealth of Australia 2001

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Title page photography credits (images left to right):

Sampling airborne dust at the side of a road in the Alligator Rivers Region to check for possible radioactive contamination (photo: C Lloyd)

The black-banded rainbowfish, Melanotaenia nigrans, is used in creekside monitoring programmes (photo: G Schmida)

Involving Traditional Owners in research activities (photo: J Rovis-Hermann)

Contacts

The contact officer for queries relating to this report is:
Meryl Triggs
Office of the Supervising Scientist
Supervising Scientist Division
Environment Australia
GPO Box 461 Darwin NT 0801

Telephone 08 8981 4230
Facsimile 08 8981 4316
Email: merylt@eriss.erin.gov.au

Internet Address
The Supervising Scientist homepage address is www.ea.gov.au/ssd