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• Foreword and Contents (PDF - 423 KB)
• Supervising Scientist's Overview (PDF - 79 KB)
• Section 1: Introduction (PDF - 865 KB)
• Section 2: Environmental Assessments of Uranium Mines (PDF - 1550 KB)
• Section 3: Environmental Research and Monitoring (PDF - 1870 KB)
• Section 4: Statutory Committees (PDF - 682 KB)
• Section 5: National Centre for Tropical Wetland Research (PDF - 198 KB)
• Section 6: Communication Liaison (PDF - 195 KB)
• Section 7: Administrative Arrangements (PDF - 347 KB)
• Appendicies 1 and 2 (PDF - 367 KB)
• List of Abbreviations (PDF - 168 KB)
• Index (PDF - 111 KB)

Contents

• Letter of Transmittal
• Foreword
• Supervising Scientist's Overview
• Abbreviations
• 1 - Introduction
  • 1.1 Role and Functions of the Supervising Scientist
  • 1.2 Performance Summary
  • 1.3 The Alligator Rivers Region and its Uranium Deposits
  • 1.4 Senate Inquiry into the Environmental Regulation of Uranium Mining
• 2 - Environmental Assessments of Uranium Mines
  • 2.1 Supervision Processes
  • 2.2 Ranger
  • 2.3 Jabiluka
  • 2.4 Nabarlek
  • 2.5 Other Activities in the Alligator Rivers Region
• 3 - Environmental Research and Monitoring
  • 3.1 Programme Objectives
  • 3.2 Environmental Radioactivity
  • 3.3 Ecosystem Protection
  • 3.4 Hydrological and Ecological Processes
  • 3.5 Ecological Risk Assessment
• 4 - Statutory Committees
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Alligator Rivers Region Advisory Committee
  • 4.3 Alligator Rivers Region Technical Committee
• 5 - National Centre for Tropical Wetland Research
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 National Centre for Tropical Wetland Research Activities
• 6 - Communication Liaison
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Research Support and Communication
  • 6.3 National and International Environmental Protection Issues
  • 6.4 Contribution to Wetlands Conservation
  • 6.5 Science Communication
  • 6.6 International Conferences
• 7 - Administrative Arrangements
  • 7.1 Human Resource Management
  • 7.2 Finance
  • 7.3 Facilities
  • 7.4 Interpretation of Ranger Environmental Requirements
  • 7.5 Ministerial Directions
  • 7.6 Ecologically Sustainable Development: Reporting Under Section 516A of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
  • 7.7 Animal Experimentation Ethics Approvals
• Appendix 1 - List of Publications 2002-03
• Appendix 2 - Presentations to Conferences and Symposia

• List of Tables
• List of Figures

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Contacts

The contact officer for queries relating to this report is:
Alex Zapantis
Supervising Scientist Division
Department of the Environment and Heritage
GPO Box 461, Darwin NT 0801 Australia
Telephone 61 8 8920 1100
Facsimile 61 8 8920 1199
Email enquiries_ssd@deh.gov.au

For more information about Supervising Scientist publications contact:

Publications Inquiries
Supervising Scientist Division
Department of the Environment and Heritage
GPO Box 461, Darwin NT 0801 Australia
Telephone 61 8 8920 1100
Facsimile 61 8 8920 1199
Email publications_ssd@deh.gov.au

© Commonwealth of Australia 2003

This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from the Supervising Scientist.

 

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