SA: Govt release draft guildelines for dump EIS

AAP General News (Australia)
04-06-2001
SA: Govt release draft guildelines for dump EIS

The federal government is on the final countdown towards establishing a low-level nuclear
waste dump.

The government has released draft guidelines for an environmental assessment of the project.

Environment Minister ROBERT HILL says the Environmental Impact Statement will examine
the preferred site, north-west of Woomera in South Australia's north, and two alternative
sites, east and north-east of the town.

Senator HILL says once the guidelines are locked in, the assessment should be completed
within a year, allowing for work on the dump to begin in 2002.

The public has until May 23 to comment on the proposed EIS guidelines.

Senator HILL says the government maintains the view the dump is a sensible and necessary
approach to the storage of low-level nuclear waste.

But he says there is still an understandable public nervousness about things nuclear.

Senator HILL says the issue is to make sure the government chooses the right site and
is using the right processes.

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KEYWORD: NUCLEAR (ADELAIDE)

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