The Public Environment Report for the Browns Oxide proposal received responses from over twenty concerned individuals and representative stakeholder organisations.

Most of these recommended that, rather than considering opening the region up to further contamination from radioactive waste and other heavy metal contaminants, immediate plans for Rum Jungle should remain focussed on rehabilitation. The degraded local environment must not be used to justify, nor camouflage, any proposal for further pollution. We don’t need another miner to come in to resolve the outstanding responsibility for rehabilitation: this already sits firmly on the shoulders of the parties who profited from Rum Jungle Uranium Mine, who remain well resourced to address their responsibility.

Foremost among these are the Commonwealth Government, through its agency the AAEC (now ANSTO, who provided the radiological impact report for this project) and notably miner Conzinc (now Rio Tinto, who through its subsidiary ERA, operate Ranger Uranium Mine within the boundaries of Kakadu National Park). There is also a strong argument for funding the rehabilitation of past disgraces such as Rum Jungle through an industry trust built from a levy on new mines.

Among submissions made to the PER process are the following documents from :
the Australian Conservation Foundation
and the Environment Centre of the Northern Territory