Hon Sophia Moermond asks the Minister for Environment when the Pemberton mill site records will be available to the community for free, as promised in a May 2024 letter, given the current high cost of access. The Parliamentary Secretary responds that the Department will waive the fee for a detailed summary of records application.

AnsweredQoN 1261Legislative Council
Asked
22 October 2024
Portfolio
Environment

QuestionView source ↗

PEMBERTON MILL SITE
1261. Hon SOPHIA MOERMOND to the parliamentary secretary
representing the Minister for Environment:
I refer to correspondence sent from
the minister's office, reference 79-14245, on 9 May 2024 to South West
Region constituents Mr Henk Dirks and Mrs Deborah Dirks in relation to their
request for all copies of the detailed summary of records for the Pemberton
mill site on the reported sites register to be publicly available, fee-free,
for the local community. Given that six months has passed and the record access
costs amount to thousands of dollars, can the minister please advise how long
this community will have to wait for free access to these records?

AnswerView source ↗

I thank the member for some notice
of the question on behalf of her constituents. On behalf of the Minister for
Environment, I provide the following answer.
The Department of Water and
Environmental Regulation will waive the fee for a detailed summary of records
application made using the prescribed form 2—a request for a summary of
records in respect of land—for this site.

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