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Please accept this submission to the Senate Inquiry into Rehabilitation of Mining and Resource Projects as it Relates to Commonwealth Responsibilities.

Most of the open cut mines in the Hunter Valley were valuable grazing land before mining.

Rehabilitation is mostly small trees and bushes (scrub).

This hides from sight the failure of rehab and leaves useless country.
Another concern is that the mines especially Coal and Allied are throwing away the topsoil and using the subsoil mixed with compost to substitute topsoil.

Their claim is that topsoil contains weeds and causes extra work.

All the natural nutrients in the topsoil are lost.

Yours sincerely, Helen Upward Rehabilitation of mining and resources projects as it relates to Commonwealth responsibilitiesSubmission 34