Dear Mr Monceaux

We refer to your correspondence of 4 March 2017 (below) requesting various documents from the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (the department).

Your request will be processed in accordance with the FOI Act.

You will be notified of any charges or a decision as soon as practicable.

For documents that fall within the scope of the request, it is the department’s policy to withhold:

• the names, signatures and contact details of departmental staff who are not in the Senior Executive Service (SES);
• the mobile phone numbers of SES officers; and
• the names, signatures and contact details of ministerial staff below the level of Chief of Staff.

The names and other details of SES officers will be released unless the information is exempt from disclosure.

If you require the names or contact details listed above, please let us know by return email at [email address] otherwise we will consider that you agree to that information being excluded from the scope of your request.

Should you have any queries in relation to this email, please do not hesitate to contact the FOI team.

Kind regards

FOI team
Legal, Audit and Assurance Branch| Corporate Network
[email address]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Monceaux [mailto:[FOI #3190 email]]
Sent: Saturday, 4 March 2017 11:22 PM
To: Freedom of Information <[Department of Industry, Science, Energy &amp; Resources request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Minutes of all meetings of the Maralinga Rehabilitation Technical Advisory Committee (MARTAC)

Dear Department of Industry, Innovation and Science FoI officers,

I am writing to request electronic copies of minutes of all meetings of the Maralinga Rehabilitation Technical Advisory Committee. This committee was established in the 1990s and I presume it ceased to exist in the 2000s following the publication of this report in 2003: https://industry.gov.au/resource/Documen...

I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982.

Yours sincerely,

Dan Monceaux

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Dear Mr Monceaux

I refer to your FOI request of 4 March 2017, in which you sought access to electronic copies of minutes of all meetings of the Maralinga Rehabilitation Technical Advisory Committee (MARTEC Committee).

The department has conducted extensive searches for documents within the scope of your request.

The documents identified as in the department’s possession are those which were included as an appendix on the accompanying CD-ROM to the Rehabilitation of Former Nuclear Test Sites at Emu and Maralinga (Australia) – a report by the Maralinga Rehabilitation Technical Advisory Committee (MARTAC Report). The CD-ROM was attached to the back of the MARTAC Report. It is a publicly available document, and as such the department is happy to provide you with administrative access to the document outside the FOI Act. Please find the documents attached.

We note that there has been a number of Machinery of Government changes since the MARTEC was established. For this reason, further records may be held with the Department of Education and Training and the National Archives of Australia.

We trust the above information and attached documentation satisfies your request, and will consider your FOI request as withdrawn unless we hear from you in the alternative by Thursday 30 March 2017.

Should you have any queries in relation to this matter please contact the FOI team.

FOI team
Legal, Audit and Assurance Branch| Corporate Network
[email address]
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Department of Industry, Innovation and Science | www.industry.gov.au