a) Receive a business plan from the proponent and ensure that it includes a comprehensive list of inputs, operations and outputs to identify hazards.
b) Use independent advice to assess hazards presented by the pulp mill and wood supply operations.
c) Commission independent advice to identify all risks to the community, other businesses and the environment created by mill operations and its wood and chemical supplies.
d) Set limits to all hazardous operations such that the public and environment are not exposed to undue risks (eg. maximum levels of dioxin that can be discharged in effluent over the life of the mill, maximum farm area that can be converted to plantations, maximum share of the water budget in each catchment for growing trees).
e) Identify practical means of measuring to ensure that the limits are not exceeded.
f) Draw up procedures to notify all the operators when there is a risk of exceeding limits.
g) Authorise a shut-down of the mill to prevent limits being exceeded.
h) Demand an audited liability insurance coverage by the proponent.
i) Set the means by which communities and businesses will be compensated for any damage created by mill hazards that were not identified during planning.
