Appendix 1.2

Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, 1976-77

The Commissioners:

the Honourable Russell Walter Fox, Senior Judge of the Australian

Capital Territory Supreme Court

Graeme George Kelleher, civil engineer and Hearings Commissioner

Charles Baldwin Kerr, Professor of Preventive and Social

Medicine at the University of Sydney

Terms of Reference:

The Commission is required to inquire:

in respect of all the environmental aspects of:

(a) the formulation of proposals;

(b) the carrying out of works and other projects;

(c) the negotiation, operation and enforcement of agreements and arrangements;

(d) the making of, or the participation in the making of, decisions and recommendations; and

(e) the incurring of expenditure, by, or on behalf of, the Australian Government and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and other authorities of Australia for and in relation to the development by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in association with Ranger Uranium Mines Pty Ltd of uranium deposits in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Advisors to the Commission:

Mr Clifford Christian - Ecology and Land Use

Mr Chester Gray - Nuclear Technology and Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering

Mr William Gray - Aboriginal Welfare

Dr Barry Hart - Water and Water Quality

Mr William Holder (resigned 15 January 1976) - International law and Relations

Mr John Lake (resigned 3 November 1975) - Fresh Water Biology

Professor Gregory McColl - Economics

Dr Ronald Rosen - Radiation Protection

Professor Donald Greig (appointed vice Mr William Holder, with effect from 28 April 1976) - International Law and Relations