Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION (ALLIGATOR RIVERS REGION) ACT 1978 - SECT 5

    The Supervising Scientist has the following functions in relation to uranium mining operations in the Region:

  (a)   to devise and develop programs for research into, and programs for the collection and assessment of information relating to, the effects on the environment in the Region of uranium mining operations in the Region;

  (b)   to co - ordinate, and supervise, the carrying out of programs referred to in paragraph   ( a);

  (c)   to devise and develop, and to promote and assist in the devising and development of:

  (i)   standards, practices and procedures in relation to uranium mining operations in the Region for the protection of, or in so far as those standards, practices and procedures affect, the environment in the Region; and

  (ii)   measures for the protection and restoration of the environment in the Region from the effects of uranium mining operations in the Region;

  (d)   to co - ordinate, and supervise, the implementation, in relation to uranium mining operations in the Region, of requirements of or having effect under prescribed instruments in so far as those requirements relate to any matter affecting the environment in the Region;

  (e)   to advise the Minister with respect to:

  (i)   the effects on the environment in the Region of uranium mining operations in the Region;

  (ii)   standards, practices and procedures in relation to uranium mining operations in the Region for the protection of, or in so far as those standards, practices and procedures affect, the environment in the Region;

  (iii)   measures for the protection and restoration of the environment in the Region from the effects of uranium mining operations in the Region; and

  (iv)   requirements of or having effect under prescribed instruments in relation to uranium mining operations in the Region in so far as those requirements relate to any matter affecting the environment in the Region and the implementation of those requirements;

  (f)   to perform such other functions, in relation to uranium mining operations in the Region, as are conferred on him or her by or under a prescribed instrument (including this Act); and

  (g)   to do anything incidental or conducive to the performance of any of the foregoing functions.