A COMMISSION of inquiry has finished public hearings into how an extensive fire was sparked by a botched explosives exercise at a Defence Training area near the NSW city of Lithgow.
But the inquiry report and recommendations may remain under wraps if Defence chiefs so decide.
The fire that started on October 16 grew into the destructive State Mine blaze, which tore through more than 50,000 hectares and destroyed five houses, a Rural Fire Service (RFS) investigation found.
The fire broke out during a live explosives exercise at the Marrangaroo Training Area near Lithgow.
Defence apologised for starting the fire and appointed an inquiry headed by former Sydney judge John O'Meally, assisted by Brigadier Jane Spalding and Air Commodore David Steele.
Eight days of public hearings finished on Wednesday.
During the hearings the inquiry learned that despite RFS recommendations, hazard reduction burns at the training ground had not been carried out for nearly two decades.
It also emerged that equipment at the site was inadequate to cope and exploding ordnance hindered efforts to control the blaze.
A lack of co-operation between Defence and the RFS was also exposed at the hearings.
A Defence spokesman told AAP the inquiry panel would prepare a report for Defence and submit it within a month or so.
The Defence department would then consider the report and its recommendations.
It would be up to the Chief of the Defence Force and the Secretary of Defence to determine whether the report would be released publicly, the spokesman said.
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