RSLS Canadian Legacy Sites

Tour and Workshop 2014

April / May 2014

Tentatively

• 2 days of closed mine tours

• 2 days of workshop

Location

• Elliot Lake, Ontario was home to 12

mines, 10 mills.

• The last remediation was completed in

the late 1990s.

• Currently being managed by Rio Algom

and Denison Mines.

Elliot Lake is located here.

• 540 km NW of Toronto

• 650 km W of Ottawa

• 161 km W of Sudbury

• 3800 km E of Vancouver

• 2900 km E of Banff

• 3400 km W of St. John’s

Workshop - Day 1 - AM

• 1. CNSC - Introduction and framing of issues

• 2. RSLS - The mandate of the group, a summary of work and

anticipated deliverables.

• 3. NOAMI - Intergovernmental initiative studying legacy mine

problems across Canada

• 4. NRCan - Policy and funding approach to Federal legacy and

shared legacy sites

• Short break

• 5. Denison - non-legacy, Elliot Lake decommissioned sites - some

provincial government liabilities, financial assurances

• 6. Rio Algom - non-legacy, long-term management of tailings sites

• Lunch

Workshop - Day 1 - PM

• 7. EWL - non-legacy, Bancroft decommissioned sites -

perpetual management, financial assurances

• 8. Country case study - uranium contaminated sites

• Short break

• 9. Open discussions on the days issues

Workshop Day 2 - AM

• 10. CNSC - Regulatory requirements under the NSCA and Legacy site approaches

• 11. ECON - Saskatchewan Institutional Controls Program

• 12. SRC - meeting modern requirements, legacy problems

• 13. Cameco - Beaverlodge - Federal government Legacy site, managed by Cameco,decommissioned in 1982, changing regulatory requirements

• Short break

• 14. INAC - Port Radium, CDUT and issues related to local involvement in planning, managing expectations

• 15. MNDM - Managing legacy liabilities in Ontario (Agnew Lake as a case study, but not necessarily restricted to uranium)

• Lunch

Workshop Day 2 - PM

• 16. LLRWMO - Other legacy sites (uranium and radium) in

Canada

• 17. Country case study - uranium contaminated sites

• Short Break

• 18. Open discussions on the days issues

• 19. CNSC - Summary of discussions and table of issues

• Typically the weather will be cool but

warming up.

• Safety boots are required by the

companies for the tours.

• Around a 20% chance that there will

still be ice on some lakes.

• Hoping to see you all in Canada