Mackenzie Valley Standard Procedures & Consistency

Working Groups

Plan Review Process and Guidelines (PRPG working group)

Purpose:

To develop a standard process for the review of management plans and to develop standard guidelines and/or templates for each common management plan under a water licence or land use permit within the Mackenzie Valley.

How we started...

Identify Management Plans of Interest & Collect Infor

mation

Identified Management Plans

1. Spill Contingency Plan2. Aquatic Effects Monitoring Plan3. Waste Management Plan4. Closure & Reclamation/ Abandonment

& Restoration Plan5. Adaptive Management Plan6. Ammonia Management Plan

Uranium Management Plan???

What we’re working on right now...

Develop Guidelines & Templates for Management Plans

Identify Management Plans of Interest & Collect Infor

mation

Spill Contingency

• INAC has “Spill Contingency Guidelines” in place– WLWB have officially adopted these and MVLWB

currently use them,• Several stakeholders have recommended the use of

these guidelines for several projects• PRPG working group may make this recommendation

with our final product

Aquatic Effects Monitoring Plan

(AEMP)

• In 2006, INAC began the process of creating AEMP guidelines

• INAC has held several workshops• PRPG working group has provided comments to INAC

on how they should proceed with the development of these guidelines

Waste Management Plan• Working group members are currently working on

this internally• Have developed a preliminary table of contents• Intending to send out to a consultant to review once

complete

Closure & Reclamation/Abandonment & Restoration Plan

• Two separate guidelines– Oil & Gas– Mining

• Internal work and consultant help so far• Will be circulate for general review

Adaptive Management Plan (AdMP)

• WLWB currently dealing with BHP Billiton and Diavik AdMPs

• Have developed a preliminary table of contents with DRAFT content

• When complete, PRPG working group will determine how we can use it for all of the LWBs

Ammonia Management Plan

• Development of template on hold

• Will investigate relevance later

Uranium Management Plan???

• WLWB has a DRAFT Uranium Policy going out for review by 2008

• Once in place, working group will consider a template for a Uranium Management Plan

Where we’re headed...

Put guidelines& templates intosingle resource document

Develop Guidelines & Templates for Management Plans

Identify Management Plans of Interest & Collect Infor

mation

Areas for Cooperation

• INAC - AEMP• Working group #4

– Terms and Conditions

Next Steps• One single document

• “external product” then

• One or several documents• “internal product”

The End

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