Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste

Attachment Comment removed by Administrator due to vulnerability detected in an attachment

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administrator on behalf of Brennain Lloyd
• Reference number: 3828
• Submitted: 2020-06-24
• Project phase: Review of the Environmental Impact Statement by a Review Panel

Attachment Inquiry about public record and registry postings for review of OPG's DGR, Reference Number 17520

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administrator on behalf of Brennain Lloyd
• Reference number: 3829
• Submitted: 2020-06-24
• Project phase: Review of the Environmental Impact Statement by a Review Panel
• From: Brennain Lloyd, Northwatch Sent: June 24, 2020 7:26 AM To: DGR-Project (IAAC/AEIC) Subject: Inquiry about public record and registry postings for review of OPG's DGR, Reference Number 17520 Impact Assessment Agency of Canada 22nd Floor, 160 Elgin Street Reference Number 17520 Good morning, Local media in Bruce County have reported that OPG has withdrawn their application for their proposed deep geological repository for low and intermediate level waste beneath the Bruce Nuclear Generation Station (see https://blackburnnews.com/midwestern-ontario/midwestern-ontario-news/2020/06/22/opg-formally-ends-proposed-nuclear-waste-dgr-bruce-power/) but the most recent front page post on the IAA registry site for this project is dated August 21, 2017 and titled "The Minister of Environment and Climate Change has requested additional information on the environmental assessment from the proponent" (additional items are posted under "all documents", including one comment in 2020 submitted by John Mann and an exchange in 2019 between OPG and CEAA related to "Changes to Federal Legislation and implications for the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste"). We have three related questions: when can we expect to see OPG's notice of withdrawal of their application posted to the registry? will there be a formal response from the Minister? i.e. will the Minister's formally accept OPG's withdrawal of the DGR application and will that constitute the Minister's "decision statement" on this project? we are surprised that there are no posts on the ...

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Attachment Comment on EA process

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administrator on behalf of John Mann
• Reference number: 3823
• Submitted: 2020-05-06
• Project phase: Review of the Environmental Impact Statement by a Review Panel
• Mr. John Mann - Comment on EA process
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• From: John Mann <email address removed> Sent: May 6, 2020 2:53 PM To: Conditions (IAAC/AEIC) <email address removed>; 'Prime Minister Trudeau' <email address removed>; 'Bonnie Lysyk' <email address removed>; 'Michael Ferguson' <email address removed>; Ministre / Minister (EC) <email address removed>; 'MPP Lisa Thompson' <email address removed>; 'MP Ben Lobb' <email address removed>; 'CEAA Project Manager' <CEAA.DGR.Project- Projet.DGR.ACEE@ceaa-acee.gc.ca>; Laurie Swami <email address removed >; Minister Wilkinson <email address removed>; NWMO <email address removed>; Premier Doug Ford <email address removed>; Prime Minister of Canada <email address removed>; Velshi, Rumina (CNSC/CCSN) <email address removed>; Ken Hartwick <email address removed>; McGovern, David (IAAC/AEIC) <email address removed> Cc: 'Amanda Pfeffer' <email address removed>; 'barb' <email address removed>; 'Beverly Fernandez' <email address removed>; 'Cheryl Grace' <email address removed>; 'David Akin' <email address removed>; Demers, Manon (IAAC/AEIC) <email address removed>; 'Don Matheson' <email address removed>; 'Eugene Bourgeois' <email address removed>; 'Frances Learment' <email address removed>; 'fsteve finch' <email address removed>; 'Heather [CEAA] Smith' <email address removed>; 'Jill Taylor' <email address removed>; 'Jim Lynch' <email address removed> 'John Rich' <email address removed>; 'Kristina Premachuk' <email address removed>; 'Luke Charbonneau' <email address removed>; 'Mayor Jackson' <email address removed>; 'Mayor McIver' <email address removed>; 'Mayor Weaver' <email address removed>; 'Mike Myatt' <email address removed>; 'Mike Strobel' <email address removed>; 'Pat Gibbons' <email address removed>; Info ...

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Attachment The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency's correspondence regarding the coming into force of the new Impact Assessment Act and the DGR project

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administrator on behalf of Robyn-Lynne Virtue
• Reference number: 3822
• Submitted: 2019-08-12
• Project phase: Review of the Environmental Impact Statement by a Review Panel
• Participation notice: Public Notice - Deep Geologic Repository Project - Public Comment Invited on Additional Information
• Please see the attached correspondence regarding the coming into force of the new Impact Assessment Act and its applicability to the DGR project being assessed under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012.
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• 160 Elgin St., 22nd floor 160, rue Elgin, 22e étage Ottawa ON K1A 0H3 Ottawa ON K1A 0H3 www.canada.ca/ceaa www.canada.ca/acee August 12, 2019 Ms. Lise Morton Vice-President Nuclear Waste Management Ontario Power Generation 1340 Pickering Place, P84, Fourth Floor Pickering, ON L1V 0C4 Dear Ms. Morton: RE: Changes to Federal Legislation and implications for the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste Project On August 28, 2019, the Impact Assessment Act (IAA) will come into force, repealing the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 (CEAA 2012). The IAA contains transitional provisions that apply to projects undergoing an environmental assessment (EA) under CEAA 2012. This letter is to inform you of the transition provisions relevant to the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste Project (the Project), and next steps. On June 29, 2007, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency) posted a notice of referral for the EA of the Project under CEAA 2012. As per the transition provision described in subsection 183 of the IAA: “Any environmental assessment of a designated project referred to a review panel under section 38 of the 2012 Act before the day on which this Act comes into force is continued under the 2012 Act as if that Act had not been repealed.” On August 28, 2019, the Physical Activities Regulations (the Regulations) of the IAA will also come into force. The Project is a designated project under the IAA as described under the following item(s) of the Regulations: “s. 28(b) The construction and operation of either of the following: a new facility for the ...

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Attachment From John Mann to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3818
• Submitted: 2018-03-19
• From John Mann to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
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• From: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] To: John Mann Cc: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] Subject: RE: Prorogation and OPG clothes and rags DGR unnecessarily squander obscene amounts of Taxpayer dollars! Date: March 26, 2018 12:02:18 PM Dear Mr. Mann, We were informed that you wrote on March 19, 2018 to the Deep Geologic Repository Project, as shown below. We thank you for your correspondence and wish to remind you to use the following email address for correspondence pertaining to proposed Deep Geologic Repository Project: CEAA.DGR.Project-Projet.DGR.ACEE@ceaa-acee.gc.ca. Correspondence sent to that email address is routinely monitored and those pertaining to the proposed Project are placed on the record and posted to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Registry Internet Site (the Registry). In order to ensure that your correspondence relating to the proposed Project is received and considered, we encourage you to send it directly to this email address. All correspondence received in the Project mailbox is read and a standard response is sent to acknowledge the receipt of comments and submissions. The standard response also advises that the correspondence will be posted on the Registry, addresses matters related to confidential information, and informs the sender that their name will be added to the distribution list. Such a response was sent to you last on November 26, 2017. If the incoming correspondence received to the Project mailbox includes specific questions pertaining to the environmental assessment of the proposed Project, a detailed response is prepared to respond to the specific ...

Attachment From Susan Addley to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3816
• Submitted: 2018-03-05
• From Susan Addley to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
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• From: Susan Addley To: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] Subject: St. Clair River Date: March 1, 2018 1:03:12 PM I live in Port Huron Michigan and have the pleasure of looking out my front window at all the glory of Sarnia and chemical valley across the river from me. Hasn’t Ontario made enough of a mark on the great lakes region? Now you want to add to your repertoire a nuclear waste dump!! You have plenty of wide open space in Canada… go dump your garbage elsewhere. I vote no to the location plans for the dump. Susan Addley American Citizen mailto:DGR.Project@ceaa-acee.gc.ca

Attachment From John Mann to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Computer Memory Stick of John Mann's Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3815
• Submitted: 2018-01-22
• From John Mann to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Computer Memory Stick of John Mann's Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
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• January 22, 2018 John R. Mann III Cidzen Saugeen Township Port Elgin Saugccn Shores <personal information removed> Beach Bum World Headquarters Port Elgin Beach Tel:<personal information removed> Tel: <personal information removed> F ax<persoiial iiiroiina1i0n-removed> <email address removed> Deep Geologic Repository Project Project Manager & Minister of the Environment of Canada McKenna c/o National Programs Division Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency [CEAA] 22"d Floor, 160 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON KIA OH3 cceaa.conditions.acee@cess-acee.gc.ca CEAA.DGR.Project-Projet.DGR.ACEE@ceaa-acee.gc.ca Re: Computer Memory Stick of John Mann's OPG DGR Record to Minister of the Environment of Canada McKenna related to Review of Joint Review Panel's DGR Report Dear Minister McKenna & Deep Geologic Repository Project Manager: Oops! I forgot to send you the enclosed computer memory stick for downloading all volumes I through XXXIII of my DGR Record onto the Page 1 Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry website for the DGR Project for the Minister of the Environment of Canada and everyone to meaningfully review and meaningfully consider and meaningfully include in her decision. [copy of JRM letter of January 19, 2018, attached.] Thank you. Most Resoectfully <Original signed by> ' ~Mann Citizen Registered DGR Participant Saugeen Shores, Ontario By email and by regular mail Read Receipt Requested Page2 Janua!) 19. ~OIS John R. Mann III CtttZ(.' n s~lllf!Cen Ton nslllp Porr £(.!!111 Siiug(.·r:n Shore.' [Mailing Addres s: .no Stdcroad 28 / :!9 RR5 P:us ley, Ontario :--JOG lNOJ Be.tch Bum World Hcadquar£ers Port Elgin Beach Tel: 519.832.3553 ...

Attachment From John Mann to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Submissions on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (NOTE: All comments received are already posted on the Registry under John Mann)

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3814
• Submitted: 2018-01-19
• From John Mann to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Submissions on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (NOTE: All comments received are already posted on the Registry under John Mann)
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• January 19,2018 John R. Mann III Citizen Saugccn Township Port Elgin Saugccn Shores <personal information removed> Beach Bum World Headquarters Port Elgin Beach Tel: <personal information removed> Tel: <personal information removed> Fax: <personal information removed> <email address removed> Deep Geologic Repository Project Project Manager & Minister of the Environment of Canada McKenna c/o National Programs Division Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency [CEAA] 22"d Floor, 160 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON K 1 A OH3 cceaa.condi tions. acee@cess-acee. gc. ca CEAA.DGR.Project-Projet.DGR.ACEE@ceaa-acee.gc.ca Re: Submissions by John Mann, Citizen, Registered Participant, to Minister of the Environment of Canada McKenna related to Review of Joint Review Panel's DGR Report Dear Minister McKenna and Deep Geologic Repository Project Manager: The OPG DGR is time-barred by the 24 month Statute of Limitations in the CEAA. In addition, the irresponsible 2-Track 2-DGR boondoggle must be Page 1 • replaced by the responsible 1-Track 1-DGR process. As a result, the OPG DGR Application must be dismissed. I am enclosing hard copies of Volume XXXI, Volume XXXII, and Volume XXXIII of John Mann's DGR Record for the Minister's meaningful review, meaningful consideration, and meaningful inclusion in her decisions related to the Joint Review Panel's DGR Report. The contents found in these Volumes have previously been sent to the Minister by email. Please add these 3 hard copy Volumes to my other 30 hard copy Volumes previously made part of the OPG DGR Record sent to you. I am also enclosing a Computer Memory-Stick for downloading all Volumes I through XXXIII of John Mann's DGR Record ...

Attachment From the Municipality of Brockton to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Additional Information Submitted by the Proponent for the Project

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3812
• Submitted: 2018-01-12
• From the Municipality of Brockton to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Additional Information Submitted by the Proponent for the Project
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Attachment From John Mann to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3813
• Submitted: 2018-01-10
• From John Mann to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
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• Page 1 of2 John Mann From: Date: To: Cc: Subject: "John Mann" <email address removed> Wednesday, January 10,2018 9:04PM "Hon. Catherine McKenna" <Catherine.McKenna@parl.gc.ca>; "CEAA National Programs Div. conditions" <ceaa.conditions.acee@ceaa-acee.gc.ca>; "Prime Minister Trudeau" <justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca>; "Jeffrey Lyash" <email address removed> "Premier Wym1e" <premier@ontario.ca>; "Ken Nash" <email address removed>; "Michael Binder" <email address removed> "Bonnie Lysyk" <email address removed>; "Minister Jim Carr" <minister@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca>; "Michael Ferguson" <parliamentary.Jiaison@oag-bvg.gc.ca>; "Ministre I Minister (EC)" <ec.ministre-minister.ec@canada.ca>; "Laurie Swami" <email address removed> "Laurie Swami"<email address removed> "Wayne Robbins" <email address removed> "Aimee Puthon" <email address removed>" Amanda Pfeffer" <email address removed>; "barb" <email address removed> "Bettyanne Cobean" <email address removed> ; "Beverly Fernandez" <email address removed> ; "Capitan my Capitan" <email address removed> "Cheryl Grace" <email address removed> "Dave Myette" <email address removed> ; "David Akin" <email address removed>; "Demers Manon" <email address removed> ; "Don Matheson" <email address removed> "Eugene Bourgeois" <email address removed> "Frances Learment" <email address removed> "fsteve finch" <email address removed>"Heather [CEAA] Smith" <email address removed> "Jeny Keto" <email address removed>" Jill Taylor" <email address removed> "Jim Lynch" <email address removed>"John Rich" <email address removed> "Kristina Premachuk" <email address removed> ; "Linda White" <email address removed> "Luke Charbonneau" <email address removed> "Mayor Buckle" <email ...

Attachment From the City of Harbor Beach, Michigan to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Resolution Opposing the Construction of a Nuclear Waste Repository in the Great Lakes Basin

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3811
• Submitted: 2017-09-18
• From the City of Harbor Beach, Michigan to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Resolution Opposing the Construction of a Nuclear Waste Repository in the Great Lakes Basin
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• 'r r CitY,. of Harbor Beach World's Ctelllest Mon-Mocfe Horbor 766 State Street Harbor Beach, Michigan 48441 L SEP 2 B LuI, l;.e~u ACEE RCN I Ms. Debra Myles •• . c;}t-¢ PC>s'\- • ,9~~.=....~ f: pI "":iia•..-r ....... ~ -PITN~V D O W! S $ , .. 50 02 1P 001 . • 0000033093 SEP 21 2017 MAILED FROM ZIP CODE 48441 DGR joint Review Panel Co-Manager cjo Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency 160 Elgin St., 22nd Floor Ottawa, ON KlA OH3 C•0:29St'.:f:2.20 1 1111111 u, N,, 1111 Jl 1, ,/11 IJI 111111 J/l•ll/1 111, ~JnJ~IIIJ 1 ll"l ...,.,. 1 ~ ) -·, 1.. \ City of Harbor Beach 766 State Street Harbor Beach, Michigan 48441 September 18, 20 17 Ms. Debra Myles DGR Joint Review Panel Co-Manager c/o Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency 160 Elgin St., 22"d Floor Ottawa, ON KIA OH3 Re: Case Reference # 17520, Telephone: 989-479-3363 Facs1mile: 989-479-3343 Resolution# 2017-38, .. Opposing the Construction of a Nuclear Waste Repository in the Great Lakes Basin". Dear Ms. Myles: Enclosed please find a copy of Resolution# 2017-38, "Opposing the Construction of a Nuclear Waste Repository in the Great Lakes Basin", adopted by the Council of the City Harbor Beach, for your review. Thank you for your time and consideration regarding the above matter. Sincerely, Leslie A. Woycehoski, CMMC City of Harbor Beach Clerk Enclosures World's Greatest Man-Made Harbor <Original signed by> RESOLUTION# 2017~38 OPPOSING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY IN THE GREATLAKES BASIN At a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Harbor Beach held on Monday, April 17, 2017 at City Hall and called to order at 7:00 p.m. by Mayor Booms, the ...

Attachment From the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency to an Undisclosed Member of the Public re: Response to Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3804
• Submitted: 2017-08-16
• From the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency to an Undisclosed Member of the Public re: Response to Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
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• From: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] To: Cc: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] Subject: RE: CEAR, Information Request Date: August 16, 2017 1:48:04 PM Thank you for your correspondence of August 8th, 2017, concerning the Deep Geologic Repository for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste Project (the Project) proposed by Ontario Power Generation (the proponent). Your message raises concerns about water seepage and the kinds of waste that may be stored in the underground. First, we would like to draw your attention to the project file on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency’s (the Agency) registry, reference number 17520. The registry is the primary source of information pertaining to the project to date, and it is updated on an ongoing basis. The overall conclusion from the Joint Review Panel report (Registry record 2206) is that the Project is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects, taking into account the implementation of the mitigation measures committed to by the proponent, with the mitigation measures recommended by the Panel. Of most relevance to your concerns, other findings from the environmental assessment include that the Project: · would be for L&ILW only. OPG repeatedly and categorically stated that used fuel would not be placed in the DGR. Low and intermediate-level radioactive waste (L&ILW) is produced as a by-product of the operation of nuclear generating stations owned by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) at the Bruce, Pickering and Darlington sites in Ontario · is the solution for the long-term management of low and intermediate-level ...

Attachment From an Undisclosed Member of the Public to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3803
• Submitted: 2017-08-08
• From an Undisclosed Member of the Public to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
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• From: To: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] Subject: CEAR, Information Request Date: August 8, 2017 11:56:57 AM I am curious about what plans are in place if water seeps into the underground storage facility. It will become radioactive and will begin to fill the storage area. Also, will the authority running the repository be allowed to offer storage to other interests with waste they want to get rid of? <email address removed>

Attachment From SOS Great Lakes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (See Reference Document #3792)

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3810
• Submitted: 2017-08-04
• From SOS Great Lakes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (See Reference Document #3792)
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• From: To: catherine.mckenna@parl.gc.ca Cc: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] Subject: Letter From SOS Great Lakes to the Hon. Catherine McKenna Regarding Cost of L&ILW DGR Date: August 11, 2017 2:12:54 PM Attachments: Aug 4, 2017 IR to Minister McKenna 3rd.pdf Honorable Minister McKenna, SOS Great Lakes has in the past submitted requests for the release of the Class 5 cost estimates referred to by OPG in their reports to your Ministry and to the CEAA. This is our third request that you ask OPG to release the cost reports so that the public may understand the elemental breakdown of the currently unsubstantiated costs of the DGR. It is very unfair that a not for profit organization of volunteers who have consistently and diligently responded to government requests for public comment since 2012, should be told to FOI the Class 5 costs. In an open and transparent process, it is obvious that these costs should already have have been made available to you and to the public. Yours truly, Jill Taylor, President SOS Great Lakes. <email address removed> Jill Taylor P.O. Box 30017, King Street PO, Toronto ON M5V 0A3 info@sosgreatlakes.org   August 4, 2017 Honourable Catherine McKenna Minister of Environment and Climate Change House of Commons Ottawa ON K1A 0A6 Re: Information Request Related to the Class 5 Cost Estimate for the OPG Deep Geologic Repository Project in Kincardine, Ontario Honourable Minister McKenna: SOS Great Lakes sent the enclosed letter to your office on June 20, 2017, and an enclosed follow-up letter on July 24, 2017, but have not received a reply. It is more urgent than ever ...

Attachment From Georgina Schaeff to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3801
• Submitted: 2017-06-26
• From Georgina Schaeff to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
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• From: To: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] Subject: RE: Deep Geologic Repository Project/Project de stockage de déchet radioactifs - Message for Interested Parties/Message pour les parties Intéressées Date: June 26, 2017 6:17:40 PM Please, do not proceed with this project. Dumping radioactive waste beside Lake Huron is fool-hardy and reckless. What happened to your mandate to protect our environment? What about the millions of people, both Canadian and American living in the Great Lake Basin who depend on the lakes for their drinking water? Why would you risk it? Georgina Schaeff From: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] [mailto:CEAA.DGR.Project-Projet.DGR.ACEE@ceaa-acee.gc.ca] Sent: June-26-17 5:18 PM To: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] Subject: Deep Geologic Repository Project/Project de stockage de déchet radioactifs - Message for Interested Parties/Message pour les parties Intéressées   (Le français suit)   Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste   Interested ...

Attachment From SOS Great Lakes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3794
• Submitted: 2017-06-26
• From SOS Great Lakes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
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•   1     June 26, 2017 Deep Geologic Repository Project Project Manager Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency 160 Elgin Street 22nd Floor, Ottawa Ceaa.dgr.project-projet.dgr.acee@ceaa-acee.gc.ca Re: Comments of SOS Great Lakes to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency on the Response to Information Request package submitted May 26, 2017 by Lise Morton Vice President Nuclear Waste Management, OPG to To Ms. Robyn-Lynne Virtue, Panel Manager Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency. (CEAA Doc 3784- 144 pages) To whom this may concern: SOS Great Lakes is pleased to provide the following comments on the matter of the Additional Information Package submitted to the CEAA by OPG for the proposed Low and Intermediate Level Nuclear Waste Deep Geologic Repository in Kincardine, Ontario. Sincerely, Jill Taylor President on behalf to SOS Great Lakes, and the Board of Directors.                                                                                                                                           2                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           ...

Attachment From SOS Great Lakes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Correspondence regarding the Cost Estimate Request for the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (NOTE: Updated with additional correspondence on September 6, 2017)

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3792
• Submitted: 2017-06-20
• From SOS Great Lakes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Correspondence regarding the Cost Estimate Request for the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (NOTE: Updated with additional correspondence on September 6, 2017)
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• P.O. Box 30017, King Street PO, Toronto ON M5V 0A3 info@sosgreatlakes.org   July 24, 2017 Honourable Catherine McKenna Minister of Environment and Climate Change House of Commons Ottawa ON K1A 0A6 Re: Information Request Related to the Class 5 Cost Estimate for the OPG Deep Geologic Repository Project in Kincardine, Ontario Honourable Minister McKenna: SOS Great Lakes sent the enclosed letter to your office on June 20, 2017. We have not received an answer and would be grateful if you would respond to our request. Yours very truly,      Jill Taylor, President SOS Great Lakes, On Behalf of the Board of Directors      c.c. Robyn Lynn Virtue, CEAA Kevin Powers, OPG <Original signed by> From: SOS Great Lakes [mailto:info@sosgreatlakes.org] Sent: June 20, 2017 6:10 PM To: catherine.mckenna@parl.gc.ca Cc: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE]; Subject: SOS Great Lakes_Information Request to Minister McKenna_June 20 2017 To the Honourable Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna, Please find attached a letter from SOS Great Lakes, and an attachment containing the referenced texts. A copy of this letter and its attachments will also be sent by registered mail. Thank you in advance for your kind attention to this important matter. Regards, Annabel Westell SOS Great Lakes www.sosgreatlakes.org <contact information removed> P.O. Box 30017, King Street PO, Toronto ON M5V 0A3 info@sosgreatlakes.org   June 20, 2017 Honourable Catherine McKenna Minister of Environment and Climate Change House of Commons Ottawa ON K1A 0A6 ...

Attachment From Neal Reid to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3793
• Submitted: 2017-06-05
• From Neal Reid to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
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• From: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] Sent: June 21, 2017 12:11 PM To: Cc: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] Subject: RE: ATTN: Project DGR at Bruce Dear Mr. Neal Reid, Thank you for your correspondence of June 5, 2017 and the attached information about nuclear waste vitrification. In completing its review, the Joint Review Panel was satisfied with the information presented by the proponent to fulfill the requirements of the EIS Guidelines with respect to the purpose of and the need for the project, alternatives to the project and alternate means of carrying out the project. The Joint Review Panel also accepted the proponent’s selection of the Deep Geological Repository as the preferred alternative for the management of its low and intermediate level waste. The Joint Review Panel Environmental Impact Assessment Report can be found on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency’s Registry as record #2206. Based on the work conducted by the Joint Review Panel and its recommendations, the Agency would not require further investigation on this topic as part of the environmental assessment. The information you have provided to us on vitrification has been forwarded to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for their information as they are the department responsible for regulating the use of nuclear energy and materials as well as for the licensing process should the DGR project proceed. You may also contact the proponent directly at dgrinfo@opg.com with your questions or comments, as they may be able to discuss with you, in greater detail, their views on vitrification as an ...

Attachment From John Mann to the Canadian Environmental Assessemnt Agency re: Exchange of e-mails regarding timelines and key milestones for the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (See reference document #3770) (NOTE: Updated October 27, 2017)

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3788
• Submitted: 2017-06-01
• From John Mann to the Canadian Environmental Assessemnt Agency re: Exchange of e-mails regarding timelines and key milestones for the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (See reference document #3770) (NOTE: Updated October 27, 2017)
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• From: John Mann Sent: October 25, 2017 10:24 PM To: Hon. Catherine McKenna; Conditions (CEAA/ACEE); Trudeau, Justin: HOC; Jeffrey Lyash; Premier Wynne; Ken Nash; Binder, Michael: CNSC; Bonnie Lysyk; Minister Jim Carr; Michael Ferguson; Ministre / Minister (EC); Laurie Swami; Laurie Swami; Wayne Robbins; MPP Lisa Thompson; MP Ben Lobb; Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] Cc: Amanda Pfeffer; barb; Bettyanne Cobean; Beverly Fernandez; Capitan my Capitan; Cheryl Grace; Dave Myette; David Akin; Demers,Manon [CEAA]; Don Matheson; Eugene Bourgeois; Frances Learment; fsteve finch; Smith,Heather [CEAA]; Jerry Keto; Jill Taylor; Jim Lynch; John Rich; Kristina Premachuk; Linda White; Luke Charbonneau; Mayor Buckle; Mayor Eadie; Mayor Eagleson; Mayor Inglis; Mayor Jackson; Mayor McIver; Mayor Mike Smith; Mayor Weaver; Binder, Michael: CNSC; Mike Myatt; Mike Strobel; Mitch Twolan (Warden); Neil Menage; Pat Gibbons; info@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca; Information (CNSC/CCSN); Rob Dobos; Santa Claus; Sarah Patterson-Snell; Sarah Roberts; Scott Berry; Senator Hopgood; Chapman,Steve [CEAA]; Kurt Saunders; Saunders,Kurt [CEAA]; Janice MacKay; Chris Adams; Lorrie Goldstein; Fred Kuntz; Jennifer Wells; Dale Palin; W5; Mitchell Rivard; Thomas Walkom; Aimee Puthon; John Mann Subject: The Minister's deafening silence in the face of undisputed facts that time-bars the OPG DGR confirms the Minister has no authority whatsoever that would allow her to save the OPG DGR from termination! Importance: High October 25, 2017 Re: The Minister’s deafening silence in the face of undisputed facts that time-bars the OPG DGR confirms the Minister has no authority whatsoever that would allow ...

Attachment From Westley W Wood to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3787
• Submitted: 2017-06-01
• From Westley W Wood to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
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• From: To: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] Subject: CEAR, Information Request Date: June 1, 2017 5:14:50 PM The radioactive waste proposals are convincing arguments that nuclear generation is too dangerous. Reports are surfacing within the nuclear industry that Fukushima will take 1000 years to play out but will result in the death of all life on our planet. It is doubtful Canadian children will get special treatment to inhabit other planets simply because their great...great...ancestors allowed the planet to die an unnatural death. Our leaders think we can escape to somewhere else ... sounds like madness to think that it is possible. For the sake of the future, outlaw the production of radioactive wastes and incrementally begin a crash clean-up. Westley W Wood Wes <personal information removed> mailto:CEAA.DGR.Project-Projet.DGR.ACEE@ceaa-acee.gc.ca

Attachment From WildGreens Canada to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3786
• Submitted: 2017-05-31
• From WildGreens Canada to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
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• From: To: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] Cc: ; thecurrent@cbc.ca; ontariotoday@cbc.ca Subject: Re: Deep Geologic Repository Project/Project de stockage de déchet radioactifs - Message for Interested Parties/Message pour les parties Intéressées Date: May 31, 2017 10:00:07 AM Attention: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] <CEAA.DGR.Project-Projet.DGR.ACEE@ceaa- acee.gc.ca> and all others b:cc'd to which it should concern with regards to the planned DGR (nuclear waste 'storage site') at Kincardine Ontario, Canada, RE: SEISMIC ACTIVITY Having reviewed the very thorough reply provided in your PDF, we unfortunately do not trust these findings with specific regards to the seismic activity from the section on seismicity found in this detailed reply from page 11 of 144 and noting the map provided on page 13 of 144. This report fails to satisfy our concerns about the ongoing seismic activity in the Madrid Fault found outside the greater St. Louis area in the U.S.A. Please find supporting details we have provided you and your research teams with regards to our earlier submission questioning the safety and integrity of this site. In our earlier submission we noted the association of volcanic activity in Italy at Mount Etna which is currently active and how it directly relates to activity that occurs in the Madrid fault. This activity would likely increase your odds scale set at 1: 1million probability with regards to past present and future seismic activity in the surrounding faults. Again we refer to the local Grenville Fault nearby. We absolutely agree with the following submission from Edwin Lyman, a senior ...

Attachment From the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency to Natalie Gallimore re: Response to Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (see reference document #3782)

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3783
• Submitted: 2017-05-26
• From the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency to Natalie Gallimore re: Response to Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (see reference document #3782)
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• From: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] To: Cc: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] Subject: RE: OPG"s Deep Geologic Repository (DGP) Date: May 26, 2017 10:58:41 AM Dear Ms. Gallimore, Thanks you for your correspondence of May 25, 2017 concerning the Deep Geologic Repository for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste Project (the Project) proposed by Ontario Power Generation (the proponent). Your message raises concerns about potential earthquakes and hydrocarbon fracking. First, we would like to draw your attention to the project file on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency’s (the Agency) registry, reference number 17520. The registry is the primary source of information pertaining to the project to date, and it is updated on an ongoing basis. To provide context, we would like to note that the Project’s environmental assessment was referred to a review panel in June 2007 and the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) submitted by the proponent in April 2011 (Registry record 298). The Joint Review Panel (JRP) was established in January 2012 (Registry record 318) and its Report released in May 2015 (Registry record 2205); following a six-month public review period, over 30 days of public hearings, and a thorough review of the proponent’s EIS. The overall conclusion from the Joint Review Panel is that the Project is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects, taking into account the implementation of the mitigation measures committed to by the proponent, with the mitigation measures recommended by the Panel. Of most relevance to your concerns, Chapter 13 of the JRP Report provides ...

Attachment From Natalie Gallimore to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (NOTE: Updated June 20, 2017)

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3782
• Submitted: 2017-05-25
• From Natalie Gallimore to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (NOTE: Updated June 20, 2017)
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• From: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs [CEAA\ACEE] Sent: June 20, 2017 2:03 PM To: Natalie Gallimore Subject: RE: OPG's Deep Geologic Repository (DGP) - comments on the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste Dear Ms. Gallimore, Thank you for your correspondence of June 15, 2017. In completing its review, the Joint Review Panel was satisfied with the level of detail regarding hydrocarbon extraction and risks related to fracking by the proponent, participants, and expert federal authorities. The Joint Review Panel also issued the recommendations noted previously to manage potential residual risks. Based on the work conducted by the Joint Review Panel and its recommendations, the Agency would not require further investigation on this topic as part of the environmental assessment for the Project. We note that additional regulatory requirements apply to the proposed Project. In order to obtain more information on precise activities required to address the Joint Review Panel’s recommendations and beyond, we encourage you to participate in the licensing process that would be required should the Project proceed. In that case, a licence for preparation and construction would be completed by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. A licence to operate would later be required, prior to placement of any waste, at which time a question such as yours would further inform the process during public hearings. For specific licensing questions, you may contact Ms. Karina Lange at the Wastes and Decommissioning Division of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (karina.lange@canada.ca). You may also contact the ...

Attachment From City of Algonac, Michigan to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Resolution Opposing the Construction of a Nuclear Waste Repository in the Great Lakes Basin

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3791
• Submitted: 2017-05-24
• From City of Algonac, Michigan to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Resolution Opposing the Construction of a Nuclear Waste Repository in the Great Lakes Basin
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• CITY OF ALGONAC RESOLUTION# 2017-04-18a RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY IN THE GREAT LAKES BASIN WHEREAS, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is proposing to construct a deep geologic repository (DGR) which is an underground long-term burial facility for all of Ontario low and intermediate level radioactive nuclear waste at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, some of which is highly radioactive and will remain toxic for over 100,000 years. This site is approximately one kilometer inland from the shore of Lake Huron and about 400 metres below the lake level; WHEREAS, water is the nation's and Canada's most important natural resource and should be protected and managed prudently; and WHEREAS, the Great Lakes are an irreplaceable natural resource, containing twenty percent of the worlds and nine- five percent of the United States' fresh water vital to human and environmental health; WHEREAS the Great Lakes are vital to the economic and agricultural well-being of both Canada and the United States of America WHEREAS, Lake Huron and the connecting waters, including Lake St. Clair, are a source of drinking water for millions of people downstream in the United States of America, Canada and First Nations; WHEREAS, concern has been expressed over the proposed OPG DGR by individuals, citizen and environmental groups, and municipalities and counties in both Canada and the United States; WHEREAS under the 2012 Protocol Amending the Agreement Between Canada and the United States of America on Great Lakes Water Quality, the governments of the unites States and Canada acknowledge the importance of anticipation, preventing and responding to threats to the waters of the Great ...

Attachment From SOS Great Lakes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Correspondence regarding the Public Review Process for Ontario Power Generation's Response to Additional Information Requested (NOTE: Updated Correspondence June 26, 2017)

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3781
• Submitted: 2017-05-23
• From SOS Great Lakes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Correspondence regarding the Public Review Process for Ontario Power Generation's Response to Additional Information Requested (NOTE: Updated Correspondence June 26, 2017)
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• From: Jill Taylor Sent: June 25, 2017 1:03 PM To: Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAA\ACEE] Cc: Subject: Re: Questions from SOS Great Lakes Regarding Timeline for CEAA Draft Report Thank you so very much for your responses to our questions. Sincerely, Jill Taylor President SOS Great Lakes Sent from my iPhone On Jun 21, 2017, at 11:52 AM, Deep Geologic Repository Project/ Projet de stockage de déchets radioactifs[CEAAACEE] <CEAA.DGR.Project-Projet.DGR.ACEE@ceaa-acee.gc.ca> wrote: June 21, 2017 Dear Ms. Taylor, Thank you for your correspondence of June 16, 2017 concerning the Deep Geologic Repository Project’s environmental assessment process and timeline. Please find below our responses to the questions that you submitted in your electronic letter. Question 1 • SOS Great Lakes: Will the CEAA issue a response to OPG’s Responses on or before June 26, 2017? • Agency: The response to OPG will be sent out on June 26th at the latest. The exact date of issue for this letter will depend on the time required for drafting and approval of the response within the Agency. Question 2 • SOS Great Lakes: Will the next response from CEAA constitute the ‘CEAA Draft Report’? • Agency: The response that will be issued by the Agency will not constitute the ‘CEAA Draft Report’. The Agency will provide a brief letter to the proponent informing them of the next steps in the environmental assessment process for the Project. Question 3 • SOS Great Lakes: Approximately when may we expect that the ‘CEAA Draft Report’ will be available for review? • Agency: The release of the draft report for review is planned for Summer 2017. ...

Attachment From Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump Incorporated to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Correspondence regarding the Public Review Process for Ontario Power Generation's Response to Additional Information Requested

• Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
• Author: Administration
• Reference number: 3780
• Submitted: 2017-05-19
• From Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump Incorporated to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency re: Correspondence regarding the Public Review Process for Ontario Power Generation's Response to Additional Information Requested
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• 160 Elgin St., 22nd floor 160, rue Elgin, 22e étage Ottawa ON K1A 0H3 Ottawa ON K1A 0H3 www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca www.acee-ceaa.gc.ca ELECTRONIC MAIL May 24, 2017 Beverly Fernandez Spokesperson and Founding Member Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump Inc 3-304 Stone Road West, Suite 185 Guelph, ON N1G 4W4 Dear Ms. Fernandez: Thank you for your letter of May 19, 2017, concerning Ontario Power Generation’s Deep Geologic Repository for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste Project. On September 7, 2016, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change informed the proponent that the Agency would undertake the review of the additional information, assisted by federal authorities, in an open and transparent process, including opportunities for participation by the public and Indigenous groups. In keeping with this direction, the Agency has used a process for the review of the additional information that is reflective of the extensive consultation and analysis completed by the Joint Review Panel and the current standard process for environmental assessments managed by the Agency. This process was outlined in the estimated timeline posted on the registry on January 3, 2017 (CEAR # 2884). On April 5, 2017, after taking into consideration the comments received during the technical review and advice from federal departments, the Agency requested further information the proponent. The responses to the information requests will be submitted by the proponent on May 26, 2017. As stated previously, the Agency is using the current process for environmental assessments by the Agency to manage the Deep Geologic Repository Project, therefore, a 30-day public comment ...