NORTHERN AFFAIRS PROGRAM CONTAMINATED SITES PROGRAM PERFORMANCE REPORT 2002 – 2003 December 2003 NAP Contaminated Sites Program Performance Report December 2003 Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ....................................................................................................................I TABLE OF FIGURES..................................................................................................................... 1 MANAGEMENT STATEMENT ......................................................................................................... 1 PROFILE OF NAP CONTAMINATED SITES PROGRAM.................................................................... 2 VISION ........................................................................................................................................ 2 NAP CONTAMINATED SITES MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE ................................................... 2 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT .................................................................................................. 4 OBJECTIVES ...........................................................................................................................4 PROGRESS ACHIEVED ...........................................................................................................4 Policy and Legal Obligations .........................................................................................4 Management.....................................................................................................................5 Priority Sites .....................................................................................................................7 Financials ..........................................................................................................................9 Social and Economic Benefits .....................................................................................13 Polluter Pays ..................................................................................................................18 FUTURE DIRECTIONS ................................................................................................................ 18 LIST OF ACRONYMS………………………………………………………………………………20 Figures and Tables Figure 1: Map of Priority Sites ................................................................................................. 3 Figure 2: CSP Governance Structure...................................................................................... 3 Figure 3: CSP Performance Highlights ................................................................................... 4 Table 1: Number of Contaminated and Physical Hazard Sites, 2003 .................................... 6 Table 2: CCME Classification of Sites, 2003 .......................................................................... 7 Table 3: Current Status of Priority Class 1 Sites, 2003........................................................... 8 Table 4: Expenditures by Region, 1991 – 2003...................................................................... 9 Table 5: Expenditures by Site, 2001 – 03 ............................................................................. 10 Figure 4: Proportion of Expenditures by Site, 2002 – 03 ...................................................... 11 Table 6: Requested vs. Allocated vs. Spent Funds, 2002 – 03............................................ 11 Figure 5: Budget Forecast by Activity, 2003 – 04 ................................................................. 12 Table 7: Liability by Region, 2001 – 03 ................................................................................. 13 Table 8: Regional Proportion of Liability, 2001 – 03 ............................................................. 13 Table 9: Training by Type and Site, 2002– 03 ...................................................................... 14 Indian and Northern Affairs Canada i NAP Contaminated Sites Program Performance Report December 2003 Management Statement We are pleased to introduce our second We accomplished many of the priorities we set Performance Report. In the pages that follow, out to achieve last year, such as: you will read about the environmental, health and safety, and community relations’ practices · approval of the INAC Contaminated Sites of the Northern Affairs Program (NAP), Policy; Contaminated Sites Program (CSP). To better · approval of the NAP Contaminated Sites understand our progress, the report is Management Framework; enhanced by many charts and numbers that · continued care and maintenance at quantify our performance. Examples of the high-priority contaminated sites; commitment and initiative of the employees, · training delivered to increase the contractors and suppliers who support the consistent use of the inventory database; CSP are also provided. and · continued progress at priority sites. We have taken significant steps to reduce the risk to human and environmental health and While proud of our accomplishments, we also liability associated with the contaminated sites recognize areas of continued challenge, such we manage. We have also made positive as: economic and social contributions to the communities in the North where our sites are · fully integrating the Contaminated Sites located. Our program spent approximately $37 Management Framework into operations, million during the year and achieved a number and; of results at priority sites, including: · addressing all issues identified in Office of the OAG audits. · ongoing care and maintenance at 5 sites; · site assessment work at 9 sites; This Performance Report gives readers an in- · consultations at 4 sites; depth perspective on CSP’s achievements · remediation work at 6 sites; and over the past year, as well as on its goals for · site monitoring at 19 sites. the years to come. A list of acronyms can be found at the end of the report. To ensure We continue to work toward further site continued improvement, I invite readers to remediation and reductions in human and provide comments and feedback on this 1 environmental health risks and liability, as well report. Thank you for your interest in our as work with community members who live or program. work near the sites we manage. The 2002-2003 fiscal year was a time of change and challenge for our program . We continued to work towards securing stable funding to support the CSP. We were encouraged by the Finance Minister’s announcement in the February 2003 budget of the Federal Contaminated Sites Accelerated Liseanne Forand Action Plan. Also, the Office of the Auditor Assistant Deputy Minister General of Canada (OAG) audit results made Northern Affairs Program a number of recommendations that the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada program will be addressing in the next fiscal year. December 17, 2003 CSP staff continued to apply their dedication and resourcefulness to accomplishing the program’s objectives. 1 Please see the end of the report for contact information. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada 1 NAP Contaminated Sites Program Performance Report December 2003 DEVOLUTION Devolution of responsibilities to the Yukon Territorial Government (YTG) is scheduled for April 1, 2003. The Yukon Devolution Transfer This report presents the results of Indian and Agreement (DTA) specifies that the YTG has a Northern Affairs Canada’s Northern significant role in managing the large, abandoned mines in Yukon, but also stipulates federal Contaminated Sites Program in Canada’s funding commitments to address these territorial three territories for the period April 1, 2002, to contaminated sites. Over the reporting period, March 31, 2003. This second Performance INAC and YTG have been working closely Report focuses on CS P’s performance over together to define roles and responsibilities and the past year. For more historical and reporting relationships. contextual information about our program, please refer to our web site at www.ainc- inac.gc.ca/ps/nap/consit/ index_e.html or our first report can be viewed at www.ainc - inac.gc.ca/ps/nap/consit/ Vision 1csrep0102_e.html. he vision of the CSP is to: T Profile of NAP …manage contaminated sites in a cost- effective and consistent manner, to reduce Contaminated Sites and eliminate, where possible, risk to human and environmental health and liability Program associated with contaminated sites. How CSP achieves this vision and its strategic s custodian of most federal lands in the A commitments is reported in the following North, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada sections of this Performance Report. (INAC) manages abandoned contaminated properties in the three territories. Many of the contaminated properties in the Northwest Territories (NWT), Yukon and Nunavut are a NAP Contaminated result of private sector mining, oil and gas activities and former government military Sites Management and activities. In the NWT, the major sites include mines and military sites. In Yukon, the focus is Governance on mining properties and in Nunavut, the focus is on military sites. Figure 1 on the next page Overall responsibility for the CSP rests with illustrates the locations of priority sites in the Deputy Minister, INAC, and the Assistant Canada’s North. Deputy Minister, NAP. Key decisions are supported through a committee process in four CSP currently has a dedicated team of 19 staff separate bodies. Figure 2 illustrates the roles members, located at INAC headquarters in and relationships of the principal governing Gatineau,