Participant funding for Ontario Power Generation’s application to amend the waste facility operating licence for the Pickering Waste Management Facility

Status

This participant funding opportunity is now closed, and funding has been approved.

Participant funding notice

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) will conduct a hearing based on written submissions in winter 2025. The hearing is to consider an application from Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to amend the Class IB waste facility operating licence for the Pickering Waste Management Facility (PWMF) to authorize the construction and operation of a new facility to be known as the Pickering Component Storage Structure. The structure would be used to store low- and intermediate-level waste from future Pickering Nuclear Generating Station (PNGS) decommissioning activities and from proposed refurbishment activities for PNGS Units 5 to 8. The PWMF is located on the PNGS site in Pickering, Ontario, on the traditional lands and waters of the Michi Saagiig Anishinaabeg, and the territories covered by the Gunshot Treaty and the Williams Treaties First Nations.

The CNSC is offering participant funding to assist Indigenous Nations and communities, members of the public, and interested parties in reviewing OPG’s application and associated documents, and in participating in the Commission hearing process by providing topic-specific interventions in writing to the Commission.

Up to $75,000 in participant funding will be disbursed among all eligible applicants for the provision of new, distinctive and valuable information through informed and topic-specific interventions to the Commission. Funding will be awarded for the review of documentation, including CNSC staff’s documents and OPG’s Commission member documents, and for the submission of interventions in writing to the Commission.

Participant funding decision

A funding review committee (FRC) was established to review the funding applications received by the CNSC’s PFP administrator and to make recommendations on the allocation of funding to eligible applicants.

The CNSC carefully considered the committee’s FRC’s recommendations on the allocation of participant funding and approved the reimbursement of up to $51,920 to the following recipients:

Applicant	CNSC approved funding
Canadian Association of Nuclear Host Communities (CANHC)	$17,000
Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation (MSIFN)	$26,450
Curve Lake First Nation (CLFN)	$8,470
Total:	$51,920

Eligibility and funding criteria

For more information on participant funding and how it works, including details on eligibility and funding criteria, please read the PFP guide.

Contact information

Participant Funding Program Administrator
613-415-2814
pfp@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca