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

This participant funding opportunity is open from September 16 to November 15, 2024.

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.

To apply, please submit a participant funding application form. Certain terms and conditions apply. You can submit the form by:

Email: pfp@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca

Mail: Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
c/o Participant Funding Program Administrator
280 Slater St
PO Box 1046 Stn B
Ottawa ON  K1P 5S9

Fax: 613-995-5086

Deadline for submitting a participant funding application: November 15, 2024

A funding review committee will consider all applications for funding and make recommendations on the allocation of funds.

For information on how to participate, consult the Participate in a public Commission hearing and Participant Funding Program sections of the CNSC website.

For questions about this specific funding opportunity, please contact:
Participant Funding Program Administrator
613-415-2814
pfp@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca