BILL C-27

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

SHORT TITLE

INTERPRETATION

(a) Ontario Power Generation Inc., Hydro-Québec, New Brunswick Power Corporation, and any other body that owns nuclear fuel waste resulting from the production of electricity by means of a commercial nuclear reactor;

(b) any successor or assignee of a corporation mentioned in paragraph (a); and

(c) any assignee of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, being the company incorporated or acquired pursuant to subsection 10(2) of the Atomic Energy Control Act, chapter A-19 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1970.

PURPOSE OF ACT

APPLICATION OF ACT

WASTE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION

(a) propose to the Government of Canada approaches for the management of nuclear fuel waste; and

(b) implement the approach that is selected under section 15 or is approved under subsection 20(5).

(a) Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, and

(b) all owners of nuclear fuel waste produced in Canada that are neither members nor shareholders of the waste management organization

(a) examine the study referred to in subsection 12(1) and the triennial reports referred to in section 18 that are to be submitted to the Minister; and

(b) give written comments on that study and those reports to the waste management organization.

(a) reflects a broad range of scientific and technical disciplines related to the management of nuclear fuel waste;

(b) reflects expertise, in matters of nuclear energy,

(i) in public affairs, and

(ii) as needed, in other social sciences; and

(c) includes representatives nominated by local and regional governments and aboriginal organizations that are affected because their economic region is specified for the approach that the Governor in Council selects under section 15 or approves under subsection 20(5).

FINANCING

(a) Ontario Power Generation Inc., $500,000,000;

(b) Hydro-Québec, $20,000,000;

(c) New Brunswick Power Corporation, $20,000,000; and

(d) Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, $10,000,000.

(a) Ontario Power Generation Inc., $100,000,000;

(b) Hydro-Québec, $4,000,000;

(c) New Brunswick Power Corporation, $4,000,000; and

(d) Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, $2,000,000.

STUDY BY WASTE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION

(a) its proposed approaches for the management of nuclear fuel waste, along with the comments of the Advisory Council on those approaches; and

(b) its recommendation as to which of its proposed approaches should be adopted.

(a) deep geological disposal in the Canadian Shield, based on the concept described by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited in the Environmental Impact Statement on the Concept for Disposal of Canada's Nuclear Fuel Waste and taking into account the views of the environmental assessment panel set out in the Report of the Nuclear Fuel Waste Management and Disposal Concept Environmental Assessment Panel dated February 1998;

(b) storage at nuclear reactor sites; and

(c) centralized storage, either above or below ground.

(a) a description of activities;

(b) a timetable for carrying out the approach;

(c) the means that the waste management organization plans to use to avoid or minimize significant socio-economic effects on a community's way of life or on its social, cultural or economic aspirations; and

(d) a program for public consultation.

(a) the estimated total cost of management of nuclear fuel waste, which must take into account natural or other events that have a reasonable probability of occurring;

(b) the estimated rate of return on the trust funds maintained under subsection 9(1);

(c) the life expectancy of the nuclear reactors of each nuclear energy corporation and of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited; and

(d) the estimated amounts to be received from owners of nuclear fuel waste, other than nuclear energy corporations and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, in return for services of management of nuclear fuel waste.