Bill C-27

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	SUMMARY
	This enactment implements a key component of the Government of Canada's 1996 Policy Framework for Radioactive Waste - that the federal government, through effective oversight, would ensure that the long-term management of radioactive waste is carried out in a comprehensive, integrated and economically sound manner. The key elements of the enactment include
	(a) requiring the major owners of nuclear fuel waste to establish a waste management organization (referred to in this Summary as the ``WMO'') to carry out the managerial, financial and operational activities to implement the long-term management of nuclear fuel waste;
	(b) requiring the major owners of nuclear fuel waste to establish trust funds and to make annual payments into those trust funds to finance the long-term management of nuclear fuel waste; and
	(c) authorizing the Governor in Council to make a decision on the choice of approach for long-term management of nuclear fuel waste for Canada to be implemented by the WMO.
	The enactment also requires that the WMO carry out public consultations, that the WMO's study and reports (which are submitted to the Minister) be made public, that the WMO establish an Advisory Council, whose comments on the WMO's study and reports are made public, and that the Minister make public statements on all of the WMO's reports.