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<br />mailing. Since you've already read that, I'm not <br />going to go into detail on it, unless the Board <br />has some questions. <br />In the regulatory side of it, Bruce Humphries has <br />a number of citations that he's reviewed, but I <br />wanted to go quickly through just a couple of <br />citations from the Regulations; specifically, Rule <br />4.16.1(4)(a) that states that in order to obtain <br />release, operators must satisfy requirements of <br />the reclamation plan, in accordance with the Rules <br />and with the Act. And, paramount in the <br />requirements to reclaim in accordance with the Act <br />is satisfaction of the performance standards that <br />are spelled out in Section 116 of the Act and in <br />Rule 3 of the Regulations, and the groundwater <br />regulations are included in the performance <br />standards of Rule 3. So, in addition to <br />implementing the approved reclamation plan, <br />operators also have to reclaim in accordance with <br />the performance standards, the groundwater <br />regulations being one of those performance <br />standards. And, it's the Division's view that the <br />requirement that potentially affected groundwater <br />at the Bulldog Mine being characterized will <br />facilitate the operator's required demonstration <br />that existing and potential future beneficial uses <br />of groundwater are protected. That is a <br />14 <br />