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AIR

PROJECTS ACTIVITY TYPE

DELIVERY AGENT BUDGET

Existing: WBEA Ambient Air Monitoring WBEA $ 8,598,342

Existing: LICA - Continuous Monitoring Program LICA $ 460,000

Existing: LICA - Integrated VOC/PAH Monitoring Program LICA $ 312,000

Existing: WBEA Forest Health Monitoring WBEA $ 319,400

Existing: WBEA Instrumented Meteorological Towers - Meteorological monitoring

WBEA $ 135,000

Changes to Existing: Changes to the Existing WBEA Ambient Monitoring Program - Mobile monitoring unit, and new monitoring required by approvals (AMS19 (Firebag), AMS20 (Brion Energy))

WBEA $ 192,000

Changes to Existing: CAPMoN - Accelerated Expansion - Instrument installation at site in Flat Valley, Saskatchewan

EC $ 72,000

Expansion of Geographic Scope: Southern Wood Buffalo Monitoring Plan (Capital)

WBEA $ 592,000

Expansion of Geographic Scope: Southern Wood Buffalo Monitoring Plan (Operating) WBEA $ 531,000

CAPMoN: Enhanced Measurements of Nitrogen and Sulphur Species at Ecosystem/Transformation Sites EC $ 375,000

Enhanced Air Quality Measurement at Existing WBEA Sites EC $ 495,000

Monitoring Pollutant Transformation - Monitoring at ground-based site EC $ 555,000

Monitoring Pollutant Transformation - Data analysis of ground-based and airborn measurements EC $ 550,000

Ground Based Remote Sensing - LiDAR EC $ 165,000

WBEA Odour Monitoring (Human Exposure Monitoring Program) WBEA $ 463,455

LICA Beaver River Valley Air Quality/Visibility Monitoring Project LICA $ 70,000

Ground Based Remote Sensing - Odour and VOC monitoring using Open Path Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (OP-FTIR) in communities in the Oil Sands Region

AEMERA $90,000

Traditional Ecological Knowledge Berry Health Indicator WBEA $ 265,000

Remote Ozone Monitoring (at existing Forest Health sites) WBEA $ 70,000

Modeling to Integrate Data (Deposition Modeling) EC $ 424,000

Satellite Monitoring Workshop AEMERA $ 25,000

Source Characterization Workshop AEMERA $ 100,000

Total Budget $ 14,859,197

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING IN THE OIL SANDS: 2015-2016 WORK PLAN PROJECTS SUMMARY TABLE

BIODIVERSITY

PROJECTS ACTIVITY TYPE

DELIVERY AGENT BUDGET

Core Monitoring: Biodiversity Monitoring ABMI/U of A $ 5,155,940

Core Monitoring: Ungulate Monitoring AEMERA/EP $ 400,000

Species at Risk and Rare / Difficult Species Monitoring: Caribou Monitoring

AEMERA/EP $ 400,000

Status and trend monitoring of listed, rare, and difficult-to-monitor landbirds

EC/ABMI $ 448,400

Footprint and Vegetation Monitoring: Human Footprint Monitoring

ABMI $ 225,000

Cause-Effects Monitoring: Biodiversity Response to Human Disturbance

ABMI $ 200,000

Cause-Effects Monitoring: Barred Owl Monitoring AEMERA/EP $ 50,000

Cause Effects Assessment of Oil Sands Activity on Migratory Landbirds

EC $ 506,000

Cause-Effects Monitoring: Whooping Crane Monitoring EC $ 65,000

Cause-Effects Monitoring: Waterfowl Monitoring EC/DUC $ 340,000

Biodiversity-Habitat Enhanced Monitoring: Enhanced Vegetation Mapping ABMI $ 248,000

Wetland Monitoring Program Development ABMI $ 200,000

Sub-Total $ 8,238,340

WILDLIFE HEALTH

PROJECTS ACTIVITY TYPE

DELIVERY AGENT BUDGET

Assessing the Impact of Oil Sands Development on Aquatic Birds EC $ 168,000

Wetland and Amphibian Health EC $ 412,783

Avian Health: Field Exposure and Effects from Air Emissions EC $ 55,000

Hunter/Trapper Harvested Wildlife Contaminants and Toxicology EC $ 207,672

Plant Health and Contaminants in the Oil Sands EC $ 55,000

Sub-Total $ 898, 455

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DEPOSITION PROJECTS PACKAGE

PROJECTS ACTIVITY TYPE

DELIVERY AGENT BUDGET

Existing: LICA - Passive Monitoring Program LICA

$ 3,200,000

Existing: WBEA Passive Monitoring WBEA

Existing: LICA - Soil Acidification Monitoring Program LICA

Existing: Ecosystem Exposure Monitoring (existing) - Passive air monitoring of polycyclic aromatic compounds EC

Existing: Enhanced Deposition - Installation of enhanced suite of measurements and sample analysis EC

Changes to Existing: WBEA Enhanced Deposition - Capital and operations of enhanced deposition sites WBEA

Dry Deposition Monitoring (at existing Forest Health sites) WBEA

Improvements to Modeling to Integrate Data (Deposition Modeling) EC

Atmospheric Deposition to Lakes and Snowpack Monitoring EC

Sub-Total $ 3,200,000*

TOTAL $ 49,940,553*

WATER

PROJECTS ACTIVITY TYPE

DELIVERY AGENT BUDGET

Hydrometric Network AEMERA/EC

(WSC)$ 2,900,000

Water Quality MonitoringAEMERA/EC

(WSC)$ 6,000,000

Benthic Macro-Invertebrate Monitoring EC/AEMERA $ 2,200,000

Wild Fish Health Monitoring EC/AEMERA $ 1,200,000

Deltaic Ecosystem Health Monitoring EC $ 400,000

Acid-Sensitive Lakes Monitoring EC/AEMERA $ 200,000

Regional Groundwater Monitoring - Development of a comprehensive groundwater monitoring program in oil sands

AEMERA/EC $ 200,000

Groundwater/Surface Water Interactions EC $ 100,000

Data Integration, Synthesis and Reporting (Water Program-wide) EC/AEMERA $ 1,275,000

Modeling - Regional hydrology / climatology EC/AEMERA $ 240,000

Water Quality Semi-Permeable Membrane Device Approaches EC $ 90,000

Expanded Tributary Fish Inventory Program EC/AEMERA $ 163,000

Initial Project Scoping for Sampling within the Peace Oil Sands Area EC/AEMERA $ 55,000

Initial Project Scoping for Sampling within the Southern Oil Sands Area EC/AEMERA $ 65,000

Status of River Fish EC/AEMERA

$ 475,000Contaminant Monitoring in Fish in the Oil Sands Region EC/AEMERA

Community-based Monitoring - Fish EC/AEMERA

Water Methodologies EC/AEMERA $ 200,000

Total Budget $ 15,763,000

ABMI Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute

CAPMoN The Canadian Air and Precipitation Monitoring Network

DUC Ducks Unlimited Canada

EC Environment Canada

EP Environment and Parks

LICA Lakeland Industry and Community Association

PAH Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

VOC Volatile Organic Compounds

WBEA Wood Buffalo Environmental Association

WSC Water Survey of Canada

CROSS-CUTTING

PROJECTS DELIVERY AGENT BUDGET

Communications, Engagement and Participation AEMERA/

ABMI/WBEA/LICA

$ 1,045,000

Program Management AEMERA $ 1,565,439

Technical Design Coordination AEMERA $ 200,000

Data Management AEMERA $ 1,000,000

Standards and Protocols AEMERA $ 200,000

Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Capacity Building AEMERA $ 593,000

Sub-Total $ 4,603,439

Long-Term

Focused Studies

New and Emerging

Activity Type:Acronyms

* Includes GST

*Total budget allocated for monitoring activities related to deposition of pollutants from the atmosphere to the environment

The 2015-2016 work plan was developed under a joint planning process with Environment Canada.