Mr. Speaker, in order to qualify as local, a company fills out an application with the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development with the BIP office. When they fill that out, it is either accepted or rejected.

If it is accepted, then they become registered as local for that community in which they have applied. Then, when a contract is tendered and the results analyzed, the Department of Transportation would look at the registry and see who is registered as local for that particular contract. They would go back to the BIP registry to determine it. Thank you.