Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes. Right now, in terms of the devolved sites that we had when we first got all of those, we were at about 700. We have worked in terms of going through all of those projects to assess in terms of remediation of any of those contaminated sites. Right now when we look at our devolution agreement, part C, in excepted waste sites, we currently have five excepted waste sites. That's Ptarmigan, Tom, Crestaurum, Burwash, Rodstrom, and Tin Mines. As well, under the devolution agreement, part E, in operating sites, we have a total of seven operating sites. In terms of other waste sites, we have eight other sites that are part of the devolution agreement. We have two staff in this area who oversee all of that and then have an ongoing listing of all of those waste sites, the work completed, and, as well, kind of the next steps. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. In looking at all of the waste sites, what we have to do is come up with a determination of whether or not there is still remediation work that needs to be completed and whether we are agreeable to the amount. We work with the federal government to determine those sites. Where we have questions, we go back to them, and we work with our colleagues, in terms of providing technical support, with Lands and ourselves, to be able to come up with whether or not we feel that we have the money that is negotiated for the remediation of these sites. For a lot of them that we review, we have the opportunity to be able to say that we feel that we have enough money to be able to remediate this site, or we don't. If we don't, then we go back, and we negotiate with the federal government to be able to get the appropriate money to clean those up. Again, we do that with our colleagues in the Department of Lands, and if we do the negotiation, then we do it in Executive and Indigenous Affairs. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. You are right. In terms of looking at the $319,000, that is really the O and M and the program management to look at all of these files. As we go through and we determine contaminated sites, the other part that this group does is actually look at the coordination and seeing that the remediation done is done per our standards. The funds that actually backstop all of this are in the environmental fund within Finance. That is a $50-million fund that we have access to in order to do remediation projects. For the money that we initially negotiated with the federal government, when we look at contaminated sites, we need to assess how much it is going to cost to remediate. Then our departmental staff will oversee third parties that would come in and do the remediation to our standards. Once that is completed, then that remediation site is then deemed cleaned up. Really, the $319,000 is just the operation and the management of all of these sites.

As I said earlier, we have five accepted waste sites. We have seven operating sites and eight sites that are a part of the devolution agreement that we are currently working on right now. We have a deadline to the end of March to report on where we feel that some of those are in the queue and whether or not we have enough money for them, and we continue to negotiate with the federal government. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Yes, that is correct. Thanks.

Agreed.