Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI)
Port Granby Project
Remediation of Buried Low Level Radioactive

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Nature of Requirements: 
Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI)
Port Granby Project 
Remediation of Buried Low Level Radioactive Waste and
Construction of a new Long Term Waste Management Facility, in
Clarington, Ontario

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UPDATE NOTIFICATION TO INTERESTED CONTRACTORS

This Notice Amendment is raised to provide interested
Contractors with the information presented at the Information
Session held on Industry Day in Cobourg, Ontario, Wednesday,
February 27, 2013.  In addition, this notice portal will also
serve to provide additional updates regarding this project.

THIS  LETTER OF INTEREST IS EXTENDED ON MERX TO 30 SEPTEMBER
2013.

Introduction        
The intent of this letter is to provide interested Contractors
with advance notice of an upcoming tender for a large
multi-year, multi-million dollar, complex environmental
remediation contract in Port Granby, Municipality of Clarington,
Ontario, Canada. 

The Port Granby Project involves the cleanup of buried historic
low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) and industrial waste located
at Port Granby Waste Management Facility (PGWMF) and the
eventual safe containment of those materials within a new
engineered, aboveground long-term waste management facility
(LTWMF) to be constructed as per the upcoming contract.  The
containment system is to be built at a distance of approximately
700 m north of the existing waste burial area, all on federal
lands but separated by Lakeshore Road.   There is approximately
500,000 metric tons of waste that will need to be excavated,
handled, transported and appropriately placed in the new LTWMF.

Low Level Radioactive materials and associated wastes from
refining radium and uranium were produced at a refinery operated
in Port Hope by Eldorado Gold Mines Limited from 1930-1960.
Process residues and wastes were placed at various locations
throughout the community and used as a source of fill material
for construction and landscaping activities.  A portion of these
wastes were deposited in Port Granby; and therefore remediation
of this site involves the removal and safe transportation of the
wastes to a newly constructed proper containment facility.
The Project is led and sponsored by Natural Resources Canada
(NRCan) who is committed to the cleanup and safe management of
the waste through the Port Hope Area Initiative Management
Office (PHAIMO).  In 2009, the PHAIMO was formed with NRCan,
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) and Public Works and
Government Services Canada (PWGSC) to carry the project to
completion.

*For more information on the PHAI, please visit:
http://phai.ca/en/phai

LTWMF and Site Remediation
The Port Granby Project has engaged AECOM for the design and
construction oversight/contract administration of the major
construction work.  The Project is broken down into two (2) main
elements of work, the construction of the new LTWMF and
remediation of the existing PGWMF.  The LTWMF element will
create a long-term low-level radioactive waste management
facility and includes the construction of an engineered
containment mound, ancillary facilities, storm water management
works, civil site servicing, transportation route upgrades
(completed) and construction and operation  of a new wastewater
treatment plant(work will start early 2013).  The PGWMF element
will address the transfer of the contaminated materials to the
new facility, leachate and drainage water management including
runoff interception and groundwater collector system, and
eventual decommissioning of the existing water treatment system.
 A description of work is provided   below for the LTWMF and the
PGWNF.

Construction of the New LTWMF
Containment Mound
The containment mound will consist of two adjoining and
contiguous cells of the same size. The overall mound dimensions
are 410 metres by 230 metres.  Each cell will have a highly
engineered multilayer base of natural and composite liner
system, leachate collection system and a multi-layer final cover
system.  The final cover will minimize moisture infiltration
into waste and hence minimize leachate generation.  The base
liner system is a composite liner based on an 80 mil (2 mm)
thick High density Polyethylene (HDPE) geomembrane on top of a
750 mm thick imported natural clay liner with a design hydraulic
conductivity of not more than 1 x 10-7 cm/s.  On top of the
composite base liner system is a drainage system that will
facilitate monitoring, collection, and removal of leachate.  

Civil Site Services
The Civil Site servicing component encompasses infrastructure
including the underpass at Lakeshore Road ( cast-in-place twin
concrete box tunnels), new permanent and temporary on-site
access roadways at the LTWMF  and the PGWMF) and routing for
utilities.

Transportation Route Upgrade
The transportation component includes site roadways designated
for the haulage of waste material, clean fill and site roadways
designated for traffic circulation through the LTWMF site. The
Transportation component also includes the element of road work
on Lakeshore Road necessary to accommodate the planned underpass
structure linking the site haul roadways of the new LTWMF to the
PGWMF.  The pavement structure of the permanent roadways will be
hard-surface treatment in order to facilitate regular
maintenance activities, such as road sweeping/washing to manage
debris and dust.  This work is now completed.


Remediation of Port Granby Waste Management facility
Site Preparation
The utility relocation plan will involve the identification and
moving of existing onsite buried utilities from within the waste
burial areas prior to the commencement of waste excavation
activities to allow for continued service of these lines during
waste removal.  Furthermore, there are 73 monitoring wells in
close proximity to proposed excavation zone, which will be
decommissioned in accordance with Ontario Regulation 128
(amendment to O. Reg. 903).
Clearing and grubbing of deciduous and some mixed forest as well
as grubbing these areas and meadow vegetation overlying existing
waste will  be completed in the areas proposed for waste
excavation as part of site preparation activities. Clearing of
vegetation will be restricted to the area/extent necessary to
achieve adequate access to LLRW and underlying marginally
contaminated soils (MCS).

The Site Preparation will also include: establishment of
material stockpile or lay-down areas as well as parking areas.

Excavation Method
The remediation at the PGWMF is envisioned to be undertaken by
an overall progression of remedial excavation in an easterly
direction, across the site (barring a few exceptions i.e. the
East and West Reservoirs; treatment lagoons and the complexity
of remedial excavation in the East Gorge Wastes that may
possibly be excavated in strips oriented in the south to north
direction).  Depending on the type and nature of waste materials
buried in specific locations of the site, it is envisioned that
a pre-planning of excavation sequence will be required to avoid
mixing of chemically incompatible wastes as well as restrictions
related to material size or consistency (i.e. expect bulky
metals, powder, toothpaste and/or peanut butter like materials).

In addition, a slope stability analysis indicated that the waste
fill in the East Gorge may become unstable if cut slopes are too
steep and/or too deep.  The analysis provides some suggested
insights regarding excavation procedures, excavation sequences
and required setback distances for equipment.

Water Management
It is expected that a fair portion of the waste excavation will
be below the local ground water table, and thus dewatering will
be required throughout the excavation process.  Impacted
groundwater may be managed using temporary berms and submersible
pumps. The contractor is responsible to ensure that all impacted
groundwater entering the excavation is managed accordingly and
diverted to either the collection reservoirs in the West and
East gorges or the Treatment Lagoons as necessary.

The strategy for managing storm water generated within the
active waste excavation areas will possibly involve diverting
runoff from areas where remediation activities have been
completed towards either of the perimeter ditches along the east
and west boundaries. 

Once the new waste water treatment plant is commissioned and
licensed, the existing water treatment plant will be
decommissioned as part of the site cleanup work. 
Decommissioning of the plant will likely involve the following
four steps:
·	Draining of the sedimentation and treatment lagoons
·	Removal and disposal of  the accumulated sludge from the
lagoons;
·	Removal and disposal of  contaminated soils from around and
beneath the lagoons(if any); and
·	Demolishing and removing exiting building and equipment.

In accordance with the overall project objectives and guiding
principles, the successful Contractor will be required to
develop and submit a number of key plans that will be
instrumental in monitoring the safe and environmentally sound
performance of the work activities through out the duration of
the contract.  A few of these plans are outlined in the
following paragraphs. 

Environmental 
Developed in accordance with the contract specifications, the
overall objective of an Environmental Protection Plan (EPP) is
to outline the protocols and procedures that must be implemented
by the selected contractor(s) during the implementation of the
Port Granby Project in order to minimise the negative impact of
the project work on the environment. The EPP will be supported
by follow up environmental monitoring programs and a Radiation
Protection Plan.

Radiation 
Licensed facilities are regulated by the Canadian Nuclear Safety
Commission (CNSC), a regulatory government organization that
controls the use of nuclear energy and materials to protect the
environment.  All the work will be performed in accordance with
CNSC's licensing provisions and conditions. The current waste
burial site is a licensed facility and the construction of the
new LTWMF is to conform to licensing requirements that are
already in place and the completed facility will eventually need
CNSC's approval prior to receiving any waste.  AECL is the
licensee for the Port Granby Project. Therefore all
construction/remediation work will be undertaken within the
requirements of the license and AECL will be conducting the
necessary monitoring/surveillance activities to satisfy the
licence requirements. 

As part of the conformance requirements, the contractor will be
responsible for developing a Radiation Protection Plan (RPP).
This plan is the basis for protection from ionizing radiation
during construction/remediation work activities. The RPP
provides a management framework and processes that are design to
ensure that radiation exposures arising from these activities
will be maintained below regulatory dose limits and kept as low
as reasonably achievable (ALARA), taking economic and social
factors into account. 

The purpose of the RPP is to ensure that the PHAI complies with
the level of radiation safety that is required by the relevant
regulations pursuant to the Nuclear Safety and Control Act
(NSCA). This RPP is one of the plans produced as a condition of
the Port Granby Waste Nuclear Substance License issued to AECL
by the CNSC.

Schedule
The LTWMF project is scheduled to be tendered in the spring of
2013 and awarded in early 2014.  The duration of the contract
work is expected to be approximately 6 years.

Cost
The total cost of the overall PHAI project is approximately $1.2
Billion; and that total cost is divided between the Port Hope
and Port Granby sub-projects.





If you have any questions, please contact:

Maria Lopez - Special Projects Supply Team Leader or
Mary Caporusso - Supply Specialist
Real Property Contracting Services 
4900 Yonge Street, 12th Floor,
Toronto, ON, M2N 6A6
Tel: 416-512-5776 or 416-512-5859
Facsimile:  416-512-5652
E-mail: maria.lopez@pwgsc-tpsgc.gc.ca or
mary.caporusso@pwgsc-tpsgc.gc.ca

Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any
procurement.

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.