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No.

Conditions with initial ﬁlings due prior to commencing construction, or prior to

commencing construction of speciﬁed Project component(s)

CPCN

OC2

OC49

Temp

Pump1

Pump2

Tanks

Deact

National Energy Board

430

Pre-construction caribou habitat assessment

Trans Mountain must ﬁle with the NEB,

at least 6 months prior to commencing

construction of any Project component potentially aﬀecting each caribou range

, a

detailed caribou habitat assessment of the Project right-of-way through each caribou

range traversed by the Project, including a 500 metre buﬀer on either side. The

framework of the habitat assessment must use the updated critical habitat polygons

delineated by the Southern Mountain Caribou Recovery Team and components of

critical habitat outlined in the

Recovery Strategy for the Woodland Caribou, Southern

Mountain Population in Canada (2014).

The habitat assessment must include:

a) map(s) indicating the location of the habitat;

b) a description of the amount of habitat and the existing habitat alteration, in

hectares;

c) a description of how Trans Mountain has taken available and applicable Aboriginal

traditional ecological knowledge into consideration into the assessment including

demonstration that those Aboriginal persons and groups that provided Aboriginal

traditional ecological knowledge, as reported during the OH-001-2014 proceeding

and/or pursuant to Condition 97, had the opportunity to review and comment on the

information;

d) a description of how Trans Mountain has incorporated input from Appropriate

Government Authorities and species experts into the assessment methodology; and

e) a description of the type of habitat characterized by the biophysical attributes of

critical habitat, as deﬁned in the applicable Recovery Strategy.

Caribou Habitat Restoration Plan (CHRP)

Trans Mountain must ﬁle with the NEB for approval, in accordance with the timelines

below, preliminary and ﬁnal versions of a CHRP for each caribou range potentially

aﬀected by the Project.

a) Preliminary CHRP – to be ﬁled

at least 6 months prior to commencing

construction of any Project component potentially aﬀecting each caribou

range

. This version of the CHRP must include the following:

the CHRP’s goals and measureable targets for each caribou range, including the

goal of avoidance of critical habitat destruction;

ii) a detailed description of measures that will be used to avoid or lessen Project

activities that impact critical habitat, and the rationale for selecting the

measures;

iii) a list of criteria used to identify potential caribou habitat restoration sites;

iv) conceptual decision-making tree(s) or decision framework(s) that will be

used to identify and prioritize potential caribou habitat restoration sites, and

mitigative actions to be used at diﬀerent types of sites, including consideration

of typical site factors that may constrain implementation;

v) a literature review upon which the decision-making tree(s) or decision

framework(s) are based, including:

1) an identiﬁcation of applicable temporal and spatial caribou habitat

restoration methodologies;

2) an assessment of the relative eﬀectiveness of the identiﬁed methodologies;

and

3) a detailed methodology of how the literature review was conducted.

vi) the quantiﬁable targets and performance measures that will be used to evaluate

the extent of predicted residual eﬀects, CHRP eﬀectiveness, the extent to which

the goals and measurable targets have been met, and the need for further

measures to oﬀset unavoidable and residual eﬀects on caribou habitat;

vii) a schedule indicating when mitigation measures will be initiated and their

estimated completion dates;