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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

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Updates under the Species at Risk Act

Trans Mountain must ﬁle with the NEB,

at least 2 months prior to commencing

construction

, a summary of any relevant updates under the

Species at Risk Act

including new Schedule 1 listings and new or amended Recovery Strategies, Action

Plans, and Management Plans for species that have the potential to be aﬀected by

the Project. For each species-speciﬁc update, the summary must include:

a) a discussion of the Project activities’ potential eﬀects on the listed species or

its critical habitat, including an explanation as to whether additional surveys are

required to locate such critical habitat;

b) identiﬁcation of all reasonable alternatives to the Project activities referred to in

a), including avoidance measures, and a discussion on the potential eﬀects of

the alternatives, the chosen approach, and the rationale for selecting the chosen

approach;

c) any additional site-speciﬁc mitigation;

d) any monitoring to be undertaken and a commitment to include monitoring

results as part of the post-construction environmental monitoring reports ﬁled

under Condition 151;

e) an explanation as to how the responses to b), c) and d) above are consistent

with applicable recovery strategies and actions plans; and

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

Aboriginal traditional land use and traditional ecological knowledge into

consideration in developing the summary of updates, including demonstration

that those Aboriginal persons and groups that provided Aboriginal traditional

land use information and 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.

Water well inventory

Trans Mountain must ﬁle with the NEB,

at least 2 months prior to commencing

construction

, an inventory of physically veriﬁed (“ground-truthed”) water wells that are

within 150 metres of either side of the centre of the pipeline right-of-way.

The ﬁling must contain conﬁrmation that Trans Mountain will maintain and update the

inventory until the Project is abandoned or decommissioned pursuant to the NEB Act.

The inventory must include a description of the methods used to identify and physically

verify wells, including:

a) each well’s location in proximity to the right-of-way, including its GPS coordinates;

b) a description of each well’s type or use (e.g., drinking water, agricultural use, use by

Aboriginal groups, any other uses);

c) each well’s tenure or ownership (e.g., private, municipal, Aboriginal community);

d) each well’s operational status, including abandoned or decommissioned wells, and

information about each well, including well depth, lithology, and water depth, if

available;

e) a plan for updating the inventory over the life of the Project, including:

the methods for identifying and verifying abandoned or decommissioned wells,

and new or replacement wells; and

ii) the frequency of inventory updates;

f) a list of any properties or sections of the right-of-way that were not physically

veriﬁed, including;

the reason why properties or right-of-way sections were not physically accessed;

ii) an estimate of the potential number of wells that have not been physically

veriﬁed; and

iii) a proposed schedule for accessing properties or right-of-way sections; and

g) a description of Trans Mountain’s plans for communicating information about the

locations of water wells to owners or aﬀected users.