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S I T E R E H A B I L I T A T I O N P R O G R A M
The Site Rehabilitation Program (SRP) provides grants to oil field service contractors to perform well, pipeline, and oil and gas site closure and reclamation work. The program goals are to: • immediately get Alberta’s specialized oil and gas labour force back to work • accelerate site abandonment and reclamation efforts. • quickly complete a high volume of environmentally significant work • Application period 6 is open until March 31, 2022, or until allocations are fully subscribed. • Metis Settlements have each been allocated a portion of $15 million in SRP closure funding, to work with licensees and applicants to close sites on reserve and on settlement. » Metis Settlements allocations were developed in cooperation with the Metis Settlements General Council office and are distributed based on the number of eligible well licenses on each Settlement, in proportion to the total number of eligible well licenses on all Settlements. • Metis Settlements will approve the sites that are eligible for closure work using their allocation, and will work with licensees and contractors to approve the associated spending. Once this is done, they will inform the department which licensees are eligible for SRP funding, and for how much. Contractors can then apply directly to government for SRP grants to do the work. Additional period 6 details Working with the Metis Settlement, oil field service contractors can contract with licensees to do closure activities and apply for an SRP grant to get funding to do the work; licensees and Metis Settlements cannot apply for this funding – only the contractor doing the work can do so. Projects are eligible for up to 50% grant funding – the licensee or WIP is responsible for paying the remaining amount. Grant funding will be increased up to 100% of the project value if the licensee/WIP contracts with Indigenous oil field service companies. Contractors with approved grant applications will receive: • 10% of the total grant amount once their application is approved. • up to another 70% of the total grant amount after submitting interim invoicing (70% if the licensee’s municipal taxes are paid in full on the proposed site. If taxes are not paid in full, the interim funding will be 50% of the total grant amount.) • the remainder of the grant when the work is completed. Further information can be found on the site rehabilitation over page: https://www.alberta.ca/site-rehabilitation-program-overview.aspx The process to apply for a grant can be found by following the link below: https://www.alberta.ca/site-rehabilitation-program-apply-for-a-grant.aspx The Metis Settlement allocation amounts can be found through the link below: https://www.alberta.ca/assets/documents/energy-site-rehabilitation-program-period-6-metis- settlements-eligible-licensees.pdf
Additional information can be found in: APPENDIX B - Alberta Site Rehabilitation Program
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