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ENVIRONMENT

Department
Parks Canada Agency

Ministry Summary

		Authorities		Adjustments to	Total Estimates
Vote (dollars)		to date	Transfers	Appropriations	to date



	Department
1c	Operating expenditures, and
	( a ) recoverable expenditures incurred in respect of the
	Prairie Provinces Water Board, the Qu'Appelle Basin
	Study Board and the St. John River Basin Study
	Board;
	( b ) authority for the Minister of the Environment to
	engage such consultants as may be required by the
	Boards identified in paragraph ( a ), at such
	remuneration as those Boards may determine;
	( c ) recoverable expenditures incurred in respect of
	Regional Water Resources Planning Investigations
	and Water Resources Inventories;
	( d ) authority to make recoverable advances not
	exceeding the aggregate of the amount of the shares
	of the Provinces of Manitoba and Ontario of the cost
	of regulating the levels of Lake of the Woods and Lac
	Seul;
	( e ) authority to make recoverable advances not
	exceeding the aggregate of the amount of the shares
	of provincial and outside agencies of the cost of
	hydrometric surveys;
	( f ) pursuant to paragraph 29.1(2)( a ) of the Financial
	Administration Act , authority to expend in the current
	fiscal year revenues received during the fiscal year
	arising from the operations of the department funded
	from this Vote; and
	( g ) the payment to each member of the Queen's Privy
	Council for Canada who is a Minister without
	Portfolio or a Minister of State who does not preside
	over a Ministry of State of a salary not to exceed the
	salary paid to Ministers of State who preside over
	Ministries of State under the Salaries Act , as adjusted
	pursuant to the Parliament of Canada Act and pro rata
	for any period of less than a year	764,716,733	(144,000)	. . . . .	764,572,733
5b	Capital expenditures and authority to make payments
	to provinces or municipalities as contributions
	towards construction done by those bodies and
	authority to make recoverable advances not exceeding
	the amount of the shares of provincial and outside
	agencies of the cost of joint projects including
	expenditures on other than federal property	51,129,140	. . . . .	. . . . .	51,129,140
10b	The grants listed in the Estimates and contributions,
	contributions to developing countries in accordance
	with the Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol
	taking the form of cash payments or the provision of
	goods, equipment or services	200,621,901	. . . . .	. . . . .	200,621,901
(S)	Contributions to employee benefit plans	83,648,000	. . . . .	. . . . .	83,648,000
(S)	Minister of the Environment - Salary and motor car
	allowance	76,422	. . . . .	. . . . .	76,422

	Total Department	1,100,192,196	(144,000)	. . . . .	1,100,048,196
	Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
15	Program expenditures, contributions and authority to
	expend revenues received during the fiscal year
	arising from the provision of environmental
	assessment services including the conduct of panel
	reviews, comprehensive studies, mediations, training
	and information publications by the Canadian
	Environmental Assessment Agency	32,368,375	. . . . .	. . . . .	32,368,375
(S)	Contributions to employee benefit plans	2,942,000	. . . . .	. . . . .	2,942,000

	Total Agency	35,310,375	. . . . .	. . . . .	35,310,375
	National Round Table on the Environment and
	the Economy
20	Program expenditures	5,035,300	. . . . .	. . . . .	5,035,300
(S)	Contributions to employee benefit plans	411,000	. . . . .	. . . . .	411,000
(S)	Expenditures pursuant to paragraph 29.1(1) of the
	Financial Administration Act	20,000	. . . . .	. . . . .	20,000

	Total Agency	5,466,300	. . . . .	. . . . .	5,466,300
	Parks Canada Agency
25c	Program expenditures, including capital expenditures,
	the grants listed in the Estimates and contributions,
	including expenditures on other than federal property,
	and payments to provinces and municipalities as
	contributions towards the cost of undertakings carried
	out by those bodies - To authorize the transfer of
	$5,000,000 from Transport Vote 10, and $144,000
	from Health Vote 1, Appropriation Act No. 2,
	2008-2009 for the purposes of this Vote and to
	provide a further amount of	516,080,081	5,144,000	585,297	521,809,378
30b	Payments to the New Parks and Historic Sites
	Account for the purposes of establishing new national
	parks, national historic sites and related heritage
	areas, as set out in section 21 of the Parks Canada
	Agency Act	12,500,001	. . . . .	. . . . .	12,500,001
(S)	Contributions to employee benefit plans	44,019,000	. . . . .	. . . . .	44,019,000
(S)	Expenditures equivalent to revenues resulting from
	the conduct of operations pursuant to section 20 of the
	Parks Canada Agency Act	111,000,000	. . . . .	. . . . .	111,000,000

	Total Agency	683,599,082	5,144,000	585,297	689,328,379

	Total Ministry	1,824,567,953	5,000,000	585,297	1,830,153,250

Note: The “Authorities to date” column includes items brought forward, but not yet approved in 2008-09 Supplementary Estimates (B) at the time of printing this document, as well as permanent allocations from Treasury Board Central Votes.

Department

Explanation of Requirements (thousands of dollars)

Environment - No additional funding being requested
Transfers	Vote 1

Transfer to Fisheries and Oceans - For investments in search and rescue coordination initiatives across Canada	(144)

Note: Figures in the “Explanation of Requirements” may not agree with the “Ministry Summary” due to rounding.

Parks Canada Agency

Explanation of Requirements (thousands of dollars)

Parks Canada Agency requests funds for the following items:
Voted Appropriations	Vote 25

Funding related to the assessment, management and remediation of federal contaminated sites ( horizontal item )	3,713
Funds Available
Less: Spending authorities available within the Vote	3,128

Total Voted Appropriations	585

Transfers
Transfer from Transport - For costs associated with upgrading a section of the Trans-Canada Highway from a
two-lane undivided highway to a four-lane divided highway in Banff National Park in order to improve public
safety and accommodate the increased volume in commercial as well as tourist traffic under the Gateways and
Border Crossings Fund	5,000
Transfer from Health Canada - Funding related to the assessment, management and remediation of federal
contaminated sites ( horizontal item )	144

Total Transfers	5,144

These Supplementary Estimates	5,729

Explanation of Funds Available (dollars)

Vote 25 : $3,127,690 in total authorities is available within the Vote due to: $2,894,000 from savings identified as part of the government's ongoing strategic review of departmental spending; and $233,690 from savings identified as part of the government's reduction of public opinion research expenditures.

Note: Figures in the “Explanation of Requirements” may not agree with the “Ministry Summary” due to rounding.

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