NAVIGABLE WATERS PROTECTION ACT

Long Lake Area, Ontario, Proclaimed Exempt from Sections 19 and 20 of the Act

• CANADA
• A PROCLAMATION

JULES LÉGER

(L. S.)

CANADA

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories QUEEN, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

To All to Whom these Presents shall come or whom the same may in anyway concern,--Greeting:

A PROCLAMATION

D. S. THORSON

Deputy Attorney General

Canada

Whereas in and by section 21 of the Navigable Waters Protection Act, being chapter N-19 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1970, it is provided that the Governor in Council, when it is shown to his satisfaction that the public interest would not be injuriously affected thereby, may, by proclamation, declare any rivers, streams or waters referred to in sections 19 and 20 of the said Act, or any part or parts thereof, exempt in whole or in part from the operation of those sections;

And Whereas an application has been received from Denison Mines Limited for permission to dispose of tailings in the Long Lake area, near Elliott Lake, Townships 144 and 150, District of Algoma, Province of Ontario, as shown on the map of the area dated March 8, 1972, of record in the Department of Transport;

And Whereas it has been shown to the satisfaction of His Excellency the Governor General in Council that the public interest would not be injuriously affected by reason of the action proposed in the said application.

Now Know You that We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council for Canada, do by this Our Proclamation declare the said waters to be exempt from the operation of sections 19 and 20 of the said Act with respect to the disposal of tailings by Denison Mines Limited.

Of All Which Our Loving Subjects and all others whom these Presents may concern are hereby required to take notice and to govern themselves accordingly.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal of Canada to be hereunto affixed. Witness: Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Jules Léger, Chancellor and Principal Companion of Our Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Military Merit, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.

At Our Government House, in Our City of Ottawa, this first day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventy-four and in the twenty-third year of Our Reign.

By Command,

P. M. PITFIELD

Deputy Registrar General of Canada