CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL

RP-2000-0110

TRAFALGAR FACILITIES EXPANSION PROGRAM 2000/2001

a)	Subject to Condition (g), Union Gas shall comply with the conditions and directions imposed by the Board, and with all commitments made by its counsel and witnesses, and shall construct the pipeline and shall restore the land according to the evidence of its witnesses at this hearing.

b)	Union Gas shall designate one of its employees as project engineer who will be responsible for the fulfilment of conditions and undertakings on the construction site. Union Gas shall provide the name of the project engineer to the Board's designated representative. Union Gas shall prepare a list of the conditions imposed by the Board, and the undertakings given by its counsel and witnesses during the hearing, and provide it to the Board's designated representative for verification within seven days of the Board's Decision With Reasons being issued, and to the project engineer for compliance during construction.

c)	The Board's designated representative for the purpose of these Conditions of Approval shall be the Board's Regulatory Officer responsible for the application, or, in the Regulatory Officer's absence, the Manager, Facilities.

d)	Union shall give the Board's designated representative and the Chairman of the Ontario Pipeline Coordinating Committee ("OPCC") ten days written notice, in advance of the commencement of the construction.

e)	Union Gas shall file with the Board's designated representative notice of the date on which the installed pipelines were tested, within one month after the final test date.

f)	Union shall furnish the Board's designated representative with every reasonable facility for ascertaining whether the work has been, and is being, performed in accordance with the Board's Decision.

g)	Union shall advise the Board's designated representative of any proposed material change in construction or restoration procedures and, except in an emergency, Union shall not make such change without prior approval of the Board or its designated representative. In the event of an emergency, the Board shall be informed forthwith after the fact.

h)	Both during and after the construction, Union Gas shall monitor the effects upon the lands and the environment, and shall file ten copies of both an interim and a final monitoring report with the Board's designated representative and simultaneously provide a copy of each report to each municipality and landowner on the pipeline route. The interim monitoring report shall be filed within six months of the final in-service date and the final monitoring report within 18 months of the final in-service date.

i)	The interim report shall describe the implementation of Conditions (a) and (f) and shall include a description of the effects noted during the construction and the actions taken or to be taken to prevent or mitigate any long-term effects of the construction upon the environment. This report shall describe any outstanding concerns of landowners or tenants identified during construction.

j)	The final environmental monitoring report shall describe the condition of the rehabilitated right-of-way and the effectiveness of the mitigation measures undertaken. The results of the monitoring programs and analysis shall be included and recommendations made as appropriate. This report must identify the measures taken to minimize the effect of construction on the specimen trees along the route and a mitigation plan. Further, a final environmental cost report shall be filed with the Board and shall include a breakdown of external costs incurred to date for the authorized project, with items of cost associated with particular environmental measures delineated and identified as pre-construction related, construction related and restoration related. Any deficiency in compliance with undertakings shall be explained.

k)	Union Gas shall attach to its interim and final monitoring reports a log of all landowner complaints that have been received during construction. Such a log shall record the times of all complaint-related communications between Union Gas and the landowners; the substance of each complaint; the actions taken in response; and the reasons underlying such actions.

l)	Within 15 months of the final in-service date, Union Gas shall file with the Board Secretary a Post Construction Financial Report. The Report shall indicate the actual capital costs of the project and shall explain all significant variances from the estimates adduced in the hearing.

m)	The Leave to Construct granted herein terminates December 31, 2001, unless otherwise ordered by the Board.