Participant funding for regulatory oversight reports for the 2024 calendar year

Status

This participant funding opportunity is open from July 9 to August 25, 2025.

Participant funding notice

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) is offering participant funding to assist Indigenous Nations and communities, members of the public and interested parties in reviewing and submitting comments in writing to the Commission on CNSC staff’s 5 regulatory oversight reports (RORs) for the 2024 calendar year. Persons seeking to intervene are invited to submit 1 written intervention, which may address any or all of the RORs for 2024. In addition, in the spirit of reconciliation and in recognition of the Indigenous oral tradition of sharing knowledge, the CNSC is offering Indigenous intervenors the opportunity to make oral presentations. The facilities and activities covered by the 2024 RORs are located in the traditional and treaty territories of many Indigenous Nations and communities, as described in each report.

During the week of March 23, 2026, the CNSC will hold a public meeting to present the following 5 RORs to the Commission:

• Regulatory Oversight Report for Canadian Nuclear Power Generating Sites: 2024
• Regulatory Oversight Report for Uranium and Nuclear Substance Processing Facilities in Canada: 2024
• Regulatory Oversight Report for Uranium Mines and Mills in Canada: 2024
• Regulatory Oversight Report on the Use of Nuclear Substances in Canada: 2024
• Regulatory Oversight Report for Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Sites: 2024

In these RORs, CNSC staff provide their assessment of the safety performance of licensees in their respective sectors during the 2024 calendar year.

Applying for funding

In advance of the public meeting, the CNSC will offer up to $300,000 in funding through its Participant Funding Program. Funding will be disbursed among all eligible applicants for the provision of new, distinctive and valuable information through informed and topic-specific interventions to the Commission. Participant funding applications must clearly demonstrate how the proposed intervention will provide the Commission with information directly related to the 5 RORs for the 2024 calendar year and to licensees’ regulatory performance as outlined in the reports. Applicants need to submit only 1 funding application, even if their intervention addresses multiple RORs. Applicants must clearly specify in their application which 2024 ROR(s) their proposed intervention will cover.

To apply, please submit a participant funding application form. Certain terms and conditions apply. An application form can be submitted by:

• Email: pfp@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca
• Mail: Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
  c/o Participant Funding Program Administrator
  280 Slater St
  PO Box 1046 Stn B
  Ottawa ON  K1P 5S9

Deadline for submitting a participant funding application: August 25, 2025.

A funding review committee, independent of the CNSC, will consider all applications for funding and make recommendations on the allocation of funds.

For information on how to participate, please consult the Participate in a public Commission meeting and Participant Funding Program sections of the CNSC website.

Eligibility and funding criteria

For more information on participant funding and how it works, including details on eligibility and funding criteria, please read the Participant Funding Program Guide.

Contact information

Participant Funding Program Administrator
pfp@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca