Building Canada Fund Communities Component BCFCC 17 Categories and Expectations

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Building Canada Fund Communities Component
(BCF-CC)17 Categories and Expectations
Municipal Information Sessions
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Completed Application

• Complete and submit ALL pieces of the application
• Online application form 
• Business Case
• Supplementary Project Financing Questionnaire 
• Category specific schedules
• Supplementary provincial information is required
  for the following categories
• Brownfield Redevelopment
• Connectivity and Broadband
• Drinking Water
• Green Energy
• Local Road and bridges
• Solid Waste Management
• Sport
• Tourism
• Wastewater Infrastructure
• Council resolution
• Board endorsement or resolution (if applicable)

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Points to Consider

• As part of the Project Justification and Business
  Case, describe how your proposed project meets or
  supports provincial policy objectives and plans
  (i.e., ReNew Ontario, Go Green Policy)
• Demonstrate in your application how projects
  support your broader asset management plans and
  policies
• It is important that projects are sustainable in
  regards to how they are planned, designed,
  constructed, operated, maintained and managed
• Supported by a Project Justification and Business
  Case that is comprehensive, credible and feasible

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8 Sections of the Business Case (p.38-40)

• Project Objective
• Proposed Activities
• Project Rationale
• Expected Benefits
• Timelines and Milestones
• Performance and Progress Measures
• Project Risks
• Project Budget

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Main Themes to include in your Business Case

• Does your project responds to an identified
  infrastructure need within the community?
• Are the objectives realistic and expected results
  achievable? Will the activities identified be
  completed within your proposed time frame?
• How does your proposed project fit with local,
  regional and national priorities?

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Main Themes to include in your Business Case

• Is there capacity to see the project through from
  beginning to end?
• Is there a risk management strategy associated
  with your project?
• How realistic is the budget and breakdown of
  costs?
• How will you manage the asset over its life
  cycle? Do you have sufficient operating funds?

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Project Selection

• Projects will be evaluated on the extent to which
  they meet Ontario priorities of environmental,
  better health, economic development, and quality
  of life objectives
• Applications will be scored against the Mandatory
  Project Criteria and Additional Leveraging
  Criteria (Screening Criteria in SIMSI)
• Technical ministries will play a role in
  evaluating the applications depending on the
  category

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Eligible Categories

• 1. Water Infrastructure
• 2. Wastewater Infrastructure
• 3. Public Transit Infrastructure
• 4. Core National Highway System Infrastructure
• 5. Green Energy Infrastructure
• 6. Disaster Mitigation Infrastructure
• 7. Solid Waste Management Infrastructure
• 8. Brownfield Remediation and Redevelopment
  Initiative
• 9. Culture Infrastructure

• 10. Sport Infrastructure
• 11. Connectivity and Broadband Infrastructure
• 12. Local Road Infrastructure
• 13. Shortline Rail Infrastructure
• 14. Short-Sea Shipping Infrastructure
• 15. Regional and Local Airport Infrastructure
• 16. Tourism Infrastructure
• 17. Collaborative Projects

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1. Water Infrastructure (p. 62)

• Project Examples
• Drinking water treatment infrastructure
• Drinking water distribution infrastructure (may
  include metering as part of a larger project)
• Funding focusing on protection of human health

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1. Water Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• If the project involves new construction or
  material rehabilitation of a drinking water
  treatment plant, affirm that the drinking water
  quality, following completion of the project,
  will meet or exceed provincial standards
• If the requested federal contribution is
  10,000,000 or more, affirm that within two years
  of project approval you will have in place
• Full life cycle cost accounting in respect of
  water infrastructure assets.
• An integrated watershed management plan.
• User fees or metering for residential or
  commercial projects implemented
• Full cost pricing implemented
• If no, how will cost recovery be pursued and how
  will capital and operating and maintenance
  shortfalls be addressed?

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1. Water Infrastructure continued

• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Promote Strong,
  Competitive and Sustainable Communities
• Increased number of households provided with
  access to improved drinking water quality
• Improved quality of drinking water
• Increased number of households equipped with
  residential metering
• Decreased daily per capita water use
• Increased service reliability of water treatment
  and distribution facilities
• Increased efficiency in the treatment plant
  operations and/or distribution system
• Improve protection and management of drinking
  water sources
• Improve conservation of water
• Eligible Categories

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2. Wastewater Infrastructure (p. 64)

• Project Examples
• Sewage Treatment Facilities
• Sewage treatment infrastructure
• Sludge management infrastructure
• Sewage collection infrastructure including
  increasing the number of households with access
  to communal sewage treatment
• Separate combined sewer overflows
• Improve the management of municipal wastewater
  facilities (may include septage receiving and
  sludge handling facilities)
• Emphasis on treatment to a higher standard
• Stormwater Management Facilities
• Stormwater management infrastructure
• Separate of combined sewer overflows
• Improve the management of municipal stormwater
  management facilities
• Improve the quality of stormwater discharges

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2. Wastewater Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• If the project involves the construction of new
  or material rehabilitation or expansion of
  existing municipal wastewater treatment
  facilities, affirm that it will result in
  municipal wastewater effluent that meets
  applicable provincial/federal regulations and
  licensing requirements
• If the project involves the use of chlorine
  disinfection processes, affirm that it
  incorporates chlorine removal processes
• If the project involves the construction of new
  or material rehabilitation or expansion of
  existing wastewater sludge treatment and
  management facilities, affirm that it will meet
  applicable provincial/federal regulations and
  licensing requirements
• Will an integrated watershed management plan be
  implemented within two years of project approval,
  that includes, at minimum, a Sewer Use Control
  Program, supported by appropriate compliance and
  enforcement policies, including municipal sewer
  use by-laws, demand management (including
  metering and pricing, where appropriate), process
  optimization strategies, and energy management?

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2. Wastewater Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria continued
• Will an integrated watershed management plan be
  implemented within two years of project approval,
  that includes, at minimum, a Sewer Use Control
  Program, supported by appropriate compliance and
  enforcement policies, including municipal sewer
  use by-laws, demand management (including
  metering and pricing, where appropriate), process
  optimization strategies, and energy management?
• Will full life cycle cost accounting in respect
  of wastewater infrastructure assets that takes
  into account resources required for ongoing
  operation, maintenance, upgrades and replacement
  be implemented within two years of project
  approval?
• How will cost recovery be pursued and how will
  capital and operating and maintenance shortfalls,
  if any, be addressed?
• List any other water demand management measures
  in place or to be implemented (e.g., education,
  opportunities for grey water systems, metering,
  full cost recovery, etc.)

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2. Wastewater Infrastructure continued

• Benefits/ Project Outcomes - Promote Strong,
  Competitive and Sustainable Communities
• A measurable and quantifiable reduction in volume
  and/or improvement in the level of treatment of
  wastewater effluent
• Increased number of households, industries,
  commercial establishments, and institutions with
  untreated wastewater connected to sanitary sewer
  systems
• Reduced volume and incidents of discharge of
  untreated wastewater effluent as a result of
  sanitary sewer and combined sewer overflow events
  
• Improved stormwater effluent quality
• Implementation of full life cycle cost accounting
  and full cost recovery (where possible) for
  wastewater infrastructure assets
• Improvement to the reliability or performance of
  the wastewater collection and/or treatment system
  
• Improved wastewater sludge treatment and
  management
• Eligible Categories

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3. Public Transit Infrastructure (p. 66)

• Project Examples
• Transit infrastructure including rail, bus, green
  bus, ferries and
• para-transit vehicles
• Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) fare
  collection, fleet management, information systems
• Enhancements of capital infrastructure in support
  of public transit, e.g., terminals or turning
  lanes

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3. Public Transit Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• Demonstrate how your project is consistent with
  an official, integrated land-use and
  transportation development plan or strategy
• Affirm that your project is compatible with the
  implementation of the transit strategy developed
  under the Public Transit Fund?
• Are there security and emergency preparedness
  plans in place that have been funded through
  Transit-Secure? If yes, demonstrate that the
  project is consistent with these plans, and that
  future related training, public awareness and
  incident reporting needs are taken into
  consideration

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3. Public Transit Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria continued
• Explain how the project incorporates any
  appropriate Transportation Demand Management
  practices
• Note any regional co-ordination and planning
  bodies that have endorsed this project
• Note any ITS components or systems included in
  the project
• Affirm that any rolling stock or ferries funded
  will be accessible for persons with disabilities

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3. Public Transit Infrastructure continued

• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Promote Sustainable
  Growth
• Improved mobility and reduced congestion
• Improved access to transit
• Increased transit ridership
• Increased transit modal share
• Improved travel times
• Improved safety and security of passengers and
  other transportation users
• Improved operational efficiency
• Reduced emissions of air pollutants and
  greenhouse gases
• Increased implementation of transit-oriented
  development
• Eligible Categories

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4. Core National Highway System Infrastructure
(p. 69)

• Project Examples
• Construction on highways or ferry services that
  form part of the CNH including
• Turning lanes
• Truck lanes
• Rest areas
• Interchanges
• Safety improvements
• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

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4. Core National Highway System Infrastructure
continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• Affirm that the project will use engineering
  standards recognized by the Transportation
  Association of Canada or approved, equivalent
  provincial standards or municipal standards
• Describe how the project minimizes GHG emissions
  and other environmental and land-use impacts?
• Describe how the project aligns with a corridor
  and/or border infrastructure project in the
  United States, or within another jurisdiction in
  Canada, if applicable
• Demonstrate how the project incorporates
  Transportation Demand Management measures, if
  applicable

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4. Core National Highway System Infrastructure
continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria continued
• Describe any ITS components or systems that will
  be included in the project
• Is the project integrated in municipal and/or
  provincial plans?
• Has a road safety audit been undertaken? (You
  will have the opportunity to upload a document at
  the end of the online application process)
• Has a value engineering assessment been
  undertaken? (You will have the opportunity to
  upload a document at the end of the online
  application process)
• Describe any features of the project that will
  help support wildlife sustainability (such as for
  highways through rural areas)

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4. Core National Highway System Infrastructure
continued

• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Support Economic
  Growth and Productivity
• Increased transportation system efficiency and
  capacity (e.g., reducing bottlenecks, additional
  physical/operational capacity)
• Improved safety (fewer accidents and deaths)
• Improved connections to major population and
  economic centres
• Maximize the efficiency of existing and/or new
  infrastructure through the use of innovative
  technology and/or other initiatives
• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Facilitate Trade
• Improved access to one or both of the following
  Canada-US land border crossings that are
  connected directly to the Core National Highway
  System and multi-modal transportation corridors,
  and/or intermodal facilities
• Eligible Categories

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5. Green Energy Infrastructure (p. 72)

• Project Examples
• Stimulate investment in sustainable energy
  infrastructure
• For increased renewable energy supply, improved
  air quality and reduced greenhouse gas emissions
• Sub-categories New or improved clean electricity
  transmission grid, Hydrogen infrastructure,
  Electric vehicle infrastructure, Biofuels,
  Thermal heat/cooling delivery (District Energy
  and CHP), Clean coal, Wind, Solar (under 1MW),
  and Building Energy Retrofits

Provincial Mission To develop a cost-effective,
reliable and environmentally sustainable energy
supply, reduce the reliance on coal-generated
electricity and demonstrate leadership in energy
conservation and renewable power
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5. Green Energy Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• Demonstrate the need for the project (such as
  unmet electricity demand) and a market for the
  energy/electricity/heat
• For district energy systems based on geothermal
  or for hydrogen fuel cell related infrastructure,
  account for the source of electricity used in the
  operation of the geothermal infrastructure or for
  generation of the fuel cell energy
• For all green energy infrastructure, demonstrate
  that the project uses innovative technologies and
  methodologies and a pollution-control plan is
  developed and implemented
• For transmission grid projects, demonstrate how
  the project supports the development or transfer
  of clean electricity, especially to displace more
  carbon-intensive electricity
• For transmission grid projects, demonstrate how
  the project supports the security of electricity
  supplies, allowing for more efficient electricity
  markets/electricity use

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5. Green Energy Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria continued
• For hydrogen infrastructure, Describe the demand
  that would support the infrastructure. Indicate
  who use the infrastructure and if public access
  is planned for the future and under what
  conditions
• Describe any action plans that will be
  implemented to support energy conservation within
  the community or institution benefiting from the
  project, including energy audits and green
  building actions where appropriate
• Describe any public awareness program that will
  be implemented related to energy use and its
  environmental effects
• For district energy systems based on geothermal
  or for hydrogen fuel cell related infrastructure,
  account for the source of electricity used in the
  operation of the geothermal infrastructure or for
  generation of the fuel cell energy
• For transmission grid projects, describe how the
  projects consider natural-disaster resilient
  infrastructure technologies and methods

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5. Green Energy Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria continued
• For hydrogen infrastructure, describe the demand
  that would support the hydrogen infrastructure
• For hydrogen infrastructure, indicate who the
  infrastructure is (or will be) available to, and
  if public access is planned for the future and
  under what conditions
• For clean coal facilities, discuss the technology
  deployed to reduce air pollutants and GHG
  emission at least as low as natural gas combined
  cycle technology (e.g., Integrated gasification
  combined cycle, oxyfuel, post-combustion capture)
• Demonstrate that you can operate the
  infrastructure on a full cost-recovery basis

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5. Green Energy Infrastructure continued

• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Promote Sustainable
  Growth
• Increased the security of Canada's clean
  electricity supply
• Increased availability of clean-energy
  technologies in Canada
• Increased number of private sector and public
  sector installations and/or use of clean-energy
  technologies
• Increased electricity trade connections between
  provinces/territories, which facilitate the
  transfer of clean electricity
• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Improved Quality of
  Canada's Air, Water and Land
• Increased installation of clean energy
  technologies, improving air quality and reducing
  GHG emissions
• Eligible Categories

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6. Disaster Mitigation Infrastructure (p. 74)

• Project Examples
• Reinforcement of structures that protect from
  acts of God or events related to climate change
• Does not include normal routine, maintenance and
  operational work

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6. Disaster Mitigation Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• Affirm that a risk assessment that supports the
  proposed mitigation project and includes the
  likelihood of a hazard or combination of hazards
  occurring and the potential impacts has been
  completed
• List any non-structural disaster measures that
  support risk assessment currently implemented, or
  that will be implemented within two years of
  project completion (e.g., municipal zoning
  by-laws, planning and building codes that reduce
  disaster risk, public awareness, education)
• Describe the emergency operations/response plan
  that has been formulated based on the risk
  assessment, if such a plan has been developed
• Describe how the project is consistent with the
  National Disaster Mitigation Strategy

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6. Disaster Mitigation Infrastructure continued

• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Promote Strong,
  Competitive and Sustainable Communities
• Reduce the social, physical and/or economic risks
  associated with an extreme natural event and/or
  adverse effects related to climate change
• Improve the resiliency of public infrastructure
  to extreme natural events and/or adverse effects
  related to climate change
• Eligible Categories

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7. Solid Waste Management Infrastructure (p. 75)

• Project Examples
• Solid waste diversion projects
• Reduce/Re-use/Recycling/Composting
• Reduce the environmental impacts resulting from
  municipal solid waste management
• Promote investments in solid waste processing
  infrastructure
• Diversion of solid waste out of waste stream as
  well as measures that support the reduction and
  management of solid waste

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7. Solid Waste Management Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• If the project involves Solid Waste Diversion
  projects, affirm that the project will result in
  a measurable increase in the quantity (kg/capita)
  of material diverted from disposal as measured
  against a baseline using the Generally Accepted
  Principles (GAP) for Calculating Municipal Solid
  Waste System Flow
• Is an appropriate waste management plan
  implemented that is no more than five years old
  and that includes public education or outreach?
• For disposal projects with a federal contribution
  of 500,000 or more, describe the solid waste
  diversion plan, the heat and energy recovery
  system, the air pollution control management plan
  and the ash management plan, as appropriate
• Do you have or will you implement within two
  years of project approval, a user-pay system for
  solid waste management (i.e., pay as you throw)?

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7. Solid Waste Management Infrastructure continued

• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Improved Quality of
  Canada's Air, Water and Land
• Increase the quantity (kg/capita) of solid waste
  diverted from disposal
• Reduced environmental impacts from landfills
  (e.g., GHG emissions, leaching of liquid waste,
  soil contamination)
• Increased energy recovery from solid waste
  management activities
• Eligible Categories

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8. Brownfield Remediation and Redevelopment
Initiative (p. 77)

• Project Examples
• Remediation/decontamination of brownfield sites
  within municipal boundaries
• Construct public infrastructure in the context of
  any of the 17 categories
• Construct municipal use parks and publicly-owned
  social housing, alone or mixed with a private
  development component that includes any mix of
  residential, commercial, institutional or
  industrial uses
• Demonstrate that any decontamination/remediation
  is done as a part of a larger public
  infrastructure redevelopment project

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8. Brownfield Remediation and Redevelopment
Initiative continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• Affirm that the project includes a public
  infrastructure redevelopment component
• Affirm that the eligible costs in respect of
  remediation/decontamination be prorated based on
  the land use share of the eligible public
  infrastructure component
• Affirm that the project will be undertaken on
  properties that are contaminated, as determined
  using remediation criteria as established by the
  relevant jurisdiction for the proposed
  redeveloped land uses, as confirmed by a Phase II
  Environmental Site Assessment (ESA), which shall
  include a detailed historical description of the
  site's previous uses and owners (You will have
  the opportunity to upload a document at the end
  of the online application process)

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8. Brownfield Remediation and Redevelopment
Initiative continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria continued
• Describe your relationship to the originator(s)
  of the pollution source, if any
• Affirm that you intend to attach a remediation
  action plan to your application (You will have
  the opportunity to upload a document at the end
  of the online application process)
• Identify potential regulatory or civil liability
  risks and provide a risk management plan
  including confirmation of pollution legal
  liability insurance
• Affirm your understanding that the federal
  government assumes no regulatory or civil
  liability as a result of funding, and that the
  federal government is not responsible for any
  cost overruns

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8. Brownfield Remediation and Redevelopment
Initiative continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria continued
• Affirm that a third-party verification will be
  undertaken to ensure that the site has been
  remediated to appropriate levels for the proposed
  property use, at the end of the project
• Describe how the redevelopment project fulfills
  any of the following benefits (multiple may be
  selected) buildings exhibit energy efficiency
  (passive and active), water efficiency, and green
  building design reuse (preferred) or recycling
  of existing building materials, where
  appropriate and Incorporation, where
  appropriate, conservation/development of wildlife
  habitat and green space

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8. Brownfield Remediation and Redevelopment
Initiative continued

• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Promote Strong,
  Competitive and Sustainable Communities
• Reduction of the environmental and health risks
  posed by contaminated sites within municipal
  boundaries
• Increased supply of social housing
• Increased sustainability of municipal development
  and encouragement of more efficient land use
• Eligible Categories

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9. Culture Infrastructure (p. 79)

• Project Examples
• Museums
• Preservation of designated heritage sites (i.e.,
  UNESCO, nationally registered, etc.)
• Libraries and archives
• Creation of a facility for production and
  presentation of arts
• Creation of an arts centre within a developed
  town core
• Projects must demonstrate a significant
  economic/regional impact

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9. Culture Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• Describe how the project has a significant
  economic and / or regional impact
• Describe your plan for increased or expanded
  regional outreach
• Describe how the project results in one or more
  of the following increased seating or visitor
  capacity increased capacity to reach new
  audiences and enhanced services in the promotion
  of culture
• Will you be getting financial support or a
  resolution in support of the project from a local
  government council(s) in another community?

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9. Culture Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria continued
• Will the project increase access/service
  availability to Aboriginal communities?
• Will the project contribute to the revitalization
  of neighbourhoods or communities?
• Will the project enable the proponent to enhance
  and diversify its program services and offerings?
  
• Will the project provide increased capacity to
  the facility through technological improvements
  that allow for the hosting of a greater number
  and/or more diverse types of performances and/or
  gives the facility a "rental capacity" in order
  to expand its activities?
• Will the project increase sustainable urban
  development and encourage a more efficient urban
  form?

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9. Culture Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria continued
• Will the project minimize the negative impacts on
  the environment by reducing ongoing energy
  consumption and/or water consumption and/or waste
  compared to the existing infrastructure, or by
  encouraging recycling or by using recognized
  green materials in the construction/restoration
  or improvement of the infrastructure?
• Will the project contribute to long-term
  community building by promoting partnerships with
  other community organizations?
• Will the project improve/restore a public
  infrastructure in a community where there will be
  a national exhibition or a regional celebration
  such as the foundation of a city?
• Is the project a multi-use facility or does it
  have a multi-use component?

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9. Culture Infrastructure continued

• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Promote Strong,
  Competitive and Sustainable Communities
• Increases community use of facilities or gives
  the facilities a multipurpose dimension
• Enhances ability of communities to express,
  preserve, develop and promote their cultural
  heritage within Canada
• Generates economies of scale, spin-off
  activities, and supports the larger economic
  priorities of the community and of governments
• Eligible Categories

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10. Sport Infrastructure (p. 82)

• Project Examples
• Sport infrastructure for community public use
  including training facilities for
  high-performance amateur athletes
• Sport infrastructure in support of major amateur
  athletic events

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10. Sport Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• Describe how the primary rationale for
  undertaking the project is to support organized,
  competitive, amateur athletic activities
• Affirm that the project will have a significant
  economic and / or regional impact
• Describe how public access (community and amateur
  athletic use) to the proposed facility will be at
  least 60 of the normal operational time of the
  facility
• Describe how no more than 33 of the normal
  operational time will be utilized for
  recreational activities

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10. Sport Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria continued
• Describe how the project is multi-use and/or has
  a regional, national or international mandate, if
  applicable (e.g., national or regional training
  centre, designed to host regional, national or
  international amateur athletic events)
• Describe any financial support or resolutions in
  support of the project from a local government
  council(s) in another community, if applicable
• Describe how the project increases public access
  to, and participation in, the facility and/or
  sports activities, if applicable
• Describe how the project provides increased
  opportunities for the development of current
  Canadian athletes, if applicable

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10. Sport Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria continued
• Describe how the project increases sustainable
  urban development, encourages a more efficient
  urban form and is serviced by public transit, if
  applicable
• Describe how the project minimizes the negative
  impacts on the environment by reducing ongoing
  energy consumption and/or water consumption
  and/or waste compared to the existing
  infrastructure, or by encouraging recycling or by
  using recognized green materials in the
  construction/restoration or improvement of the
  infrastructure, if applicable
• Describe how the project increases access/service
  availability to Aboriginal communities, or
  contributes to neighbourhood/community
  revitalization, if applicable
• Describe how the facility user fees are tailored
  to accommodate Canadians of all income levels, if
  applicable

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10. Sport Infrastructure continued

• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Promote Strong,
  Competitive and Sustainable Communities
• A higher proportion of Canadians from all
  segments of society participating in sport
  activities
• Supports the development of Canadian athletes
• Designed to attract hosting opportunities for
  regional, national or international sporting
  events
• Eligible Categories

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11. Connectivity and Broadband Infrastructure
(p. 84)

• Project Examples
• Broadband infrastructure that addresses
  high-speed internet access gaps
• High-speed backbone
• Point of presence
• Local distribution within communities
• Satellite capacity

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11. Connectivity and Broadband Infrastructure
continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• Describe how the technological solutions used by
  the project are appropriate, reasonable and
  available
• Affirm that you will promote competitiveness by
  conducting a commercially and technologically
  neutral Request for Proposal
• Affirm that the project provides for third party
  open access
• Describe how the project is based on a practical
  needs assessment and is scalable to realistically
  meet future needs
• Does the project provide broadband connectivity
  to currently unserved communities?

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11. Connectivity and Broadband Infrastructure
continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria continued
• Describe if the project increases access/service
  availability to aboriginal communities and/or
  collaboration between aboriginal and
  non-aboriginal communities
• Will the project benefit the community it
  connects by providing points of presence in
  communities with reasonable rates for residents,
  businesses, and institutions?
• Will the project benefit the community it
  connects by improving the delivery of public
  services?
• Will the project benefit the community it
  connects by improving the quality, accessibility
  and effectiveness of e-health?
• Describe if the project will help promote
  cultural diversity and/or minority languages

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11. Connectivity and Broadband Infrastructure
continued

• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Support Economic
  Growth and Productivity
• Increases their ability to participate in
  economic development through online marketing and
  e-commerce
• Improves their access to employment and learning
  opportunities
• Furthers opportunities for civic engagement and
  social development, including promotion of
  culture and minority languages
• Allows governments to provide services more
  effectively and efficiently, including health
  services
• Eligible Categories

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12. Local Road Infrastructure (p. 86)

• Project Examples
• Additional capacity and rehabilitation of roads,
  bridges, tunnels, intersections, etc.
• Compliance with accessibility
• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
• Sidewalks, bicycle lanes, multi-use pathways

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12. Local Road Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• Describe how the project contributes to the
  improved health and safety of Ontarios citizens
  through improved road safety, mobility and
  sustainability
• Ensure mandatory supporting documentation listed
  in the Technical Schedules have been completed as
  described and submitted with the application
• Ensure existing deficiencies are described in
  detail under each factor in the Technical
  Schedule and describe how the proposed
  improvements will address the deficiencies
• Describe how the project is compatible with
  official development and transportation plans or
  other strategies to promote the sustainable
  development of the municipality in which they
  take place. (How does this project support
  Ontarios long-term economic development and
  competitiveness?)

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12. Local Road Infrastructure continued

• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Promote Strong,
  Competitive and Sustainable Communities
• Improved health and safety of citizens (e.g.
  reduced accidents through road safety
  improvements, reduced possibility of bridge
  failure)
• Improved transportation system efficiency and
  resulting provincial competitiveness, optimizing
  the use of all modes, and decreasing the use of
  single-occupancy vehicles, lowering environmental
  impacts like GHG emissions
• Minimized environmental impacts (e.g., GHG
  emissions, land use)
• Improved economic development through access to
  one or all of the following Multi-modal
  transportation corridors, and/or intermodal
  facilities Business and employment centres
  (including commercial, industrial, natural
  resources and tourism sites)
• Support community development
• Eligible Categories

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13. Shortline Rail Infrastructure (p. 89)

• Project Examples
• Construction of industrial branch lines to serve
  an industrial park
• Construction or upgrading of tracks, excluding
  regular maintenance
• Procurement of technology to improve interchange
  of goods between modes
• Limited to freight

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• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• Describe the importance of the line for the
  region's transportation system and economy
• Describe the economic advantages for shippers
• Demonstrate your capacity to operate and maintain
  the project on a sustainable, long-term basis.
• Will there be additional investment from other
  businesses and community groups?
• Demonstrate your capacity to operate and maintain
  the service on a sustainable, long-term basis

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13. Shortline Rail Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria continued
• Describe how the project minimizes negative
  environmental and/or social impacts on
  communities (noise, access to local roads, land
  use)
• Describe how the project increases transportation
  system efficiency and capacity
• Is the project integrated with local/regional
  strategic transportation planning?
• Does the project include an ITS component or
  system?
• Describe how the project minimizes land-use
  impacts.
• Describe how the project maximizes opportunities
  to introduce or enhance security measures.

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13. Shortline Rail Infrastructure continued

• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Improve Canada's
  Competitiveness
• Reducing bottlenecks and slowing the growth of
  congestion to improve mobility, efficiency, and
  productivity of the transportation system
• Improving transportation safety and security
• Improved access to one or all of the following
  multi-modal transportation corridors, and/or
  intermodal transfer facilities commercial and/or
  industrial sites regions with significant
  natural resource potential
• Improving the connectivity of intermodal
  interfaces
• Improved efficiency of transfers between modes
  (freight and/or equipment)
• Reduced growth rate of commercial truck traffic
  on highways and roads
• Increased freight capacity of shortline railways
• Maximizes use of existing infrastructure
• Minimizing environmental impacts of
  transportation (e.g., air quality, negative
  land-use impacts)
• Promotes regional economic development
• Eligible Categories

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14. Short-Sea Shipping Infrastructure (p. 91)

• Project Examples
• Marine-to-marine intermodal facilities or
  transhipment
• Capitalized equipment for loading/unloading to
  expand short-sea shipping
• Technology to improve interface between marine
  mode and rail/highway mode including ITS

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14. Short-Sea Shipping Infrastructure

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• Describe your capacity to operate and maintain
  the project and/or service on a sustainable,
  long-term basis
• Describe how the project encourages the use of
  innovative public-private partnerships and/or
  leverages additional investment by business and
  community groups
• Describe how the project will aid in improving
  efficiencies of freight movements
• Describe how the project improves access to at
  least one of the following multi-modal
  transportation corridors, and/or intermodal
  transfer facilities commercial and/or industrial
  sites regions with significant natural resource
  potential
• Describe how project integrates sustainable
  development in transportation infrastructure
  investments such as minimizing environmental
  and/or social impacts (e.g., noise) and/or
  negative land use impacts

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14. Short-Sea Shipping Infrastructure continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria continued
• Describe how the project encourages innovation in
  transportation infrastructure solutions through
  best practices and new approaches or technologies
• Is the project supported by local and/or regional
  governments/authorities? If yes, describe
• Does the project support regional economic
  development plans? If yes, describe how
• Does the project include an ITS component or
  system?
• Describe how this project will minimize GHG
  emissions and other environmental and land-use
  impacts, if applicable

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14. Short-Sea Shipping Infrastructure continued

• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Improve Canada's
  Competitiveness
• Improved efficiencies of freight movements
• Improving transportation safety and security
• Improved access to one or all of the following
  multi-modal transportation corridors, and/or
  intermodal transfer facilities commercial and/or
  industrial sites regions with significant
  natural resource potential
• Improved efficiency of transfers between modes
  (freight and/or equipment)
• Reduced growth rate of commercial truck traffic
  on highways and roads
• Reducing bottlenecks and slowing the growth of
  congestion to improve mobility, efficiency, and
  productivity
• Minimizing environmental impacts of
  transportation (e.g., GHG emissions, air quality,
  negative land-use impacts)
• Eligible Categories

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15. Regional and Local Airport Infrastructure
(p. 93)

• Project Examples
• Enhancement of airports open year-round through
  the rehabilitation of
• Aeronautical infrastructure including runways,
  taxiways, hangars, terminals, Navaids etc.
• Non-aeronautical infrastructure including
  groundside access, parking facilities and
  commercial and industrial activities

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continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• Affirm that the project will provide significant
  economic benefits across the region
• Affirm that the project meets accepted
  engineering practices
• Affirm that the project will occur on airport or
  adjacent lands
• Justify the project based on current demand, and
  if the project is intended to expand
  facilities/capacity, substantiate the intended
  users
• Affirm that the project is consistent with
  long-term regional and/or local development plans

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continued

• Screening/Leveraging Criteria continued
• Are there any potential impacts for other
  airports in its vicinity and the overall
  provision of airport and air transportation
  services in the region?
• Demonstrate the capacity to operate and maintain
  the project on a sustainable, long-term basis
• Describe how the project uses best practices,
  including those in environmental sustainability
  or innovation in transportation infrastructure
  solutions through new approaches or technologies
• Does the project have broad support in the
  community and/or region?

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continued

• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Support Economic
  Growth and Productivity
• Promote regional economic development
• attracting new businesses to a community
• encouraging tourism, creating new markets
• supporting provincial health care
• protection of provincial natural resources
• Improve the efficiency and accessibility of
  regional and local airports
• Eligible Categories

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16. Tourism Infrastructure (p. 95)

• Project Examples
• Projects that provide significant economic and/or
  regional impact to the municipality and
• Increase tourism
• Promote it as a leading destination for Canadian
  and international tourists
• Focus on convention centres and exhibition
  hall-type facilities

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• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• Affirm that the project will have a significant
  economic and/or regional and describe how this is
  reflected in your organizations economic
  development strategy
• Describe how
• this destination has the potential to become a
  new regional or national/international
  destination for the tourism sector
• the project will contribute to the growth and
  development of this tourism destination and
• this project will bring an authentic experience
  to the tourism marketplace
• Describe how the project is part of a broader
  tourism strategy or plan and detail how the
  project will support that strategy
• Demonstrate that the community has the necessary
  access and integrated infrastructure to support
  the facility. (i.e. roads, water, sewers, etc.)
• Demonstrate that the community has the necessary
  infrastructure to support the facility
• Does the project include financial support or a
  resolution in support of the project from a local
  government council(s) in another community? If
  yes, provide details

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• Screening/Leveraging Criteria continued
• Does the project include financial support or a
  resolution in support of the project from a local
  government council(s) in another community? If
  yes, provide details
• Describe how the project will contribute to the
  rehabilitation of a neighbourhood or community
• Is the project a multi-use or multi-component
  facility? Describe each use/component and detail
  how the component contributes to the projects
  overall vision
• Describe how the project increases sustainable
  urban development, encourages a more efficient
  urban form
• Describe how the project minimizes the negative
  impacts on the environment by reducing ongoing
  energy consumption and/or water consumption
  and/or waste compared to the existing
  infrastructure, or by encouraging recycling or by
  using recognized green materials in the
  construction/restoration or improvement of the
  infrastructure, if applicable

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• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Support Economic
  Growth and Productivity
• The applicant should provide quantitative
  information (statistical data) that demonstrates
  how the proposed project will
• Increase the number of visitors and/or length of
  stay and/or quality of stay
• Promote Canada or the region as a leading
  destination for Canadian and international
  tourists
• Eligible Categories

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17. Collaborative Projects (p. 97)

• Project Examples
• Asset management including inventory and
  determination of life-cycle costs of
  infrastructure assets
• Demand management including assessment of
  capacity and prevention of overdevelopment
• Training on asset management
• Feasibility studies and infrastructure plans

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• Screening/Leveraging Criteria
• Describe how the project supports integrated
  asset management
• In the case of a feasibility study, is the
  potential infrastructure project being studied
  actively under consideration for funding under
  the Building Canada Plan at the time of the
  study?
• Affirm that the project is reflected in an
  approved sustainable community plan (You will
  have the opportunity to upload a document at the
  end of the online application process)
• Describe how the project adds to the collective
  knowledge base on state and performance of core
  infrastructure

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• Benefits/Project Outcomes - Promote Strong,
  Competitive and Sustainable Communities
• Improves the capacity of municipalities to
  implement modern and innovative life-cycle
  management plans for their infrastructure assets
  (inventory, modern management plans)
• Eligible Categories

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Contact Information

• Phone
• 1-866-306-7827
• Website
• English www.bcfontario.ca
• French www.fccontario.ca
• Mail
• BCF-CC Joint Secretariat
• 1 Stone Road West, 4th Floor NW
• Guelph, ON
• N1G 4Y2