I can speak to that question.
There are two major programs south of 60. You heard our colleagues from the north speak about the regimes that exist in the north, but it's quite different south of 60.
We have two major programs. The first is the lands and environmental action fund, which assists us and first nations in complying with our environmental requirements on reserve and in improving the health and safety of first nations communities. With those funds we do workshops and capacity building, providing knowledge and information, on fuel tank issues on reserve and waste management, solid waste management in particular. We help with the development of environmental management plans and frameworks for reserves, including managing environmental compliance, and with the development of good practices with regard to the main environmental concerns. These include solid waste, fuel tanks, hazardous materials, air and water quality, and compliance with existing environmental regulations on reserve under the Species at Risk Act and CEPA.
We also have a program for the assessment and remediation of contaminated sites. The primary department for that is Environment Canada. They have the federal contaminated sites action plan. We have a piece of that in our department that works south of 60, and we share the cost of that with the contaminated sites action plan. It's for assessing and remediating existing contaminated sites. Again, our northern colleagues have the bulk of that for the department, but as Andrew mentioned, we have about $12 million flowing into that. Those are the programs we have.
The challenge that we have, as we mentioned in our previous presentation, is the environmental regulatory gap on reserve. I talked briefly about our initiatives to attempt to try to address that. We're working closely with Environment Canada. We have some federal regulations that apply under species at risk, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, and the Fisheries Act, but we fully recognize that there's a gap. We're working with EC to try to close that gap and come up with potential future legislative options.
We also recognize, as I mentioned earlier, that the regulations under the Indian Act that do apply are inadequate and outdated: the waste regulations, the timber regulations, and the mining regulations. We have a plan in place for updating those as well. There is also FNCIDA, which my colleagues work with. It provides an option for incorporation, by reference, of provincial regulations to deal with the environment on reserve.