Mr. Chair, I'll return to the process that we put into place for all contaminated sites. There's a very detailed and kind of deliberate way that we move through this.
We first identify potential sites. We can do that based on our own knowledge, but we can do that based on concerns raised from elsewhere. We will then collect and review as much documentation as we possibly can to identify what kinds of activities took place at that site, which could of course then inform the type of contamination that could potentially be there. We look not just at the contaminants, but also at the pathways and the receptors, so in other words, the contamination plus the way in which that contamination could potentially impact human health and the environment.
We'll then do initial testing that will give us a good characterization of what is on the site. That then leads us to the point at which we can classify a site. As you may have heard during the previous session, that classification is very important for the federal contaminated sites inventory. The classification prioritizes that particular site in the inventory and allows you to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources against it.
With that classification, we'll again have a really good sense of how important it is, because it really captures the risk to humans and the environment, and that will inform how we go about informing potential stakeholders, employees or anyone who could potentially be impacted by the contamination.