Public Comment Period on Intent to Make a Determination
Modernize Chemical and Biological Laboratories

March 11, 2021 — The Department of National Defence must decide whether the proposed project is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects.

To help inform this decision, the Department of National Defence is inviting comments from the public on the project and its potential effects on the environment. All comments received will be considered public. For more information, individuals should consult the Privacy Notice on the Registry website.

Written comments must be submitted by April 9, 2021 to:

Mr. Demetre Bomis, Project Manager
Director General Infrastructure and Environment Engineering Services, 101 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0K2
E-mail Address: demetre.bomis@forces.gc.ca

The Proposed Project

The Department of National (DND) proposes to construct a facility to assess the neurobehavioral impacts from blasts suffered by soldiers during deployment.

The Blast Injury Programme is a multi-centre DRDC initiative that will bring together several capabilities to address medical injuries inflicted on soldiers by exposure to blast; blast injury in the form of neurotrauma; shock from massive hemorrhage; and crush injury. Three other DRDC Centres will be involved at some level in the programme with the work from DRDC Suffield providing critical information to each Centre.

DND, at Canadian Forces Base Suffield is to execute a project to design the facility in 2021, with construction to follow in 2022 or later.