S10-136-80/5 TD 1276 (CCE/Prop)
20 October, 1961
Deputy Minister,
Department of Transport
Ottawa, Ontario
Dear Sir:
Re: Gap Filler Sites - Eastern Canada
Your files:26-10-7, 1653-788 (RE)
Please refer to your letters of 27 September and 4 August, 1961, concerning the payment of charges levied by paper and lumber companies and provincial authorities as a result of our clearing certain properties to be used as Gap Filler sites.
This department will assume responsibility for the payment of compensation, based on the approved Provincial rates for timber and pulpwood, as it has in the past in land acquisition programmes of this nature. During recent visits to your Montreal and Toronto real estate offices by two members of the RCAF staff engaged on the Gap Filler project, the question of stumpage charges were discussed with your managers and officials of the companies and Provincial departments involved. I understand that the areas in which our installations are to be constructed include the following:
The specifications for clearing of all the sites provides for the sale or use of the timber and pulpwood by the contractor which will result in a reduced contract price. This factor will vary with site locations and the expense involved in transporting the timber or pulpwood to the nearest commercial plant.
I would be pleased if you would ensure that your regional managers understand their part in these transactions. You will agree that information as to scaling, stumpage dues, sale of merchantable timber to the companies, description of what is considered merchantable timber and place of delivery of such timber must come to us from your field personnel before our contractor goes on the site. The questions to be settled in respect of property at these relatively small sites are numerous but as construction is to commence this Fall on seven of the installations in Quebec and the Maritimes and fourteen in Ontario the usual co-operation of your Ottawa and regional staffs is essential and will be appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
(E B Armstrong)
Deputy Minister
KA Conlin, F/L /MLM
CCE/Prop-3
19 oct 61
6-6909