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A. User Fees Act

User Fee	Fee Type	Fee-setting Authority	Date Last Modified	2007–08					Planning Years
User Fee	Fee Type	Fee-setting Authority	Date Last Modified	Forecast Revenue ($000)	Actual Revenue ($000)	Full Cost ($000)	Performance Standard	Performance Results	Fiscal Year	Forecast Revenue ($000)	Estimated Full Cost ($000)
Canada Mining	Regulatory	Territorial Lands Act	See Section B: Proposed amendments	6,600	5,671	Note 1	Current service standards are set in existing legislation and regulation: Northwest Territories and Nunavut Mining Regulations (NTNUMR) CMR — amendments	All applications processed within set time lines.	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11	6775 6775 6775	Note 1
Territorial Land Use	Regulatory	Territorial Lands Act Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act	1996	278	278	Note 1	Current service standards are set in existing legislation and regulation	All permits were issued within the regulated time frame.	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11	139 139 139	Note 1
Territorial Lands	Regulatory	Territorial Lands Act	1996	2,300	2,033	Note 1	Performance standards vary depending on research, negotiations and environmental assessment decisions and are shared with clients throughout the process.	Performance standards vary depending on research, negotiations and environmental assessment decisions and are shared with clients throughout the process.	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11	2320 2320 2320	Note 1
Frontier Lands Registration	Regulatory	Territorial Lands Act Canada Petroleum Resource Act	1988	88	89	Note 1	Standard requests to be processed within 10 working days. Requests that require additional research take additional time to process (requestor is advised of the delay at the time the request is made).	All standard requests were processed within the established timeline. A number of request necessitated further research which resulted in additional processing time.	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11	88 88 88	Note 1
Territorial Quarrying	Regulatory	Territorial Lands Act Mackenzie Valley Land Use Regulations	2003	0	0	Note 1	The issuance of a quarrying permit leads to the granting of a Land Use Permit. As such, there is no time line set in regulations to process/issue/reject a quarrying permit application.	Permits are issued once pre-conditions are met.	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11	0 0 0	Note 1
Territorial Water	Regulatory	Northwest Territories Waters Act	1992	16	21	Note 1	Performance standards vary depending on research, negotiations and environmental assessment decisions and are shared with clients throughout the process.	All permits and letter patent were issued once all pre-conditions were met.	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11	16 16 16	Note 1
		Nunavut Waters and Nunavut Surface Rights Tribunal Act	2002 (Note 2)
		Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act	2003
Territorial Coal	Regulatory	Territorial Lands Act	2003	0	0	Note 1	Exploration permits are issued once consultations are complete.	Permits are issued upon completion of consultations.	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11	0 0 0	Note 1
Fees charged for the processing of access requests filed under the Access to Information Act (ATIA)	Other products and services	Access to Information Act	1992				Response provided within 30 days following receipt of request; the response time may be extended pursuant to section 9 of the ATIA. Notice of extension to be sent within 30 days after receipt of request.	On-time responses provided in 93% of requests completed during fiscal-year 2007–08.	2008–09 2008–09 2009–10 2009–10 2010–11 2010–11	1,500 2,700 1,500 3,000 1,500 3,300	2,000 2,500 3,000
		s.11(1)(a)		1,340	1,810
		s. 11(1)(b)		3,353	3,037	1,144
Date Last Modified The Northwest Territories and Nunavut Mining Regulations (NTNUMR) are currently in the process of modernization. On November 29, 2007 by Order in Council the Canada Mining Regulations (CMR) was amended to the NTNUMR. During this process amendments were made to the Royalty and Leasing sections, with the remainder of the regulations left as they were written in 1977; amendments to these regulations is on going.
Note 1: The fee or service triggers a series of activities related to land and resource management and the protection of the environment, all of which are controlled by the nature and scope of the resource development projects, e.g. mine development. Note 2: The Water Regulations under the Nunavut Waters and Nunavut Surface Rights Tribunal Act are currently in the process of being written. Industry and other stakeholders have not yet been extensively consulted. Changes to the fee structure are still under consideration.

B. Policy on Service Standards for External Fees

External Fee	Service Standard	Performance Result	Stakeholder Consultation
Canada Mining	Current service standards are set in existing legislation and regulation: Northwest Territories and Nunavut Mining Regulations (NTNUMR) CMR — amendments	All applications processed within set time lines.	The NTNUMR (former CMR) are currently in the process of modernization. The royalty sections of the NTNUMR were amended in 1999, but the remainder of the regulations were left as they were written in 1977. The metric system is being introduced in this round of amendments, thereby changing the fee schedule to reflect the amounts required by hectares instead of acres. The mining industry and other stakeholders were consulted by various methods of consultation and no complaints about the changes were submitted. One new fee is being added to discourage nuisance protests against a claim. During this process amendments were made to the Royalty and Leasing sections, with the remainder of the regulations left as they were written in 1977; amendments to these regulations is on going.
Territorial Land Use	Current service standards are set in existing legislation and regulation.	All permits were issued within the regulated time frame.	Stakeholder consultation varies. It is done through regional communications strategies and various outreach activities as well as industry specific fora.
Territorial Lands	Performance standards vary depending on research, negotiations and environmental assessment decisions and are shared with clients throughout the process.	All lease and letter patent were issued once all pre-conditions were met (e.g. environmental assessment decisions, lease negotiations).	Stakeholder consultation varies. It is done through regional communications strategies and various outreach activities as well as industry specific fora.
Frontier Lands Registration	Standard requests to be processed within ten working days. Requests that require additional research will take additional time to be processed (requestor to be advised of the delay at the time the request is made).	All standard requests were processed within the established timeline. A number of request necessitated further research which resulted in additional processing time.	Stakeholder consultation varies. It is done through regional communications strategies and various outreach activities as well as industry specific fora.
Territorial Quarrying	The issuance of a quarrying permit leads to the granting of a Land Use Permit. As such, there is no time line set in regulations to process/ issue/ reject a quarrying permit application.	Permits are issued once pre-conditions are met.	Stakeholder consultation varies. It is done through regional communications strategies and various outreach activities as well as industry specific fora.
Territorial Coal	Exploration permits are issued once consultations are complete.	Permits are issued upon completion of consultations.	Stakeholder consultation varies. It is done through regional communications strategies and various outreach activities as well as industry specific fora.
Fees charged for the processing of access requests filed under the Access to Information Act (ATIA)	Response provided within 30 days following receipt of request; the response time may be extended pursuant to section 9 of the ATIA. Notice of extension to be sent within 30 days after receipt of request.	On-time responses provided in 93% of requests completed during fiscal-year 2007–08.	The service standard is established by the Access to Information Act and the Access to Information Regulations. Consultations with stakeholders were undertaken by the Department of Justice and the Treasury Board Secretariat for amendments done in 1986 and 1992.
Other Information Although application fees are stable from one fiscal year to another, as requesters become more familiar with the Act, they learn to specify theirs requests enough to avoid paying search and photocopy fees.