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Aerial and ground surveys are underway in several locations across northern Ontario as the Nuclear Waste Management Organization moves through its current set of investigations of 18 areas mapped out over the last year by the NWMO as "potentially suitable" for a deep geological repository for high level nuclear waste. As of January 2015, over 300,000 hectares had been "withdrawn" from mineral exploration or other changes to land tenure  "while the Nuclear Waste Management Organization conducts preliminary field assessment activities". Seven sites associated with Ignace and Hornepayne were withdrawn in November 2013; an additional 11 sites associated with White River, Manitouwadge and Elliot Lake were withdrawn in January 2015. According to the NWMO preliminary assessment findings released in January 2015, Blind River is associated with the sites north of Elliot Lake and remains in the NWMO "Learn More" program, i.e. the current steps of the siting process. Two sites were also withdrawn near Schreiber; the NWMO has announced that it will not continue study of those 2 sites.

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