NATO Project Plan URANIUM EXTRACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS NATO Project Plan Project Duration 2 years

NATO Project Plan Project Management Co-Directors: –I. Shishkov - PPD, Kazatomprom, Almaty, Kazakhstan –M. Burkitbayev, Al-Farabi University, Almaty, Kazakhstan –B. Tolongutov, Kara Balta Ore Combinate, Kara Balta, Kyrgyzstan –M. Yunusov, Vostokredmet, Khudjand, Tajikistan –A. Kist, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan –P. Stegnar - NPD, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia End-users: –Ministry of Environmental Protection, Almaty, Kazakhstan –Ministry of Ecology and Emergencies, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan –State Committee on Environment and Forestry, Dushanbe, Tajikistan –State Committee for Nature Protection, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

NATO Project Plan Sites selected for evaluation Kurday Shu-Sarysu: Kazakhstan Shekaftar:Kyrgyzstan Taboshar/Degmai: Tajikistan Yangiabad:Uzbekistan

NATO Project Plan Main Equipment Gamma spectrometric system – 4 pcs Portable instantaneous Rn measurement system with a set of scintillation cells – 4 pcs

NATO Project Plan Proposed Funding - items Equipment – 280,000 € Equipment – 280,000 € Field work expenses (travel Field work expenses (travel and subsistence, analyses and subsistence, analyses 70,000 € 70,000 € Training – 30,000 € Training – 30,000 € Project management – Project management – 50,000 € 50,000 € Total costs: 430,000 €

NATO Project Plan Proposed Funding - institutions Volkovgeologia (VOL), Kazakhstan – 70,000 € Al-Farabi University (AFU), Kazakhstan – 55,000 € Kara Balta Institute of Ecology (KB), Kyrgyzstan – 85,000 € Vostokredmet (VR), Tajikistan – 85,000 € Institute of Nuclear Physics, Uzbekistan (INP) - 85,000 € Jozef Stefan Institute (JSI), Slovenia – 50,000 € Total costs: 430,000 €:

NATO Project Plan Workplan 1 st Quarter 2006: purchase equipment 2 nd Quarter 2006: training 3 rd and 4 th Quarter 2006: radiological assessment missions 1 st and 2 nd Quarter 2007: completion of analysis and on-the-job training, group training 3 rd Quarter 2007: final assessment of radiological situation 4 th Quarter 2007: completion and presentation of project report

NATO Project Plan International Cooperation with OSCE, UNEP, UNDP – ENVSEC Initiative in the Ferghana Valley with IAEA – Technical Co-operation Assistance programme for , 1 regional and 2 national projects (in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) with ISTC with the Government of Norway with the World Bank