1. NATO Project Plan 981742 1 URANIUM EXTRACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS NATO Project Plan Project Duration 2 years

2. NATO Project Plan 981742 2 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

3. NATO Project Plan 981742 3 Sites selected for evaluation Kurday Shu-Sarysu: Kazakhstan Shekaftar:Kyrgyzstan Taboshar/Degmai: Tajikistan Yangiabad:Uzbekistan

4. NATO Project Plan 981742 4 Main Equipment Gamma spectrometric system – 4 pcs Portable instantaneous Rn measurement system with a set of scintillation cells – 4 pcs

5. NATO Project Plan 981742 5 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 € 280 50 30 70

6. NATO Project Plan 981742 6 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 €:

7. NATO Project Plan 981742 7 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

8. NATO Project Plan 981742 8 International Cooperation with OSCE, UNEP, UNDP – ENVSEC Initiative in the Ferghana Valley with IAEA – Technical Co-operation Assistance programme for 2005-2006, 1 regional and 2 national projects (in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) with ISTC with the Government of Norway with the World Bank