Canada: Liability information management at AECL. Annex I-3

It is critical for decommissioning projects to have their records and information bases continually reviewed, assessed, migrated and updated, to ensure that the collection will be preserved on stable media to meet ongoing and changing requirements, technologies, formats and tools. Ongoing challenges, such as conflicting retention requirements, changes in record ownership, technological changes, migrations and advances, record destruction criteria, long term storage formats and long term records storage facilities, must be managed and addressed. The creation and implementation of the LIM programme has helped to ensure that the value of the records and information base required for both safe and cost effective liability management and decommissioning of AECL's sites and facilities is recognized, and that the base is managed effectively. The programme will continue to be refined and enhanced as AECL gains experience and knowledge with the full life cycle management of records and information with very long term retention periods