In the 1990s, the territorial government (then Northwest Territories) had a caribou camp with a fuel cache for doing caribou surveys. It was abandoned at some point. The abandoned camp/cache is located within the Ahiak (Queen Maud Gulf) Migratory Bird Sanctuary (MBS). The Ahiak Area Co-Management Committee (ACMC) is responsible for the day to day management of the Ahiak MBS and provides advice to the federal minister of Environment. The ACMC has asked that it be cleaned up. Environment and Climate Change Canada's Canadian Wildlife Service (Northern Region) is considering the feasibility of cleaning this site up as part of the protected areas program's work because the abandoned site is within a MBS and this is an important protected area for not only migratory birds, but caribou, muskox and other wildlife important to Inuit. The abandoned site was last visited by Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affaires Canada (CIRNAC) inspectors in 2015. The site consists of at least 44 full drums of fuel, and 23 partial or empty drums with no containment scattered across the camp site. Most of the drums are sunken into the ground (frozen in the active layer of the soil until late summer). There are also the remains of 2 wooden tent frames, 1 oil stove, jerry cans and various lumber and stove pipes scattered around the site. The site is located on a narrow spit of land between two large lakes and is not accessible by twin otter during the summer.This project proposes a crew (size to be determined with the contaminated site specialist, between 2 and 5) visit the site via helicopter in August 2021 to do a risk assessment, take samples and remove some non-hazardous debris (the possibility to camp on site and the debris to be removed will be determined with the contaminated site specialist). The following year, a crew of 4 will visit the site via helicopter in August, camp on site for 5 days (1 day in, 3 working days, 1 day out), dig out all drums, and then sling all drums and wood and waste using a helicopter to a suitable location where it could be picked up by twin otter the same or the following year (depending on the weather and COVID). Drums and waste would then be taken to Cambridge Bay for disposal. The schedule is dependant on Polar Continental Shelf Program's (PCSP) flight plans between March and September and it is also possible that the drums and waste could be picked up by twin otter on skis on Brichta Lake, but currently we are unsure of the feasibility of getting the pile of stuff from the spit down onto the lake ice during winter.