Huron-Kinloss Township is receiving a $400,000 gift from the Nuclear Waste Management Organization. The money will go toward a community well-being reserve fund.
Huron-Kinloss has been studied for three years in an ongoing process by the NWMO in its search for a suitable area to place an underground storage facility for used nuclear fuel.
The township recently leaned it had passed the phase one study process, and it will now proceed to a second phase.
Mayor Mitch Twolan says council has not yet discussed the fund, but he expects it will do so in January.
"We won't be using it for township operations," Twolan said Tuesday.
The reserve fund will be used for projects, programs or services for community youth, scholarship programs for community youth, projects, programs or services for community seniors, projects or programs to support community sustainability, projects or programs to support community economic development and projects or programs to support energy efficiency.