Treatment facilities have been constructed for waters from the Severniy, Severniy-Glubokiy and Kaula-Kotsclvaara mines in the Russian Federation. The smelter area was cleaned of heavy and non-ferrous metals, and new technology was introduced for processing coppcr-nickel concentrate. Several discharge points of industrial wastewaters will be eliminated as a result of closure of mining and metallurgical production, and their transfer to Monchegorsk. However, the “Development of a joint environmental monitoring program in the Norwegian, Finnish and Russian border area"14 project, with the objective of ensuring reliable and comparable monitoring data, was implemented from 2003 to 2006. Water quality assessment in Norway and Finland with the Russian Federation is not clear-cut.