KIEV, July 6 – The Emergencies Ministry expects that France's Novarka concern in September will submit a working project on the construction of a new safe containment structure at the Chernobyl Shelter facility to Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which ordered the project, Volodymyr Kholosha, the head of the State Agency for the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Management, has said.

"In September the concern should transfer the project to the customer, taking into account the recommendations of regulating bodies," he said.

Kholosha said that after the project is approved by the Chernobyl enterprise, the document will be sent to the interested ministries and bodies for examination, which will be completed by late 2011.