The Yukon government’s $21.4-million supplementary budget received second reading in the legislature Monday afternoon, with substantial increases for the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources (EMR).

The original territorial budget for the 2014-15 fiscal year, tabled last spring, was an unprecedented $1.3 billion.

The Energy department is slated to receive the largest top-up, with $12.4 million set aside for operations and maintenance funding.

The extra cash, amounting to 15 per cent of EMR’s spring budget allocation of $81.9 million, stems from shifts in Type-2 mine site arrangements with the federal government.

“What this is reflecting is a change to the 2014-15 Type-2 work plan,” said Mark Tubman, a senior official with the Department of Finance.

Type-2 sites refer to abandoned mines identified during the devolution of powers from Ottawa to the territory in 2003 as having potential “environmental liabilities” that required substantial funding for cleanup and reclamation.

Details of the work plan — a negotiated arrangement between Canada and the Yukon — will likely emerge later in the legislative sitting, Tubman said.

The Yukon Housing Corp. will receive $6.7 million — about 16 per cent of its initial budget — for capital projects. Roughly $3.5 million is slated to go toward the Alexander Street seniors’ residence.

A bump-up of $350,000 will go to the Mayo seniors’ housing facility as well.

Another $2 million was “revoted” for loan programs.

“They had a number of things that were started last year that didn’t get completed,” Tubman noted.

Revoting occurs when funding for projects or services that went unspent is “revoted” back into a departmental budget so it can be used — later than planned — for the initial purpose.

Roughly two-thirds of the $1.7 million Community Services is set to receive will go toward replacing the slot machines at Diamond Tooth Gertie’s Gambling Hall in Dawson City, a big boon for the Kondike Visitor Association, Tubman said.

Meanwhile, Teslin residents will have to wait until the new year to see upgrades to the Nisutlin Bay Bridge, originally scheduled to undergo work this fall.

That means a full $12.5 million is being retracted from the supplementary budget, perhaps to be re-injected next year for repairs to the Alaska Highway’s longest bridge.

The Department of Tourism and Culture will see an extra $2.7 million this fall, the bulk of it for “enhanced domestic marketing,” especially television ads. Half of that promo cash is recoverable from Ottawa, Tubman said.

Health and Social Services saw an increase in medical travel and physician claims, sucking $3.3 million — the majority of its fall top-up — from the fall budget.