The commission responsible for finding the so called Disappeared are believed to be due to start a new search.
The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR) was established in 1999.
John McIlwaine, who leads the forensic archaeological team who work alongside the ICLVR, said a new site was due to be examined.
“We have another site to investigate in the north of Ireland shortly, once the clearance comes through,” he said.
In June 2010 Mr McIlwaine led the forensic archaeology team which discovered the remains of Charlie Armstrong.
Mr Armstrong, 57, from south Armagh went missing on his way to Mass in 1981, he was believed to have been kidnapped and murdered by the IRA.
His body was buried in an area of peat bog land at Colgagh, County Monaghan, several miles from the border.
The ICLVR was established by a treaty between the British and Irish governments in 1999 following the Good Friday Agreement.
Its purpose is to obtain information in strictest confidence which may lead to the location of the remains of “the Disappeared” – those killed and buried in secret by banned paramilitary groups prior to 10 April 1998 as a result of the Troubles.
Sixteen people were murdered by republican paramilitaries and secretly buried in isolated parts of Ireland during the Troubles.
Nine bodies of the people known as the Disappeared remain unfound.
In 1999 the IRA admitted responsibility for killing and secretly burying 10 of the 16, while one was admitted by the INLA.
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