Policy Edit

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SPR/SPA:

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Legal Effect

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Comment

Policy Text:

1) Waste disposal sites (future) shall be prohibited where the storage, generation or management of waste would be a significant drinking water threat, where these activities include:

a) Storage, treatment, and discharge of tailings from mines;
b) Landfarming of petroleum refining waste;
c) Landfilling (hazardous waste);
d) Landfilling (municipal waste);
e) Landfilling (solid non-hazardous industrial or commercial waste);
f) Liquid industrial waste injection into a well;
g) Storage of hazardous or liquid industrial waste (large facilities such as landfills and transfer stations); and
h) Storage of wastes described in clauses (p), (q), (r), (s), (t) or (u) of the definition of hazardous waste, or in clause (d) of the definition of liquid industrial waste (large facilities such as landfills and transfer stations).

2) Where a waste disposal site (existing) is in an area where the storage, generation or management of waste is a significant drinking water threat, the Environmental Compliance Approval that governs the activity shall be reviewed to ensure appropriate terms and conditions are included so that the activity ceases to be a significant drinking water threat, where waste disposal sites include:
a) Storage, treatment, and discharge of tailings from mines;
b) Landfarming of petroleum refining waste;
c) Landfilling (hazardous waste);
d) Landfilling (municipal waste);
e) Landfilling (solid non-hazardous industrial or commercial waste);
f) Liquid industrial waste injection into a well;
g) Storage of hazardous liquid industrial waste (at large facilities such as landfills and transfer stations); and
h) Storage of wastes described in clauses (p), (q), (r), (s), (t) or (u) of the definition of hazardous waste, or in clause (d) of the definition of liquid industrial waste (at large facilities such as landfills and transfer stations).

Timelines:
T-1: Prescribed Instruments (existing) shall be reviewed (and amended, as necessary) within 3 years of the date the Source Protection Plan takes effect, or such other date as the Director determines.
T-3: The relevant Ministry shall comply with the Prescribed Instrument policy (future) immediately upon the date the Source Protection Plan takes effect.

Monitoring Text:

(MON-4) The provincial ministry shall, by February 1 of each year, prepare and submit a report to the Source Protection Authority on the actions taken in the previous calendar year to achieve the outcomes of the source protection policy. Reporting shall include information related to the effectiveness of the policies in ensuring a threat ceases to be, or does not become significant, and any actions required to respond to a drinking water threat during the reporting period.