Policy Text:
To ensure spill prevention plans, contingency plans, and emergency response plans are updated for the purpose of protecting drinking water sources with respect to spills that occur within a wellhead protection area or intake protection zone along highways, railway lines, or shipping lanes, the following policies apply:
c. The Ministry of Transportation Ontario, Transport Canada and the Spills Action Centre are requested to work together to implement an education and outreach program to encourage all transportation businesses that ship goods through wellhead protection areas and intake protection zones to prepare spill prevention plans and spill contingency plans, to review these plans annually, and to update them, and train staff, as required.