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North Bay-Mattawa

Significant

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

MNR - Aggregate License

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Existing

Implemented

Aggregate licences within the Source Protection Area have been reviewed to ensure they are operating in accordance with the policy.

MNR - Aggregate Permit

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Existing

Implemented

There are no aggregate permits (Crown land) impacted by Source Protection policies.

MNR - Wayside Permit

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Existing

Implemented

There are no wayside permits impacted by Source Protection policies.

MECP – MRDWS – Fuel Handling & Storage

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Existing

Implemented

All municipal drinking water permissions where fuel storage and handling has been identified as a significant threat contain conditions to manage the threat and typically require the Owner to undertake an annual TSSA inspection of their fuel-oil system. To better manage ongoing alterations to fuel oil systems at municipal drinking water systems, during this round of renewals (occurring between 2024 and 2027), updated standard source protection conditions are being rolled out to all municipal drinking water permissions to address fuel storage and handling significant drinking water threats and ensure they reflect the most current version of the Directors Technical Rules under the Clean Water Act. The updated conditions will preauthorize alterations to fuel storage and handing at municipal drinking water systems under the condition the owner assesses all new and existing fuel storage and handling against the most current Technical Rules to identify if fuel storage and handling associated with the drinking water system is a significant drinking water threat. The conditions require documentation of the fuel storage assessment, implementation of annual TSSA inspections for any identified fuel storage significant threats, and require the owner to implement any additional source protection policies identified by their local source protection plan. The fuel storage assessments are to be reviewed regularly to ensure they remain up to date and conform to current policies. To date, 287 municipal drinking water licences have been renewed throughout the province, and contain these updated conditions. For those permissions that have not yet been renewed, alterations to fuel storage and handling are not yet preauthorized and still require an application to the ministry before they can proceed. These applications will continue to be reviewed by the ministry to determine if fuel storage or handling activities are being proposed and if these activities present a significant threat based on the most current Technical Rules. Where a significant threat is identified, conditions are added to the prescribed instrument (Drinking Water Works Permit or Municipal Drinking Water Licence) to address source protection plan policies, and typically include the requirement for the owner to undertake an annual TSSA inspection of the their fuel-oil system.

MTO - Fuel

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Existing

Implemented

There were no existing prescribed instrument applications affected by source protection policies. All existing MTO Aggregate/Wayside Permits, as well as dormant permits activated for a provincial highway contract, must include fuel handling and storage conditions in the site plan, as prescribed by regulation. This includes the installation of fuel storage tanks in accordance with the CSA B139 Installation Code for Oil-Burning Equipment and compliance with the strict conditions specified in the Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) Liquid Fuels Handling Code, 2017, as amended. Furthermore, MTO does not permit permanent or long-term fuel storage at MTO permit sites. These requirements ensure that activities are managed in a manner that reduces the risk of contamination.

Policy Text:

A prescribed instrument that is of a type listed below, issued where the threat from the handling and storage of fuel could be significant, shall contain conditions to manage the threat. A review of existing instruments and their conditions to manage these threats shall be completed within three years of the date the Source Protection Plan takes effect, or by a time determined by a Director as defined in the associated Act or Regulation, based on a prioritized review of prescribed instruments that govern the handling and storage of fuel in association with the named instruments.

This policy shall apply in the following vulnerable areas:

Mattawa WHPA-A and B;
Powassan WHPA-A and B1.

The prescribed instruments for this policy include:
1. Aggregate Resources Act: Section 8 site plans included in applications for licenses.
2. Aggregate Resources Act: Sections 11 and 13 licenses to remove aggregate from pits or quarries.
3. Aggregate Resources Act: Section 25 site plans accompanying applications for wayside permits.
4. Aggregate Resources Act: Section 30 wayside permits to operate pits or quarries.
5. Aggregate Resources Act: Section 36 site plans included in applications for aggregate permits.
6. Aggregate Resources Act: Section 34 aggregate permits to excavate aggregate or topsoil.
7. Environmental Protection Act: Section 39 for the use, operation,establishment, alteration, enlargement or extension of a waste disposal site.
8. Safe Drinking Water Act: Section 40 with respect to drinking water works permits issued by the Director.
9. Safe Drinking Water Act: Section 44 with respect to the municipal drinking water licences issued by the Director.

Monitoring Text:

M08-ECA: By February 1st of the year following the year in which the Ontario Ministry named as the implementing body is required to comply with the associated threat policy, that Ministry shall report to the SP Authority confirming implementation of the policy and how that has been accomplished.