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SPR/SPA:

Risk:

FUL2

North Bay-Mattawa

Significant

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

MNRF - 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.

MNRF - Aggregate Permit

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Existing

Implemented

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

MNRF - 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 incoming applications to the Municipal Drinking Water Licencing Program are screened to determine if fuel storage or handling activities are being proposed or altered. Applications are reviewed to ensure conformance with significant drinking water threat policies. As part of the current round of licence renewals (with updated licences being issued between 2024-2027), licence conditions will be amended to ensure municipal drinking water system owners assess potential new and existing threats to drinking water per the most current version of the technical rules and any updated source protection plan policies, and implement mitigation measures where policies apply.

MTO - Fuel

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Existing

Implemented

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