The policy applies in all vulnerable areas where use of land as livestock grazing or pasturing land is or would be a significant drinking water threat (existing activity or future activity).
Establishment of a Risk Management Plan is required. The use of land as livestock grazing or pasturing land may only occur in accordance with an approved Risk Management Plan. Therefore, the use of land as livestock grazing or pasturing land is designated for the purposes of s.58 of the Clean Water Act.
The Risk Management Plan shall satisfy the following provisions:
The Risk Management Plan shall be based on appropriate agricultural best management practices.
The Risk Management Plan shall contain measures that will prevent farm animals from accessing land that lies within three metres of the top of bank of a watercourse. A reasonable allowance can be made to provide a stream crossing where necessary.
The Risk Management Plan shall be renewed every five years or at the discretion of the Risk Management Official.

All locations for Risk Management Plans for existing activities shall be inventoried within three years and plans established with five years of the effective date of the Source Protection Plan.

Monitoring policies MP-24 and MP-25 apply.

MP-24: The Risk Management Official shall, by February 1 each year, provide to the local Source Protection Authority a summary report for the preceding calendar year that gives an inventory of the number of locations where Risk Management Plans will be negotiated. This inventory must be completed by February 1 of the year following the third anniversary of the effective date.

MP-25: The Risk Management Official shall, by February 1 each year, provide to the local Source Protection Authority a summary report for the preceding calendar year that gives information on the number of plans, a summary of the plans and a summary of any violations.