The policy applies in:
all vulnerable areas where the handling and storage of pesticide is a significant drinking water threat, except for the expansion of existing handling or storage facilities for pesticides within WHPA-A (existing activity or future activity); and
all vulnerable areas where the handling and storage of pesticide would be a significant drinking water threat except for the establishment of new handling or storage facilities for pesticides within WHPA-A (future activity).

The handling and storage of pesticide may only occur in accordance with an approved Risk Management Plan where:
the handling and storage is an existing activity for all vulnerable areas where the activity is a significant drinking water threat; or
the handling and storage is a proposed activity for all vulnerable areas, except WHPA-A, where the activity would be a significant drinking water threat.
Establishment of a Risk Management Plan is required. Therefore, the handling and storage of pesticide is designated for the purposes of s.58 of the Clean Water Act.

As a minimum, the Risk Management Plan shall contain:
1) product handling;
2) product storage;
3) record-keeping;
4) disposal methods;
5) spills response plan.

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.