1. These Regulations may be cited as the Meat and Poultry Products Plant Liquid Effluent Regulations.

• 2. (1) In these Regulations,

  “Act”

  “Act” means the Fisheries Act; (Loi)

  “ammonia nitrogen”

  “ammonia nitrogen” means the nitrogen in ammonia that results from the operation of a plant and that is contained in the effluent from that plant; (azote ammoniacal)

  “biochemical oxygen demanding matter”

  “biochemical oxygen demanding matter” means the substance contained in the effluent from a plant that results from the operation of a plant and that will exert a biochemical oxygen demand; (matière ayant une demande biochimique en oxygène)

  “composite sample”

  “composite sample” means a sample obtained in accordance with section 7; (échantillon composite)

  “deposit”

  “deposit” means to deposit or to permit the deposit into water frequented by fish; (rejeter)

  “effluent”

  “effluent” means all wastewaters deposited by a plant and includes process water, wash water, tank drainage, storm water and wastes from water and wastewater treatment facilities, but does not include

  • (a) storm water that is protected from contamination by a deleterious substance prescribed by section 4 originating from the plant, where the average concentration of biochemical oxygen demanding matter in at least 3 samples of the storm water, taken at intervals of 15 minutes, does not exceed 50 mg/L, or

  • (b) wastewater from the plant that, prior to being deposited, is treated at a site outside a plant for the purpose of controlling the pH of the wastewater and removing from the wastewater the deleterious substances prescribed by section 4, in such a manner that

    • (i) the pH of the wastewater, determined in accordance with subsection 9(3), is between 6.0 and 9.0, and

    • (ii) the quantity of deleterious substances remaining in that wastewater after the treatment, when added to the quantity of deleterious substances deposited directly, does not exceed the deposit of deleterious substances authorized under section 5; (effluent)

  “equivalent month”

  “equivalent month” means a period of time equal to or greater than four weeks but not exceeding six weeks declared by the owner under subsection 12(2) or (3) for the purposes of these Regulations; (équivalent d’un mois)

  “existing plant”

  “existing plant” means a plant that commenced commercial production before March 31, 1977; (établissement existant)

  “expanded plant”

  “expanded plant” means any integrated or processing plant in which the total amount of finished product produced or any rendering plant in which the total amount of raw material processed during any year exceeds

  • (a) in the case of a plant that commenced production on or before January 1, 1971, 2.5 times the average annual amount of finished product produced or raw material processed in that plant during the five-year period from 1971 to 1975, or

  • (b) in the case of a plant that commenced production after January 1, 1971, 2.5 times the average annual amount of finished product produced or raw material processed in that plant from the date the plant commenced production to March 31, 1977; (établissement à capacité accrue)

  “finished product”

  “finished product” means the net quantity of saleable material produced by a plant; (produits finis)

  “grease”

  “grease” means the grease that results from the operation of a plant and that is contained in the effluent from that plant; (graisses)

  “Minister”

  “Minister”[Repealed, SOR/95-428, s. 1]

  “new plant”

  “new plant” means a plant that did not commence commercial production before March 31, 1977 and that commences commercial production on or after that date; (nouvel établissement)

  “operating day”

  “operating day” means a period of 24 consecutive hours or part thereof during which the plant is in operation; (jour d’exploitation)

  “owner”

  “owner” of a plant means the owner or operator or his authorized representative; (propriétaire)

  “plant”

  “plant” includes facilities intended primarily for the slaughtering, dressing, processing or edible or inedible rendering of any meat or poultry products and associated livestock holding and receiving facilities and truck washing areas but does not include facilities

  • (a) where only edible oils are produced,

  • (b) where only hides are processed, or

  • (c) where no slaughtering is performed and the entire finished product is retailed to the public on the premises; (établissement)

  “poultry integrated plant”

  “poultry integrated plant” includes any plant that slaughters and dresses poultry; (abattoir de volailles)

  “processing plant”

  “processing plant” includes any plant that is not an integrated plant and that performs operations subsequent to slaughtering and dressing but does not include rendering plants; (établissement de préparation)

  “raw material”

  “raw material” means the material that is received at a rendering plant for processing and used to produce a finished product and includes blood, bones, fat, grease, offal, feathers and waste meat and poultry products; (matières premières)

  “red meat integrated plant”

  “red meat integrated plant” includes any plant that slaughters and dresses meat other than poultry; (abattoir de bétail)

  “rendering plant”

  “rendering plant” includes any plant that performs operations solely for the purpose of edible or inedible rendering of meat or poultry products, with or without oil refining; (fondoir)

  “saleable material”

  “saleable material” includes dressed carcasses, processed meats, inedible offal, hides and rendered or renderable products that are produced by a plant; (produit vendable)

  “slaughtering day”

  “slaughtering day” means a period of 24 consecutive hours or part thereof during which slaughtering takes place; (jour d’abattage)

  “storm water”

  “storm water” means water run-off that results from precipitation of any kind that falls on a plant or that passes over or through the plant; (eaux pluviales)

  “total suspended matter”

  “total suspended matter” means the non-filterable residue that results from the operation of a plant, that is contained in the effluent from that plant. (matières totales en suspension)

• (2) and (3) [Repealed, SOR/95-428, s. 1]