Pulp and Paper Effluent Regulations (SOR/92-269)
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Pulp and Paper Effluent Regulations
SOR/92-269
Registration 1992-05-07
Regulations Prescribing Certain Deleterious Substances Related to the Effluent from Pulp and Paper Mills and Off-Site Treatment Facilities and Authorizing the Deposit of Limited Quantities of those Deleterious Substances in Certain Circumstances
P.C. 1992-961 1992-05-07
His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, pursuant to subsections 34(2), 36(5), 37(3) and 38(9) and paragraphs 43(g.1)Footnote * and (g.2)Footnote * of the Fisheries Act, is pleased hereby to revoke the Pulp and Paper Effluent Regulations, C.R.C., c. 830, and to make the annexed Regulations prescribing certain deleterious substances related to the effluent from pulp and paper mills and off-site treatment facilities and authorizing the deposit of limited quantities of those deleterious substances in certain circumstances, in substitution therefor.
Return to footnote *S.C. 1991, c. 1, s. 12(2)
SHORT TITLE
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Pulp and Paper Effluent Regulations.
INTERPRETATION
2. In these Regulations,
- “Act”
“Act” means the Fisheries Act; (Loi)
- “acute lethality test”
“acute lethality test” means the test to determine the acute lethality of effluent referred to in section 1 of Schedule I; (essai de détermination de la létalité aiguë)
- “acutely lethal”
“acutely lethal”, in respect of effluent, means that the effluent at 100 per cent concentration kills more than 50 per cent of the rainbow trout subjected to it during a 96-hour period, when tested in accordance with the acute lethality test; (létalité aiguë)
- “authorization”
“authorization” means an authorization issued under section 16 or 17; (autorisation)
- “authorization officer”
“authorization officer”, in respect of a province set out in column I of an item of Schedule V, means the person referred to in column II of that item; (agent d’autorisation)
- “Bo”
“Bo”[Repealed, SOR/2004-109, s. 1]
- “BOD”
“BOD” means the biochemical oxygen demand that is equal to the quantity of oxygen, dissolved in water, that is consumed by BOD matter, when tested in accordance with the BOD test; (DBO)
- “BOD matter”
“BOD matter”, in effluent, means any matter that consumes oxygen dissolved in water, when tested in accordance with the BOD test; (matières exerçant une DBO)
- “BOD test”
“BOD test” means the test to determine the BOD of an effluent referred to in section 3 of Schedule I; (essai de détermination de la DBO)
- “Br”
“Br”[Repealed, SOR/2004-109, s. 1]
- “D”
“D”[Repealed, SOR/2004-109, s. 1]
- “daily period”
“daily period”, in respect of a mill or an off-site treatment facility, means
(a) a period of 24 consecutive hours determined by the operator of the mill or the facility, in respect of which the operator has given notification to the authorization officer, or
(b) if no notification has been given to the authorization officer by the operator, a calendar day; (période de vingt-quatre heures)
- “Daphnia magna test”
“Daphnia magna test” means the test in respect of Daphnia magna referred to in section 2 of Schedule I; (essai sur Daphnia magna)
- “dissolving grade sulphite pulp”
“dissolving grade sulphite pulp” means any sulphite pulp that is purified by a bleaching process for use in the manufacture of regenerated cellulose products; (pâte au bisulfite pour transformation chimique)
- “effluent”
“effluent” means
(a) waste water treated by an off-site treatment facility, or
(b) waste water from a mill, other than waste water from the treatment of intake water, including process water, gas scrubbing water, boiler blow-down water, wash-down water, cooling water, leachate from any site at the mill where solid residues generated by any mill are treated or disposed of, and leachate from any site at the mill where wood chips or hogfuel are stored; (effluent)
- “finished product”
“finished product” means pulp or a paper product that has completed the production process at a mill; (produit fini)
- “mill”
“mill” means
(a) a factory that is designed or used to produce pulp or paper products, or
(b) if a complex consists of factories that are owned by different owners and that are designed or used to produce pulp or paper products, all of those factories that discharge some or all of their effluent into a common treatment facility that is owned by one of those owners,
and includes any facility that is owned or operated by the owner of any of the factories referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) and that treats effluent; (fabrique)
- “off-site treatment facility”
“off-site treatment facility” means a facility that treats effluent from a mill if the facility is neither owned nor operated by the owner of a mill; (installation extérieure de traitement)
- “operator”
“operator” means the person who operates, has control or custody of or is in charge of a mill or an off-site treatment facility; (exploitant)
- “outfall structure”
“outfall structure” means a conduit or other structure through which effluent is conveyed from a mill or an off-site treatment facility to a location where it is deposited in water frequented by fish, or in any place from which it may enter such water, or a conduit or other structure through which effluent is conveyed from a mill to an off-site treatment facility; (émissaire d’effluent)
- “owner”
“owner” means the owner of a mill or an off-site treatment facility; (propriétaire)
- “paper product”
“paper product” means paper, coated paper, paperboard, hardboard, boxboard, linerboard, insulating board, building board, corrugating medium, tissue, moulded cellulose product and any other product directly derived from pulp, but does not include viscose, rayon, cellophane or any other cellulose derivative, or medium density fiberboard as defined in American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard A208.2-2002, published on May 13, 2002; (produit de papier)
- “Port Alberni Mill”
“Port Alberni Mill” means the mill located in Port Alberni, British Columbia, that is owned by Norske Skog Canada Limited, its successors or assigns; (fabrique de Port Alberni)
- “pulp”
“pulp” means processed cellulose fibres that are derived from wood, other plant material or recycled paper products; (pâte)
- “Qd”
“Qd”[Repealed, SOR/2004-109, s. 1]
- “Qm”
“Qm”[Repealed, SOR/2004-109, s. 1]
- “Reference Method EPS 1/RM/13 Second Edition”
“Reference Method EPS 1/RM/13 Second Edition” means Biological Test Method: Reference Method for Determining Acute Lethality of Effluents to Rainbow Trout (EPS 1/RM/13 Second Edition), December 2000, published by the federal Department of the Environment, as amended from time to time; (méthode de référence SPE 1/RM/13 Deuxième édition)
- “Reference Method EPS 1/RM/14 Second Edition”
“Reference Method EPS 1/RM/14 Second Edition” means Biological Test Method: Reference Method for Determining Acute Lethality of Effluents to Daphnia magna (EPS 1/RM/14 Second Edition), December 2000, published by the federal Department of the Environment, as amended from time to time; (méthode de référence SPE 1/RM/14 Deuxième édition)
- “reference production rate”
“reference production rate” means the daily production of finished product of a mill as determined under section 12; (rythme de production de référence)
- “So”
“So”[Repealed, SOR/2004-109, s.1]
- “suspended solids”
“suspended solids” means any solid matter that is present in effluent; (matières en suspension)
- “suspended solids test”
“suspended solids test” means the test to determine the presence and quantity of suspended solids in effluent referred to in section 4 of Schedule I; (essai de détermination des matières en suspension)
- “transitional authorization”
“transitional authorization”[Repealed, SOR/2004-109, s. 1]
- “treat”
“treat”, in respect of effluent, means to subject the effluent to physical, chemical or biological action, other than dilution, in order to reduce or eliminate deleterious substances. (traiter)
- SOR/2003-3, s. 1;
- SOR/2004-109, s. 1;
- SOR/2008-239, s. 1.