Response Organizations and Oil Handling Facilities Regulations (SOR/95-405)
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Response Organizations and Oil Handling Facilities Regulations
SOR/95-405
Registration 1995-08-15
Regulations Respecting the Procedures, Equipment and Resources of Response Organizations and Oil Handling Facilities for Use in Respect of an Oil Pollution Incident
P.C. 1995-1337 1995-08-15
His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Transport, pursuant to paragraph 657(1)(f) and subsection 660.9(1)Footnote * of the Canada Shipping Act, is pleased hereby to make the annexedRegulations respecting the procedures, equipment and resources of response organizations and oil handling facilities for use in respect of an oil pollution incident, effective August 15, 1995.
Return to footnote *S.C. 1993, c. 36, s. 6
SHORT TITLE
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Response Organizations and Oil Handling Facilities Regulations.
INTERPRETATION
2. In these Regulations,
- “Act”
“Act” means the Canada Shipping Act; (Loi)
- “area of environmental sensitivities”
“area of environmental sensitivities” means an area containing threatened, vulnerable or endangered species or locations of cultural or high socio-economic significance; (milieux sensibles)
- “designated port”
“designated port” means a designated port set out in section 1 of Schedule I to the Response Organizations Standards; (port désigné)
- “geographical area”
“geographical area” means an area that includes a designated port and is identified by a response organization as the area in which it intends to offer its services; (zone géographique)
- “oil”
“oil” has the same meaning as in subsection 660.2(1) of the Act; (hydrocarbures)
- “Oil Handling Facilities Standards”
“Oil Handling Facilities Standards” means the standards set out in the Transport Canada document TP 12402, published in August, 1995, as amended from time to time; (Normes sur les installations de manutention d’hydrocarbures)
- “on scene”
“on scene” means on site at an oil handling facility and at any other location where the oil handling facility deploys the equipment and resources identified in its oil pollution emergency plan in response to an oil pollution incident; (sur place)
- “operating environment”
“operating environment” means sheltered waters, unsheltered waters or a shoreline; (milieux d’utilisation)
- “Response Organizations Standards”
“Response Organizations Standards” means the standards set out in the Transport Canada document TP 12401, published in August, 1995, as amended from time to time; (Normes sur les organismes d’intervention)
- “sheltered waters”
“sheltered waters” means waters where on-water recovery operations for spilled oil can be carried out effectively without significant disruption by environmental conditions; (eaux abritées)
- “shoreline”
“shoreline” means the area between extreme low tide and the back shore area that may be affected by storm conditions; (rivage)
- “treat”
“treat” means to carry out an activity, in a manner that has the least detrimental impact possible on the environment, for the purpose of restoring an operating environment in which an oil pollution incident has occurred to its condition before the incident; (traiter)
- “unsheltered waters”
“unsheltered waters” means waters where on-water recovery operations for spilled oil may be significantly disrupted by environmental conditions. (eaux ouvertes)