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28 (1) A holder of a transitional authorization in respect of a wastewater system is authorized — during a given calendar year, quarter or month, determined in accordance with subsection 6(2), in the period of authorization — to deposit effluent that contains any of the deleterious substances prescribed in section 5 via the final discharge point if — during the previous calendar year, previous quarter or previous month — the effluent met the following conditions:

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Marginal note:Authorized deposits — fictional consolidated wastewater system

(2) A holder of a transitional authorization in respect of a fictional consolidated wastewater system referred to in section 4 is also authorized, during the given calendar year, quarter or month referred to in subsection (1), to deposit effluent that contains any of the deleterious substances prescribed in section 5 via the final discharge point of each of the original wastewater systems that constitute the fictional consolidated wastewater system if the effluent deposited via the final discharge point of each of those original wastewater systems — during the previous calendar year, previous quarter or previous month — met the conditions set out in subsection (1).

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(2) For the purpose of subsection (1), the period is

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• (b) a quarter, in any other case.

(3) The information referred to in subsection (1) is to be reported

• (a) for the period referred to in subsection (2), if that period is a calendar year or a quarter; and

• (b) for each month during that period, if that period is a quarter and the average daily volume of effluent deposited via all of the final discharge points during the previous calendar year in respect of that quarter was greater than 17 500 m³.

33 (1) Despite subsections 24(2) and 26(2), the authorization officer may terminate a transitional authorization at the end of a given calendar year, quarter or month determined in accordance with subsection 6(2), if the effluent deposited via the final discharge point of the wastewater system was not acutely lethal and if it met the conditions for the authorization set out in paragraphs 6(1)(a) and (b) during

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• (b) that given quarter and the three quarters immediately before that given quarter during which effluent was deposited via the final discharge point; or

6 (1) For the purpose of paragraph 36(4)(b) of the Act, the owner or operator of a wastewater system may — during a given calendar year, quarter or month, as determined in accordance with subsection (2) — deposit or permit the deposit of effluent that contains any of the deleterious substances prescribed in section 5 of these Regulations via each of the system’s final discharge points in any water or place referred to in subsection 36(3) of the Act if the effluent is not acutely lethal as determined in accordance with section 15, the maximum concentration of un-ionized ammonia in the effluent is less than 1.25 mg/L, expressed as nitrogen (N), at 15˚C ± 1˚C, and — during the previous calendar year, previous quarter or previous month, as the case may be — the effluent met the following conditions:

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(2) The maximum concentration and the averages referred to in subsection (1) must be determined on the following basis:

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• (b) each quarter, if the average daily volume of effluent deposited via all of the final discharge points during the previous calendar year was

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