PCB Regulations (SOR/2008-273)

Marginal note:Maximum storage periods

• 21 (1) Despite any other provision in these Regulations and subject to section 22, no person shall store PCBs or products containing PCBs, other than those referred to in section 23, beyond the following time limits:

  • (a) one year, beginning on the day on which their use is no longer permitted under these Regulations or the day on which they are no longer processed daily or used, whichever is sooner, if the PCBs or products are stored at a facility that is not referred to in paragraph (1)(b) or (c);

  • (b) one year, if the PCBs or products are stored at an authorized facility that is a transfer site; and

  • (c) two years, if the PCBs or products are stored at an authorized facility that is authorized to destroy them.

• Marginal note:Transfer sites

  (2) If the PCBs or products containing PCBs are sent from one transfer site to another, the period referred to in paragraph (1)(b) begins when they are received at the first transfer site.

• Marginal note:Destruction

  (3) The owner or operator of the facility referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or (b) shall send the PCBs or products containing PCBs for destruction to an authorized facility that is authorized for that purpose within the time limit set out in those paragraphs.