Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations

Marginal note:Extension

• 40 (1) A temporary authorization may, on application, be extended for successive periods of three years. If that application is based on a determination of the acute lethality of effluent referred to in paragraph 34(1)(a), it must contain the information referred to in subparagraph 35(e)(i).

• Marginal note:Issuance

  (2) The authorization officer must — based on the information contained in the application for the extension, the monitoring reports sent under subsection 19(1) and the original application for the temporary authorization referred to in section 35 — extend the authorization if it is established that, when the application for an extension was made,

  • (a) the effluent was acutely lethal because of the concentration of un-ionized ammonia in it; and

  • (b) the concentration of un-ionized ammonia in the water, determined in accordance with subsection 34(3), at any point that is 100 m downstream from the point of entry where effluent was deposited in that water via the final discharge point was less than or equal to 0.016 mg/L, expressed as nitrogen (N).