Prohibition of Asbestos and Products Containing Asbestos Regulations (SOR/2018-196)

Marginal note:Servicing equipment of nuclear facilities

• 11 (1) A person may import, sell or use a product containing processed asbestos fibres to service equipment of a nuclear facility before January 1, 2023, if there is no technically or economically feasible asbestos-free alternative available at the time of the import, sale or use, as the case may be.

• Marginal note:Use or sale — nuclear facility equipment

  (2) A person may use or sell the equipment referred to in subsection (1) if it was serviced using a product referred to in that subsection before January 1, 2023.

• Marginal note:Report and management plan

  (3) A person who uses a product containing processed asbestos fibres to service equipment of a nuclear facility in accordance with subsection (1) must

  • (a) prepare and implement an asbestos management plan that meets the requirements set out in Schedule 1; and

  • (b) submit to the Minister, before March 31 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the product is used, a report that includes the elements set out in subsection (4).

• Marginal note:Contents of report

  (4) The report must include the following elements:

  • (a) the name of the nuclear facility, its civic address in Canada and postal address;

  • (b) the name of the individual who is authorized to act for that nuclear facility and their title, civic address in Canada, postal address, telephone number and email address;

  • (c) the name and a description of the equipment of the nuclear facility that was serviced with the products containing processed asbestos fibres in the calendar year to which the report relates;

  • (d) the name and a description of each type of product containing processed asbestos fibres that was used to service the equipment of the nuclear facility in the calendar year to which the report relates;

  • (e) the estimated concentration and mass of asbestos in each product containing processed asbestos fibres that was used to service the equipment in the calendar year to which the report relates and the unit of measurement used to describe that concentration and mass;

  • (f) the number of products containing processed asbestos fibres that were used to service the equipment in the calendar year to which the report relates, by type of product; and

  • (g) a statement indicating that there was no technically or economically feasible asbestos-free alternative available at the time the equipment of the nuclear facility was serviced and that an asbestos management plan that meets the requirements set out in Schedule 1 has been implemented.