Output-Based Pricing System Regulations

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• 45 (1) The person responsible for a covered facility must keep a record of the following information with respect to the covered facility and each unit within it, if applicable, for each compliance period

  • (a) the total quantity of GHGs from each specified emission type;

  • (b) the quantity of each GHG from each specified emission type;

  • (c) all data used for a calculation made under these Regulations, for each specified emission type and GHG, including data used to estimate missing data;

  • (d) all sampling, analysis and measurement data for each specified emission type and GHG;

  • (e) the methods used to quantify, sample, analyze and measure each specified emission type;

  • (f) the methods and data used to quantify production;

  • (g) the procedural changes made in data collection and calculations and changes to measuring devices used to quantify GHGs or production;

  • (h) the quantity of each GHG not included in the total quantity of GHGs under section 23 and the relevant specified emission type;

  • (i) the quantities of CO₂ captured, transported or stored expressed in tonnes and the data used to quantify that CO₂;

  • (j) the output-based standard calculated under section 37 for each specified industrial activity and all methods and data used to calculate that output-based standard;

  • (k) documents that demonstrate the maintenance, calibration and operation of measuring devices was done in accordance with these Regulations;

  • (l) if the person responsible for a covered facility sells thermal energy that was produced at the covered facility to other covered facilities or buys thermal energy from other covered facilities,

    • (i) the sales invoices or receipts for the thermal energy bought or sold,

    • (ii) the name of any covered facility from which thermal energy is bought or to which it is sold and the covered facility certificate number that was issued to the covered facility, and

    • (iii) the methods and data used to quantify the quantity of thermal energy bought or sold and the data in relation to the ratio of heat from the combustion of fossil fuel;

  • (m) any errors or omissions identified and the measures taken to correct them, with all supporting data and documentation;

  • (n) a copy of all permits issue pursuant to section 28; and

  • (o) documentation that demonstrates that the CO₂ was captured, transported and stored in accordance with the laws of Canada or a province or of the United States or one of its States.

• Marginal note:CEMS

  (2) For each compliance period during which a person responsible for the covered facility uses a continuous emissions monitoring system, they must comply with the record keeping requirements set out in section 8 of the Reference Method for Source Testing: Quantification of Carbon Dioxide Releases by Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems from Thermal Power Generation, published by the Department of the Environment in 2012.

• Marginal note:Availability of information

  (3) The record must be kept within 30 days after the information becomes available.

• Marginal note:Provision of records

  (4) A person who is required to keep a record of information under subsection (1), must, on the Minister’s request, provide a copy of that record to the Minister without delay.