Reduction in the Release of Volatile Organic Compounds (Storage and Loading of Volatile Petroleum Liquids) Regulations (SOR/2025-88)

Marginal note:Existing high benzene tanks

• 134 (1) Despite subsection 33(1) and subject to subsections (2) and (3), the requirements set out in section 38 do not apply to existing high benzene tanks until the first anniversary of the day on which these Regulations come into force.

• Marginal note:Three or more tanks

  (2) Subject to subsection (3), if, on the day on which these Regulations come into force, a facility has three or more existing high benzene tanks that contain a liquid with a benzene concentration greater than 20% by weight and that do not meet the requirements set out in section 38, the operator of that facility must

  • (a) ensure that on the first anniversary of that day, at least two of the existing high benzene tanks meet the requirements of section 38 and that the remainder of the existing high benzene tanks are no longer high benzene tanks or are equipped with a temporary vapour control system; and

  • (b) ensure that on the second anniversary of the day on which these Regulations come into force, all of the existing high benzene tanks meet the requirements of section 38 or are no longer high benzene tanks.

• Marginal note:Exception — Interim Order

  (3) If an existing high benzene tank is located at a facility that was subject to the Interim Order Respecting Releases of Benzene from Petrochemical Facilities in Sarnia, Ontario made by the Minister on May 16, 2024 and published in Part 1 of the Canada Gazette on May 21, 2024, the requirements of section 38 apply to that existing high benzene tank beginning on the day on which these Regulations come into force.

• Marginal note:Existing high benzene loading racks

  (4) Despite subsection 33(1), the requirements under section 42 do not apply to existing high benzene loading racks until the first anniversary of the day on which these Regulations come into force.