Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations

Marginal note:Transitional authorization — eligibility

• 24 (1) The owner or operator of a wastewater system may apply to an authorization officer for a transitional authorization to deposit, via a final discharge point, effluent that contains any of the deleterious substances prescribed in section 5, if the respective averages of the substances prescribed in paragraphs 5(a) and (b), determined in accordance with subsection (1.1), exceed 25 mg/L.

• Marginal note:Transitional authorization – average concentrations

  (1.1) The owner or operator of a wastewater system must determine the averages referred to in subsection (1) by averaging, for each substance, the concentrations reported under subparagraphs 19(1)(b)(iv) and (v)

  • (a) if the applicable reporting period under subsection 19(2) is a calendar year,

    • (i) in the first completed monitoring report sent in accordance with subsection 19(1) and in which a deposit is reported; or

    • (ii) in the second monitoring report in which a deposit is reported, if completed and sent consecutively to the first report;

  • (b) if the applicable reporting period under subsection 19(2) is a quarter, in four consecutive monitoring reports of the first four to eight completed and consecutive monitoring reports sent in accordance with subsection 19(1).

• Marginal note:Transitional authorization issued in 2014

  (1.2) An owner or operator of a wastewater system to whom a transitional authorization was issued in 2014 under section 26, as it read before the day on which this subsection comes into force, is not permitted to reapply for a transitional authorization.

• Marginal note:Transitional authorization issued in 2014 – requirements

  (1.3) Sections 24 to 26, 28 and 30, as they read before the day on which this subsection comes into force, continue to apply with respect to any authorization referred to in subsection (1.2).

• Marginal note:Duration of authorization — point system in Schedules 2 and 3

  (2) The duration, set out in subsection 26(2), of a transitional authorization is based on the system for the allocation of points related to the final discharge point set out in the table to Schedule 2 and, if applicable, related to the system’s combined sewer overflow points set out in Schedule 3.