Northern Pipeline Socio-Economic and Environmental Terms and Conditions for the Swift River Portion of the Pipeline in the Province of British Columbia (SI/81-21)

108. Foothills shall not

• (a) use, transport or dispose of any radioactive materials, or

• (b) use herbicides or pesticides except for domestic use

unless such use, transportation or disposition, as the case may be, is approved by the designated officer.

• 109. (1) Foothills shall collect any liquid or solid wastes produced as a consequence of the construction, operation or abandonment of the pipeline and, where required by the designated officer, treat them in a manner satisfactory to the designated officer.

• (2) Foothills shall dispose of the liquid or solid wastes referred to in subsection (1) in a manner satisfactory to the designated officer.

110. Foothills shall not use

• (a) a natural waterbody, swamp, marsh, bog or fen as a lagoon for the containment of any liquid or solid wastes referred to in subsection 109(1); or

• (b) borrow pits as liquid or solid waste disposal sites unless such use is approved by the designated officer.

111. Foothills shall submit to the designated officer for approval any proposed location for a liquid waste lagoon or solid waste disposal site for use by Foothills during the construction of the pipeline.

112. Foothills shall minimize to the satisfaction of the designated officer any contamination of any waterbody or groundwater by waste from solid waste disposal sites.

113. Foothills shall establish procedures satisfactory to the designated officer for the handling and disposal of any waste containing a hazardous material.

• 114. (1) Foothills shall meet any standards of composition as may be specified by the designated officer for the effluent from a liquid waste treatment system used by Foothills.

• (2) Foothills shall discharge the effluent referred to in subsection (1) at times and under such conditions as are satisfactory to the designated officer.

115. Foothills shall establish procedures satisfactory to the designated officer to prevent access by carnivorous mammals and bears to waste disposal sites, incinerator sites or other waste storage or treatment sites and to minimize the attractiveness of such sites to such mammals and bears.

116. Foothills shall dispose of waste soil, rock, stumps, vegetation and other materials resulting from pipeline construction in such a manner as is satisfactory to the designated officer.

• 117. (1) Foothills shall, in such a manner as is satisfactory to the designated officer,

  • (a) monitor the operation of its liquid waste treatment facilities and the quantity and composition of effluent discharges therefrom, and

  • (b) monitor the effectiveness of its solid waste management procedures

  at such times as directed by the designated officer.

• (2) Foothills shall forthwith report the results of the monitoring referred to in subsection (1) to the designated officer.

• (3) Foothills shall take such remedial measures as directed by the designated officer in respect of solid waste management and liquid waste treatment.