Pulp and Paper Effluent Regulations

7 (1) The authority of the owner or operator of a mill or an off-site treatment facility under subsections 6(1) and (2) is conditional on the operator

• (a) installing, maintaining and calibrating monitoring equipment, and keeping records of that equipment, in accordance with section 8;

• (b) monitoring effluent in accordance with Schedule II and submitting to the authorization officer a monthly report of the monitoring results and production information in accordance with subsections 9(1) and (3);

• (c) notifying an inspector, without delay, of any result of a test conducted in accordance with Schedule II and of any result of any additional test that was conducted on samples collected in accordance with the procedures specified in that Schedule, other than in the case of a deposit out of the normal course of events, that indicates a failure or non-compliance with these Regulations and reporting the test results in writing to the inspector within 10 days after the notification;

• (d) submitting the identifying information to the authorization officer in accordance with subsections 10(1), (2) and (3);

• (e) preparing and updating annually a remedial plan describing the measures to be taken by the operator to eliminate all unauthorized deposits of deleterious substances in the case where effluent fails an acute lethality test conducted in accordance with Schedule II;

• (f) preparing an emergency response plan in accordance with section 11 and making it readily available on site to persons who are to implement the plan;

• (g) in the case of a mill, providing the authorization officer, in accordance with section 12, with

  • (i) the reference production rate for all finished product, and

  • (ii) if an authorization has been issued to the owner or operator under subsection 16(2), the reference production rate for all finished product other than dissolving grade sulphite pulp and the reference production rate for dissolving grade sulphite pulp;

• (h) in the case of a mill that treats, in addition to its own effluent, waste water from sources other than a mill, if an authorization has been issued to the owner or operator under subsection 16(1), submitting the values of B_o and S_o and the supporting data to the authorization officer in accordance with section 19;

• (i) in the case of an off-site treatment facility, submitting the value of A and the supporting data to the authorization officer in accordance with section 21;

• (j) submitting the information on outfall structures to the authorization officer in accordance with section 27, and depositing effluent only through those outfall structures;

• (k) complying with the requirements for environmental effects monitoring studies set out in sections 28 to 31; and

• (l) keeping available for inspection

  • (i) for at least five years, the information and data specified in section 8.2 of Reference Method EPS 1/RM/13 Second Edition and section 8.2 of Reference Method EPS 1/RM/14 Second Edition,

  • (ii) for at least three years, the results of all pH level and electrical conductivity tests conducted in accordance with Schedule II,

  • (iii) for at least five years, a remedial plan and every update of it,

  • (iv) for at least five years, an emergency response plan and every update of it, and

  • (v) for at least six years, all records, reports and data collected or prepared for the purposes of an environmental effects monitoring study.

(2) The authority of the owner or operator of a mill under subsection 6(1) is also conditional on the operator

• (a) not combining any treated effluent with water before the treated effluent is deposited; and

• (b) not combining any treated effluent with any other effluent before the treated effluent is deposited, unless neither the treated effluent nor the other effluent is acutely lethal or unless combining the effluents is authorized pursuant to an authorization under section 17.

(3) The authority of the owner or operator of a mill under subsection 6(3) is conditional on the operator

• (a) monitoring effluent in accordance with Schedule II and submitting to the authorization officer an annual report, or a series of partial reports covering each calendar year, of the monitoring results and production information in accordance with subsections 9(2) and (3);

• (b) submitting the identifying information to the authorization officer in accordance with subsections 10(1.1) to (3); and

• (c) preparing an emergency response plan in accordance with section 11, making it readily available on site to persons who are to implement the plan and keeping the plan and every update available for inspection for at least five years.

(4) The authority of the owner of a mill or an off-site treatment facility under section 6 is, if the owner is not the same person as the operator, also conditional on the owner exercising all due diligence to ensure that the operator meets the applicable conditions specified in this section.