B.C. Reg. 375/96
O.C. 1480/96 and M271/2004
Deposited December 16, 1996
effective April 1, 1997

Environmental Management Act

Contaminated Sites Regulation

[includes amendments up to B.C. Reg. 343/2008, January 1, 2009]

Contents
Part 1 — Interpretation
  Definitions
Part 2 — Site Profiles
  Scope of "industrial or commercial" purpose or activity
  When site profiles must be provided
  Exemptions respecting the providing of site profiles
  Duty to provide a satisfactorily completed site profile
  Assessing and forwarding site profiles
  Duties of a director and the commission after receiving a site profile
Part 2.1 — Summaries of Site Condition
  7.1  Duty to provide director with summary of site condition
Part 3 — Site Registry
  Site registry
Part 4 — Fees
  Fees
  10  Review of report or plan by external contract reviewer
Part 5 — Contaminated Site Definition and Determination
  11  Definition of contaminated site
  12  Specification of applicable land, water, sediment and vapour uses and site-specific factors
  13  Repealed
  14  Wide area site
  15  Procedures for determination of contaminated site
Part 6 — Remediation Standards
  16  Remediation options
  17  Application of numerical standards for remediation
  18  Application of risk-based standards for remediation
  18.1  Application of risk-based standards for remediation at wide area sites
Part 7 — Liability
  19  Persons not responsible — transporters and arrangers
  20  Persons not responsible — sureties
  21  Persons not responsible — insurers and insurance brokers
  22  Persons not responsible — certain owners
  23  Persons not responsible — producers arranging for transportation
  24  Persons not responsible — construction on contaminated sites
  25  Persons not responsible — secured creditors
  26  Persons not responsible — receivers, receiver managers and bankruptcy trustees
  27  Persons not responsible — trustees, executors, administrators and other fiduciaries
  28  Persons not responsible — clarification of innocent acquisition exemption
  29  Persons not responsible — modification of lessor liability under section 46 (1) (e) of the Act
  30  Persons not responsible — lessors who provide surface access for subsurface use
  31  Persons responsible — municipalities
  32  Persons not responsible — transporters of contaminated soil
  33  Persons not responsible — contamination which is subject to a wide area remediation plan
  34  Repealed
  35  Determining compensation under section 47 (5) of the Act
  36  Remediation orders — timing for consent and notice
  37  Remediation orders — diminishing or reducing assets
  38  Minor contributors
  39  Voluntary remediation agreements
Part 8 — Contaminated Soil Relocation
  40  Class of sites defined for Part 8
  41  Exemptions for soil relocation and disposal
  42  Soil relocation to a landfill without a contaminated soil relocation agreement
  43  Application for a contaminated soil relocation agreement
  44  Conditions pertaining to a contaminated soil relocation agreement
  45  Numerical standards for contaminated soil relocation agreements
  46  Risk-based standards for contaminated soil relocation agreements
Part 9 — Remediation Plan Approval and Completion
  47  Approval in principle
  48  Covenants and financial security — general principles
  49  Requests for certificates
  49.1  Director may consider recommendations of approved professionals
  50  Financial security as a condition of a certificate
  51  Approvals in principle and certificates for part of a site
  52  Duties of director respecting approvals in principle and certificates of compliance
Part 10
  53  Repealed
Part 11 — Allocation Panel
  54  Allocation panel procedures
Part 12 — Public Consultation and Review
  55  Director's powers
Part 13 — Independent Remediation Procedures
  56  Repealed
  57  Notifications for independent remediation
Part 14 — Site Investigations
  58  Preliminary site investigations
  59  Detailed site investigations
  60  Summary of site investigations and remediation plans
  60.1  Notification of neighbouring site owners after site investigations
Part 15 — Orphan Sites
  61  Criteria for determining orphan sites
  62  High risk orphan sites
Part 16 — Professional Statements
  63  Professional statements
Part 17
  64–66  Repealed
Part 18 — Director's Protocols
  67  Director's protocols
Schedule 1
Schedule 1.1
Schedule 2
Schedule 3
Schedule 4
Schedule 5
Schedule 6
Schedule 7
Schedule 8
Schedule 9
Schedule 10
Schedule 11