Table of Contents - Contaminated Sites Regulation

B.C. Reg. 375/96
O.C. 1480/96

Deposited December 16, 1996
effective April 1, 1997

Environmental Management Act

Contaminated Sites Regulation

Note: Check the Cumulative Regulation Bulletin 2015 and 2016
for any non-consolidated amendments to this regulation that may be in effect.

[includes amendments up to B.C. Reg. 184/2016, July 19, 2016]

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Contents
Part 1 — Interpretation
	1	Definitions
Part 2 — Site Profiles
	2	Scope of "industrial or commercial" purpose or activity
	3	When site profiles must be provided
	4	Exemptions respecting the providing of site profiles
	5	Duty to provide a satisfactorily completed site profile
	6	Assessing and forwarding site profiles
	7	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
	8	Site registry
Part 4 — Fees
	9	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	13	Repealed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