THE ALBERTA GAZETTE,

PART II, AUGUST 15, 1997

Alberta Regulation 140/97

Marketing of Agricultural Products Act

ALBERTA SOFT WHEAT PRODUCERS MARKETING

AMENDMENT REGULATION

Filed: July 24, 1997

Made by the Alberta Soft Wheat Producers Commission pursuant to

section 26

of the Marketing of Agricultural Products Act.

1 The Alberta Soft Wheat Producers Marketing Regulation (AR 259/90) is

amended by this Regulation.

Section 2 is repealed and the following is substituted:

Service charges

2 Any producer who sells any regulated product shall pay to the

Commission a service charge in the amount of $0.50 per metric tonne or

portion of a metric tonne of regulated product sold.

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Alberta Regulation 141/97

Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act

LUBRICATING OIL MATERIAL RECYCLING AND

MANAGEMENT BY-LAW

Filed: July 24, 1997

Approved by the Alberta Used Oil Management Association pursuant to

section

8 of the Lubricating Oil Material Recycling Management Regulation.

Table of Contents

Definitions 1

Recycling fund established 2

Registration 3

Security 4

Environmental handling charge 5

Return and payment of environmental handling charge 6

Assessments 7

Interest 8

Charges in trust 9

Recovery of charge 10

Records 11

Confidentiality 12

Expiry 13

Coming into force 14

Definitions

1(1) In this By-law,

(a) "calendar quarter" means a period of 3 months beginning on the

first day of January, April, July or October in each calendar year;

(b) "environmental handling charge" means the environmental

handling charge referred to in

section 5;

(c) "Fund" means the Lubricating Oil Material Recycling and

Management Fund;

(d) "process oil" means oil that is not recoverable because it is

fully consumed in a process or is incorporated in another product;

(e) "registrant" means a supplier or end user who is registered

under

section 5 of the regulation;

(f) "regulation" means the Lubricating Oil Material Recycling and

Management Regulation.

(2) Terms that are defined in the regulation have the same meaning when

they are used in this By-law.

Recycling fund established

2(1) There is hereby established an industry operated recycling fund to be

called the "Lubricating Oil Material Recycling and Management Fund", which

shall be used to provide or pay for any or all of the following:

(

a) establishing and administering a lubricating oil material waste

minimization, recycling and management program;

(

b) education programs for the purpose of the lubricating oil

material waste minimization, recycling and management program;

(

c) expenditures incurred in the collection, transportation,

storage, processing and disposal of lubricating oil material;

(

d) research and development activities related to lubricating oil

material management;

(

e) promotion and development for marketing the products of

lubricating oil material recycling.

(2) The following shall be deposited into the Fund:

(

a) environmental handling charges on lubricating oil material, as

provided for in this By-law;

(

b) gifts, donations and bequests to the Fund.

(3) Investment income earned on deposits of the Fund accrues to and forms

part of the Fund.

(4) Salaries, fees, costs, expenses and liabilities incurred in the

administration of the Fund shall be paid out of the Fund.

(5) The Association shall administer the Fund in accordance with the Act,

the regulation and this By-law.

Registration

3(1) An application for registration by a person referred to in

section 5

of the regulation must be in a form acceptable to or provided by the

Association and must contain the information required by the Association.

(2) The registration fee to be paid by an applicant for registration is

$200.

(3) If the Association registers an applicant it shall assign a

registration number and issue a certificate of registration to the

registrant and shall notify the registrant in writing of the number and the

effective date of registration.

Security

4 The Association may require an applicant for registration or a

registrant

(

a) to provide security to the Association, or

(

b) to provide to the Association evidence of security

in a form and amount that is acceptable to the Association for the purpose

of ensuring that the applicant or registrant exercises the powers and

carries out the duties as registrant in accordance with the Act, the

regulation and this By-law.

Environmental handling charge

5(1) A registrant who, being a supplier, supplies lubricating oil material

through any of the transactions described in

section 1(

j) of the regulation

shall levy and collect as a surcharge from the person to whom the

lubricating oil material is supplied an environmental handling charge in

the amount prescribed for that class of lubricating oil material by by-law

of the Association.

(2) A registrant who, being an end user, imports lubricating oil material

into Alberta for the end user's own business use shall pay to the

Association as a surcharge an environmental handling charge in the amount

prescribed for that class of lubricating oil material by by-law of the

Association.

(3) No environmental handling charge shall be levied or paid in the case

of a transaction for the following types of lubricating oil:

(

a) two-cycle oil;

(

b) chain oil;

(

c) rockdrill oil;

(

d) marine oil;

(

e) metal working oil;

(

f) saw guide oil used to cool and lubricate cutting operations;

(

g) waylube oil used to lubricate metal machining operations;

(

h) textile oil used to lubricate sewing needles.

(4) Subsection (3) does not exempt the oil container in which the

lubricating oil is contained.

(5) It is the intent of this By-law that the environmental handling charge

in respect of a particular lubricating oil material be levied or paid only

once.

Return and payment of environmental handling charge

6(1) A registrant shall

(

a) complete and file with the Association at its head office a

return in respect of each reporting period not later than 30 days after the

end of the reporting period, and

(

b) remit to the Association with the return all environmental

handling charges the registrant has collected or for which the registrant

is liable under

section 5 during the reporting period.

(2) A return shall be in a form acceptable to the Association.

(3) Unless the Association directs otherwise, the reporting period for the

purposes of this

section is a calendar quarter.

(4) The Association may in writing at any time extend the time for filing

a return.

Assessments

7(1) Where

(

a) a registrant fails to file a return in accordance with

section

6, or

(

b) the Association reasonably believes that a return that has been

filed is incorrect or misleading,

the Association may assess the amount of environmental handling charges to

be remitted by the registrant in respect of the reporting period.

(2) Where a registrant fails to collect or remit an environmental handling

charge during a reporting period, the Association may assess the

environmental handling charge in an amount equal to the amount of the

environmental handling charge that the registrant failed to collect or

remit.

(3) Where the Association makes an assessment under subsection (1) or (2),

the registrant shall remit

(

a) the amount of the assessment, or

(

b) where a return has been filed and a remittance made, the

amount, if any, by which the amount of the assessment exceeds the amount

remitted,

and the remittance is due and payable from the time the person receives

notice of the assessment.

Interest

8 Interest is payable by a registrant on environmental handling charges

that the registrant fails to remit as required by this By-law, and is

payable at the rate of 1% per month, compounded at a rate of 12.68% per

year, from the date the unpaid amount is due until the amount is paid.

Charges in trust

9 A registrant holds all environmental handling charges referred to in

section 5 in trust for the Association.

Recovery of charge

10 An environmental handling charge and any interest owing in respect of

it are recoverable by the Association in an action in debt.

Records

11 A registrant shall

(

a) keep records of the registrant's transactions in lubricating

oil material and of the amount of the applicable environmental handling

charge,

(

b) make those records available

(

i) for inspection by the Association and

representatives of the Department of Environmental Protection, and

(ii) for audit at the times and by a person designated

by the Association, and

(

c) provide to the Association on request information in respect of

the registrant's transactions in lubricating oil material.

Confidentiality

12 Where the Association or a representative of the Department of

Environmental Protection acquires information under this By-law from a

registrant and the information relates to a trade secret, process or

technique that the registrant providing the information keeps confidential,

the Association or the representative, as the case may be, shall take all

reasonable steps to ensure that the information is not used or released in

a form or manner that is likely to undermine the confidentiality.

Expiry

13 For the purpose of ensuring that this By-law is reviewed for ongoing

relevancy and necessity, with the option that it may be re-passed in its

present or an amended form following a review, this By-law expires on

October 31, 2002.

Coming into force

14(1) This By-law, except

section 5, comes into force on the date on which

it is filed.

(2) Section 5 comes into force on September 1, 1997.