Environmental Protection Amendment Act (Pre-Treatment of Hazardous Waste), 2002 Di Cocco, Caroline — Bill 236 (37th Parliament, 3rd Session)

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Bill 236, Environmental Protection Amendment Act (Pre-Treatment of Hazardous Waste), 2002

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Bill 236 2002

An Act to amend the

Environmental Protection Act

to require the pre-treatment

of hazardous waste

before it is used as landfill

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative

Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

1. The Environmental Protection Act is amended

by adding the following section:

Prohibition as to hazardous waste

40.1

(1) In addition to the

requirements under

section 40, no person shall deposit, or cause, permit or

arrange for the deposit of, hazardous waste as designated in the regulations

in, into or through any landfill site unless the hazardous waste is first

pre-treated in accordance with this

section and the regulations.

Pre-treatment standards

(2) The Lieutenant Governor in Council shall develop

pre-treatment standards that must be used before hazardous waste can be

disposed in, into or through a landfill site.

Same

(3) The pre-treatment standards may include the adoption of

existing standards and may include waste-specific treatment standards.

Incorporations

(4) The adoption of an existing pre-treatment standard as a

standard may include the adoption of changes to the existing standard made

from time to time after the existing pre-treatment standard is adopted if the

existing pre-treatment standard is of a legislative nature.

Types of standards

(5) Pre-treatment standards shall rely on current technical

treatment abilities to achieve a prescribed limit and shall be based on,

(

a) processing by specific technology, including processing by

incineration, by thermal recovery and by physical or chemical treatment;

(

b) meeting a specified contaminant concentration level either in leachate

or in a bulk concentration.

Transition

(6) Standards for the pre-treatment of hazardous waste made

under this

section may be phased in over two years, but the Lieutenant

Governor in Council shall develop final pre-treatment of hazardous waste

standards within two years after the day this

section comes into force.

Definition

(7) In this section,

"landfill site" means a waste disposal site at which waste is disposed of

by placing it on or in land.

2. Subsection 176 (4) of the Act, as amended by

Statutes of Ontario, 1992,

chapter 1,

section 34, 1997,

chapter 7,

section 4

and 2001,

chapter 9,

Schedule G,

section 5, is amended by adding the

following paragraph:

(

a) governing the pre-treatment of hazardous waste;

Commencement

3. This Act comes into force on the day it receives

Royal Assent.

Short title

4. The

short title of this Act is the Environmental

Protection Amendment Act (Pre-Treatment of Hazardous Waste),

2002 .

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Bill amends the Environmental Protection Act by requiring the

pre-treatment of hazardous waste before it is disposed of in a landfill.

Date Bill stage Activity Committee

December 11, 2002

First Reading

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

December

11, 2002

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent :

Coming into force :Royal Assent.

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Collection	Ontario — Bills
Citation	Bill 236, 37-3
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	p37 s3 bill 236 html
Language	en
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Source	PROVINCIAL
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