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Volume 54, No. 17

B.C. Reg. 163/2011

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

September 20, 2011

B.C. Reg. 163/2011 , deposited September 12, 2011, pursuant to the WATER ACT [section 101 (1), (2), (3), (5) and (8)]. Order in Council 428/2011, approved and ordered September 12, 2011.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the British Columbia Dam Safety Regulation, B.C. Reg. 44/2000, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— S. THOMSON, Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations ; I. CHONG, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

1 The British Columbia Dam Safety Regulation, B.C. Reg. 44/2000, is amended

(

a) by repealing

section 14 and substituting the following:

Transition — dam safety review and report

(1) Despite

section 7, if a dam

(

a) had a downstream consequence classification of low or very low under this regulation as it read immediately before June 9, 2011, and

(

b) had a classification of high, very high or extreme on June 9, 2011,

the dam owner must meet the requirements of paragraphs (

a) and (

b) of

section 7 (1) no later than December 31, 2013.

(2) Despite

section 7, subsection (3) of this

section applies to a dam if

(

a) the dam had a downstream consequence classification of high or very high under this regulation as it read immediately before June 9, 2011,

(

b) the dam had a classification of extreme on June 9, 2011, and

(

c) on June 9, 2011 the immediately preceding dam safety review in respect of the dam was conducted in a year set out in column 1 of the table in subsection (3).

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) of this section, the dam owner must meet the requirements of paragraphs (

a) and (

b) of

section 7 (1) no later than the date specified in column 2 in the table below opposite the year in which the immediately preceding dam safety review was conducted as set out in column 1 of the table below:

Column 1

Column 2

Item

Year of immediately preceding dam safety review

Date by which requirements in paragraphs (

a) and (

b) of

section 7 (1) must be met

2001 or 2002

10 years from the date on which the dam safety report in respect of the immediately preceding review was submitted to a dam safety officer.

2003, 2004 or 2005

December 31, 2013.

2006 and thereafter

The date specified for the classification of the dam in item 7 in the

Schedule 2 table.

(4) In respect of Items 1 and 3 of the table in subsection (3) of this section, if a dam owner meets the requirements of paragraphs (

a) and (

b) of

section 7 (1) on or before December 31 of the year in which the requirements must be met under subsection (3) of this section, the dam owner is deemed to have met those requirements within the time required. , and

(

b) in

Schedule 2, in column 4 of item 7 of the table in

section 2 by striking out " Every 10 years " and substituting " Not applicable ".

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