British Columbia Order in Council — Amendment to Placer Mining Waste Control Regulation (O.C. 296/2021)

O.C. 296/2021

British Columbia — Orders in Council

PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ORDER OF THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL Order in Council No. , Approved and Ordered Lieutenant Governor Executive Council Chambers, Victoria On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Placer Mining Waste Control Regulation, B.C. Reg. 107/89, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule. Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy Presiding Member of the Executive Council (This

part is for administrative purposes only and is not part of the Order.) Authority under which Order is made: Act and section: Environmental Management Act, S.B.C. 2003, c. 53, s. 138 (2) (

s) Other: OIC 524/89 R10467277 May 17, 2021

SCHEDULE

Section of the Placer Mining Waste Cont rol Regulation, B.C. Reg. 107/89, is repealed and the following substituted:

Definitions In this regulation: “Act” means the Environmental Management Act; “placer mineral” has the same meaning as in the Mineral Tenure Act. 2

Section is amended by striking out “ Environmental Management Act” and substituting “Act”. 3

Section 3 (

c) is repealed and the following substituted: (

c) mining production where (

i) neither mercury nor chemicals are used, (ii) tailings are discharged to a tailings pond with a minimum of 0.5 m freeboard, and (iii) the water in the tailings pond (

A) is pumped back to the operation for reuse, (

B) is left in the pond and allowed to seep into the ground in a manner which does not result in suspended solids entering a body of water at any point downstream of the operation, or (

C) is partly pumped back as referred to in clause (

A) and is partly left as referred to in clause (B). 4 The following

section is added: Transition – permit application in progress 4

(1) This

section applies to a person who is exempt from

section 6 (2) and (3) of the Act in respect of discharges referred to in

section 3 (c) (

i) of this regulation as it read immediately before the coming into force of this section.

(2) A person to whom this

section applies, other than a person who is exempt from

section 6 (2) and (3) of the Act in respect of discharges referred to in

section 3 (

c) of this regulation, as it reads after the coming into force of this section, is exempt from

section 6 (2) and (3) of the Act in respect of discharges referred to in subsection (1) of this

section (

a) if the person applies befo re January 1, 2022 to a director for a permit under

section of the Act in relation to the discharge, and (

b) until the date a director makes a d ecision in relation to the person’s permit application.

Document details

Collection	British Columbia — Orders in Council
Citation	O.C. 296/2021
Type	order_in_council
Volume / chapter	arc oic 0296 2021
Language	en
Format	pdf
Source	PROVINCIAL
Identifier	c2640fa691e4861fe4f18659123b22e8abf14a29

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