Interpretation

1  In this regulation:

"Act" means the Waste Management Act;

"discharge" means the total amount of a solid, liquid or gaseous material introduced into the environment from works;

"emission" means the total amount of a solid, liquid or gaseous material emitted into the atmosphere from works.

 Operations exempt

2  (1)  The following operations are exempt from the Act and regulations:

(a) the discharge of domestic sewage to a sewage disposal system, as defined in section 1 of the Sewage Disposal Regulation, that serves only one single or one double unit dwelling;

(b) the discharge of domestic sewage to a sewage disposal system, as defined in section 1 of the Sewage Disposal Regulation, if

(i)  the discharge is not described in paragraph (a), and

(ii)  the estimated total sewage flow is less than 22.7 m³ a day and is not discharging into a surface watercourse or surface water body.

(2)  For the purposes of subsection (1) (b), the following conditions apply:

(a) the estimated sewage flow must be calculated using Appendix 1 of the Sewage Disposal Regulation;

(b) if a sewage disposal system serves more than one parcel of land, the estimated total sewage flow must be calculated by summing the estimated total sewage flow of all discharges of sewage directed to the sewage disposal system;

(c) if there is more than one sewage disposal system located within a strata plan or, if no strata plan applies, located on a parcel of land, the estimated total sewage flow must be calculated by summing the estimated total sewage flow of all discharges of sewage directed to all sewage disposal systems located within the strata plan or on the parcel of land.

(3)  The following operations are exempt from section 3 (2) and (3) of the Act:

(a) the discharge of wood waste which, to the satisfaction of a manager, is managed and applied in a reasonable manner as plant mulch, soil conditioner, animal bedding or for ground cover or foundation material at equestrian facilities or construction sites;

(b) emissions from properly designed auxiliary fuel fired refuse incinerators that serve remote industrial, recreational, exploration or construction camps with a design capacity of less than 100 persons;

(c) the discharge of the coarse coal refuse, waste rock or overburden into the environment provided the coarse coal refuse, waste rock or overburden are managed in accordance with a permit issued under section 10 of the Mines Act, where

"coarse coal refuse" means a granular residual solid composed of rock fragments and coal like material, excluding tailings, from the preparation of marketable coal in a coal preparation plant;

"overburden" means naturally occurring unconsolidated or poorly consolidated mineral or organic matter overlying bedrock, including but not limited to glacial till, gravel, clay and soil;

"tailings" means fine waste materials

(a) originating from a concentrator or coal preparation plant, and

(b) remaining in a water suspension;

"waste rock" means rock and granular residual solids, excluding tailings, removed from a mine or from a metal or industrial mineral concentrator and which contains insufficient valuable constituents to warrant further processing.

[am. B.C. Reg. 151/98.]