My company is a small landlord and developer located in St. Jacobs Ontario. Many of our buildings are small commercial buildings in the historic downtown core of St. Jacobs.
1.The regulatory proposal indicates: “A plan [ESMP] would be required to be prepared, certified by a qualified person (QP) and registered on an online excess soil reuse registry prior to excess soil leaving a project area”. Will the MOECC review ESMPs?
I applaud efforts to more consistently protect the environment, regardless of the activity being conducted. Activities that have the potential for increased risk to the environment should be managed fairly and equitably, thereby increasing protection of the environment.
In my dealings with the public the fill brokers often advise the homeowners that they will provide a limited number of truck loads to their property but in most cases they come in and dump 100's of loads without their knowledge and they have no idea where the fill is coming from.
Proposed Excess Soil Management Plan: The proposed Regulation goes into great detail describing what must be included in an ESMP, including the number of soil samples to be analysed and from where they are to be taken but, as with the current version of O.
Good Day, With respect to the proposed regulation, is aggregate that is imported to a site (i.e. Granular A for a road base) considered excess soil if it is transported to another site (i.e. during road reconstruction) and used for a similar purpose?
The proposed regulation discourages the beneficial reuse of excess soil. It provides a new level of legislation that makes all clean fill “waste” and therefore “unacceptable” in the eye of the public and therefore their Municipal Councils.
It should be considered to that a Qualified Person perhaps need to get a licence to be create and Excess Soil Management Plan. Similar to that of a Non Agricultural Source Material (NASM) Plan developer.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Excess Soil Management Regulatory Proposal. On behalf of Infrastructure Ontario, I would like to submit the following questions and comments:
Council for the Township of Melancthon would like to acknowledge the Province’s initiative to address a problem faced by rural municipalities while at the same time seeking clarity on the future authority, if any, that municipalities will have in regulating the placement of fill within their muni
Requirements in Subsection 6 of Appendix A are currently as follow: Subsection 6 of the ESMP with the heading Excess Soil Receiving Sites Summary shall include the following information: a. A list of the addresses of each receiving site to receive excess soil from the project area b.
Sanjay Coelho
Senior Policy Analyst
Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change
Climate Change and Environmental Policy Division
Land and Water Policy Branch
40 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 10
Toronto Ontario M4V 1M2
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My company is a small landlord and developer located in St. Jacobs Ontario. Many of our buildings are small commercial buildings in the historic downtown core of St. Jacobs.
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My comments on the proposed amendments to O.Reg.153/04 are as follows:
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1.The regulatory proposal indicates: “A plan [ESMP] would be required to be prepared, certified by a qualified person (QP) and registered on an online excess soil reuse registry prior to excess soil leaving a project area”. Will the MOECC review ESMPs?
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I applaud efforts to more consistently protect the environment, regardless of the activity being conducted. Activities that have the potential for increased risk to the environment should be managed fairly and equitably, thereby increasing protection of the environment.
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In my dealings with the public the fill brokers often advise the homeowners that they will provide a limited number of truck loads to their property but in most cases they come in and dump 100's of loads without their knowledge and they have no idea where the fill is coming from.
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Proposed Excess Soil Management Plan: The proposed Regulation goes into great detail describing what must be included in an ESMP, including the number of soil samples to be analysed and from where they are to be taken but, as with the current version of O.
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What is the purpose for defining inert fill in reg 347?
If inert fill was to be removed entirely from Reg 347, what would that change?
The current proposed definition includes "waste" and "earth" this leads to confusion.
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Good Day, With respect to the proposed regulation, is aggregate that is imported to a site (i.e. Granular A for a road base) considered excess soil if it is transported to another site (i.e. during road reconstruction) and used for a similar purpose?
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The proposed regulation discourages the beneficial reuse of excess soil. It provides a new level of legislation that makes all clean fill “waste” and therefore “unacceptable” in the eye of the public and therefore their Municipal Councils.
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It should be considered to…
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It should be considered to that a Qualified Person perhaps need to get a licence to be create and Excess Soil Management Plan. Similar to that of a Non Agricultural Source Material (NASM) Plan developer.
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Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Excess Soil Management Regulatory Proposal. On behalf of Infrastructure Ontario, I would like to submit the following questions and comments:
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Is it possible to provide regulatory liability relief to a "source site proponent" and "receiving site" owner?
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Council for the Township of Melancthon would like to acknowledge the Province’s initiative to address a problem faced by rural municipalities while at the same time seeking clarity on the future authority, if any, that municipalities will have in regulating the placement of fill within their muni
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The proposed regulations are…
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The proposed regulations are mainly positive to continue the improvement of the protection of human health and the environment.
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Requirements in Subsection 6 of Appendix A are currently as follow: Subsection 6 of the ESMP with the heading Excess Soil Receiving Sites Summary shall include the following information: a. A list of the addresses of each receiving site to receive excess soil from the project area b.
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Re: Proposed New Excess Soil Reuse Regulation and Amendments to Existing Regulations
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Sanjay Coelho
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40 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 10
Toronto Ontario M4V 1M2
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We are urban farmers farming for "clean food" insecurity and working to dismantle food poverty.
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