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48935

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Municipalities across Ontario have been struggling to figure out the responsibilities and logistics regarding the upcoming implementation of the new Excess Soils regulations. Read more

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49261

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Can it please be confirmed whether or not topsoil that is generated at a garden center or like processing site would be exempt from: future document tracking, filing within a notice of registry, and vetting by a QP to ensure that it meets the appropriate ESQS when it is imported to a site.

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49708

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Ontario Society of Professional Engineers

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The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) is the advocacy body and voice of the engineering profession. Ontario currently has over 85,000 professional engineers, 250,000 engineering graduates, 6,600 engineering post-graduate students and 37,000 engineering undergraduate students. Read more

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49726

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ALS Canada Ltd.

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7) Updates to Leachate Testing and Related Requirements E9003 Please consider including defined prescriptive elements and defined non-critical aspects of E9003 that can be modified to allow all environmental labs to use the same procedure in the revised leachate method. Read more

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49731

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The Ontario Excess Soils Regulations do not go far enough to protect the receiving end use of the construction waste soils cycle. The “Cradle to Grave” approach needs to be the management model that is followed, required. Read more

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49748

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Ontario Soil Regulation Task Force

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The Ontario Soil Regulation Task Force is submitting its full comments in the attached PDF. In summary: 1) The Registry must record the site instrument for all reuse sites. 2) Reuse sites should be registered if > 10,000m3 in total. Read more

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49766

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Proposed amendment To help address issues of illegal dumping the soil deposited at any reuse site should be traceable back to the source site(s) and to the persons responsible for the oversight at the reuse site. Ontario Regulation Read more

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49789

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Ontario Environment Industry Association (ONEIA)

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On behalf of the member companies of the Ontario Environment Industry Association (ONEIA), I am pleased to submit the attached submission regarding ERO posting 019-2462. Thank you and good luck with your review. Read more

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49802

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City of Toronto

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Please see the attached comments from the City of Toronto. If there are any questions about our submission, please contact Rick Gibson, Manager, Soil and Groundwater Quality, at 416.338.2824 or Rick.Gibson@toronto.ca. Read more

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49806

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ALS Canada Ltd.

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Comments on - Appendix - Updates to the Analytical Protocol Consideration needs to be given to harmonizing the CCME Analytical Protocol and the Ontario Analytical Protocol to help ensure consistent application of sample handling, holding times, and preservatives across Canada where possible. Read more

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49818

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The Regional Municpality of Durham

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Thank you for providing the Regional Municipality of Durham (Region) with the opportunity to review and comment on the Province's propose October 6, 2020 amendments to Excess Fill Regulations 406/19. We have attached detail comments both as an excel spreadsheet and as a PDF file. Read more