My comments are regarding TOPSOIL; it has taken millions of years to create our top soils so we can grow and product food for the population ... Top soil must be protected and reused on lands that need top dressing and or increase its fertility ...
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Dear Ms Blease,
These comments are provided by staff of the Regional Municipality of Peel. The Region of Peel staff have reviewed the proposed Implementation Pause of Excess Soil Requirements in Effect January 1, 2022 and appreciate the opportunity to provide feedback to the Province.
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Many areas don't have material recycling yards and rely on a city or municipal dump. The areas that do have a company that handles things like excess soil are now too worried to take excess soil due to all the extra costs this has created.
April 7, 2022 SENT via ONLINE Submission
Laura Blease
Land Use Policy, Environmental Policy Branch
40 St. Clair Ave West
10th floor
Toronto, ON M4V 1M2
RE: Implementation Pause of Excess Soil Requirements in Effect January 1, 2022
Dear Ms. Blease,
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This act puts an unnecessary burden on our company. While the purpose of the act to ensure topsoil is reused and not disposed of is great, it’s requirements are cumbersome and don’t reflect the realities of our sector.
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We are a successful small landscape construction company doing good work for 35 years.
This proposal is not sensible for companies like us that move soil/fill every day in small quantities.
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Attached please find a letter from Halton Region’s Commissioner of the Public Works Department, RE: ERO #019-5203, Implementation Pause of Excess Soil Requirements in Effect January 1, 2022.
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The OACFP represents most of the bereavement profession’s active operators within the province. Our membership consists of cemetery, funeral home, crematorium, and transfer service operators from across the province as well as many other stakeholders within the bereavement sector.
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We support the suggested delay for the implementation of the Phase 2 requirements - those namely being the planning and reporting documents, and the tracking & haulage requirements which are spelled out in the Regulation.
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I work for an established beneficial reuse site. In accordance with Ontario Regulation 406, we put in place registration and truck tracking methods. We may not be 100% on every front, but we have set up the necessary systems and are working at improving on them.
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Overall, the City of London is supportive of the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) proposal to pause the implementation of certain provisions of Ontario Regulation (O.Reg.) 406/19 that came into effect on January 1, 2022 by one year, to January 1, 2023.
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i am in the environmental consulting and contacting area for over 30 years primarily in the contaminated site area, have been heavily involved in the excess soil since the inception of this new Regulation on several aspects.
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On behalf of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, please find attached our submission with respect to ERO # 019-5203 (Implementation Pause of Excess Soil Requirements in Effect January 1, 2022).
Thank you.
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The Municipal Engineers Association (MEA) previously issued a letter (dated Oct. 26, 2021) to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks requesting the MECP to consider deferral of the implementation of the excess soil requirements until January 1, 2023.
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