Q-2, r. 19 - Regulation respecting the landfilling and incineration of residual materials

Section 6 Disposition versions

2022-09-01

6. With the exception of the other landfills authorized by this Regulation or any other regulation, the engineered landfills governed by Division 2 are the only landfills in which residual materials to which Division VII of Chapter IV of Title I of the Environment Quality Act (chapter Q-2) applies may be landfilled, except the following:

(1)  batches of branches, stumps or shrubs less than 60 m3;

(2)  soil excavated from land that has not been contaminated by human activity;

(3)  plant species the transportation of which is likely to result in the propagation of invasive exotic species;

(4)  wood debris removed from the surroundings of dams.

Despite the provisions of the first paragraph, the following may be disposed of in a landfill authorized for that purpose by the Minister under section 22 of the Environment Quality Act:

(1)  fibrous waste from sawmills;

(2)  fibrous waste of the same nature as fibrous waste from sawmills that originates from oriented strandboard manufacturing plants; and

(3)  ash, soils or sludge from the establishments referred to in subparagraphs 1 and 2 and that contain such waste.

Despite the first paragraph, animal carcasses that are not considered inedible meat and their ashes may be disposed of in an animal cemetery that may legally receive them under the Environment Quality Act.

O.C. 451-2005, s. 6; O.C. 451-2011, s. 2; O.C. 868-2020, s. 3; O.C. 1463-2022, s. 4.

2020-09-17

6. With the exception of the other landfills authorized by this Regulation or any other regulation, the engineered landfills governed by Division 2 are the only landfills in which residual materials to which Division VII of Chapter IV of Title I of the Environment Quality Act (chapter Q-2) applies may be landfilled, except the following:

(1)  batches of branches, stumps or shrubs less than 60 m3;

(2)  soil excavated from land that has not been contaminated by human activity;

(3)  plant species the transportation of which is likely to result in the propagation of invasive exotic species;

(4)  wood debris removed from the surroundings of dams.

Despite the provisions of the first paragraph, the following may be disposed of in a landfill authorized for that purpose by the Minister under section 22 of the Environment Quality Act:

(1)  fibrous waste from sawmills;

(2)  fibrous waste of the same nature as fibrous waste from sawmills that originates from oriented strandboard manufacturing plants; and

(3)  ash, soils or sludge from the establishments referred to in subparagraphs 1 and 2 and that contain such waste.

Despite the provisions of the first paragraph, animal carcasses to which the provisions of section 5 do not otherwise apply, as well as their ash, may be disposed of in an animal cemetery authorized by the Minister under section 22 of the Environment Quality Act.

O.C. 451-2005, s. 6; O.C. 451-2011, s. 2; O.C. 868-2020, s. 3.

2012-09-01

6. With the exception of the other landfills authorized by this Regulation or any other regulation, the engineered landfills governed by Division 2 are the only landfills in which residual materials to which Division VII of Chapter I of the Environment Quality Act (chapter Q-2) applies may be deposited permanently onto or into land, except batches of branches, stumps or shrubs less than 60 m3 and soil excavated from land that has not been contaminated by human activity.

Despite the provisions of the first paragraph, the following may be disposed of in a landfill authorized for that purpose by the Minister under section 22 of the Environment Quality Act:

(1)  fibrous waste from sawmills;

(2)  fibrous waste of the same nature as fibrous waste from sawmills that originates from oriented strandboard manufacturing plants; and

(3)  ash, soils or sludge from the establishments referred to in subparagraphs 1 and 2 and that contain such waste.

O.C. 451-2005, s. 6; O.C. 451-2011, s. 2.