Q-2, r. 37 - Land Protection and Rehabilitation Regulation

Section 2.4 Disposition versions

2019-08-08

2.4. The following contaminated land rehabilitation measures, when taken under section 31.51 or 31.54 of the Environment Quality Act (chapter Q-2), are eligible for a declaration of compliance if the conditions determined in the second paragraph are met:

(1)  land rehabilitation is made only by excavation of soils whose concentration of contaminants present therein exceeds the limit values in Schedule I and its carrying out may be completed within a maximum period of 1 year;

(2)  only the recovery of water accumulating in the excavation is required.

The conditions that must be complied with so that the measures referred to in the first paragraph are eligible for a declaration of compliance are the following:

(1)  the quantity of contaminated soils to be excavated is not more than 10,000 m3;

(2)  the characterization study reveals

(a)  the absence, in the land, of residual hazardous materials, asbestos, chlorinated volatile organic compounds and measurable immiscible liquids; and

(b)  that no monitoring of groundwater quality is required after carrying out the work;

(3)  the recovered water will be discharged into a municipal wastewater treatment works or transported to a site authorized by the Minister.

The rehabilitation measures referred to in the first paragraph must begin as soon as possible after carrying out the characterization study provided for in the first paragraph of section 31.51 or in the first paragraph of section 31.53 of the Environment Quality Act.

O.C. 797-2019, s. 2.