Q-2, r. 32 - Regulation respecting hazardous materials

Article 2 Versions de la disposition

2012-09-01

2. The following do not constitute hazardous materials:

1°  contaminated soil except, for the purposes of the prohibition in section 94 of this Regulation, soil having more than 50 mg of PCB per kg of soil;

2°  material from the construction, dismantling or renovation of an immovable or infrastructure, except materials and objects that are classed as hazardous materials according to section 4 of this Regulation;

3°  scrap metal and other metal objects, except objects that are classed as hazardous materials according to section 4 of this Regulation;

4°  fabrics other than absorbent fabrics used during hazardous material recovery operations;

5°  biomedical waste governed by the Regulation respecting biomedical waste (chapter Q-2, r. 12);

6°  mill residual materials within the meaning of section 1 of the Regulation respecting pulp and paper mills (chapter Q-2, r. 27), as well as other residual materials referred to in section 117 of that Regulation;

7°  pesticides governed by the Pesticides Act (chapter P-9.3);

8°  spray formulations and rinsings resulting from the use of a pesticide;

9°  wastewater other than wastewater from pipeless rinsing baths from surface treatment operations;

10°  mine tailings and sludge from treatment of the effluent from a tailings storage yard where such sludge is deposited in the yard;

11°  materials from dredging operations;

12°  collected snow;

13°  radioactive materials which meet the requirements fixed in a permit issued by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in respect of their deposit in a sanitary landfill site, an engineered landfill or an incineration site or in respect of their discharge into a sewer system;

14°  bituminous concrete, asphalt shingles, solid plastic, solid rubber and asbestos;

15°  sludge from a sceptic tank, from a drinking water treatment plant or from a sanitary or municipal wastewater purification works;

16°  residue from an underground access manhole, from a street catch basin or from a car-wash sump;

17°  manure and liquid manure;

18°  treated wood;

19°  shredded automobile hulks;

20°  smoke detectors; and

21°  ash and other residue from an incineration facility governed by Chapter III of the Regulation respecting the landfilling and incineration of residual materials, (chapter Q-2, r. 19) or from a biomedical waste incineration facility.

O.C. 1310-97, s. 2; O.C. 451-2005, s. 182; O.C. 808-2007, s. 144.