Licence No.: 2600
Licence Issued: May 9, 2003
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ENVIRONMENT ACT (C.C.S.M. c. E125)
THIS LICENCE IS
ISSUED PURSUANT TO SECTION 10(1) TO:
EROSIONCONTROLBLANKET.COM INC.; "the Licencee"
for the operation of the Development being a manufacturing facility, located in NE ¼ 19-23-4 EPM in the Rural Municipality of Bifrost, in accordance with the Proposal dated October 21, 2002, and subject to the following specifications, limits, terms and conditions:
DEFINITIONS
In this Licence,
"accredited laboratory" means an analytical facility accredited by the Standard Council of Canada (SCC), or accredited by another accrediting agency recognized by Manitoba Conservation to be equivalent to the SCC, or be able to demonstrate, upon request, that it has the quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) procedures in place equivalent to accreditation based on the international standard ISO/IEC 17025, or otherwise approved by the Director;
"affected area" means a geographical area, excluding the property of the Development;
"approved" means approved by the Director in writing;
"dangerous good" means any product, substance or organism designated in the regulations, or conforming with the criteria set out in the regulations, or in any regulation adopted in accordance with The Dangerous Goods Handling and Transportation Act, and includes hazardous wastes;
"Director" means an employee so designated pursuant to The Environment Act;
"Environment Officer" means an employee so designated pursuant to The Environment Act;
"noise nuisance" means a continuous or repeated noise in an affected area, which is offensive, obnoxious, troublesome, annoying, unpleasant or disagreeable to a person:
if the noise
"odour nuisance" means a continuous or repeated odour, smell or aroma, in an affected area, which is offensive, obnoxious, troublesome, annoying, unpleasant, or disagreeable to a person:
if the odour, smell or aroma
"opacity" means the degree to which emissions reduce the transmission of light and obscure the view of an object in the background;
"particulate matter" means any finely divided liquid or solid matter other than water droplets;
"particulate residue" means that part or portion of an atmospheric emission which is deposited onto a surface;
"point source" means any point of emission from the Development where pollutants are emitted to the atmosphere by means of a stack;
"QA/QC" means quality assurance/quality control;
"sanitary wastes" means sewage containing human body, toilet, liquid, waterborne culinary, sink or laundry waste;
"sewerage system" means all sewers, appurtenances, pumping stations, treatment works, and all physical properties of the system, but does not include extensions to the collection systems;
"significant" means of important negative consequence as determined by an individual with demonstrated expertise who is qualified to make such judgements;
"stack" means a duct, pipe, chimney, vent, or similar opening through which pollutants are emitted to the atmosphere; and
"Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" means the most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Waterworks Association and the Water Environment Federation.
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This Section of the Licence contains requirements intended to provide guidance to the Licencee in implementing practices to ensure that the environment is maintained in such a manner as to sustain a high quality of life, including social and economic development, recreation and leisure for present and future Manitobans.
- sample, monitor, analyze and/or investigate specific areas of concern regarding any segment, component or aspect of pollutant storage, containment, treatment, handling, disposal or emission systems, for such pollutants or ambient quality, aquatic toxicity, leachate characteristics and discharge or emission rates, for such duration and at such frequencies as may be specified;
- determine the environmental impact associated with the release of any pollutants from the said Development; or
- provide the Director, within such time as may be specified, with such reports, drawings, specifications, analytical data, descriptions of sampling and analytical procedures being used, bioassay data, flow rate measurements and such other information as may from time to time be requested.
- carry out all preservations and analyses on liquid samples in accordance with the methods prescribed in the most current edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater or in accordance with equivalent preservation and analytical methodologies approved by the Director;
- carry out all sampling of, and preservation and analyses on, soil and air samples in accordance with methodologies approved by the Director;
- ensure that all analytical determinations are undertaken by an accredited laboratory; and
- report the results to the Director within 60 days of the samples being taken.
LIMITS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Respecting Air Emissions - Limits
- particulate matter in any air emission that:
- exceeds 0.23 grams per dry standard cubic metre calculated at 25 degrees Celsius and 760 millimetres of mercury, corrected to 12 percent carbon dioxide for processes involving combustion, from any point source of the Development;
- exhibits a visible plume with an opacity of greater than 5 percent at any point beyond the property line of the Development; or
- results in the deposition of visible particulate residue at any time beyond the property line of the Development; or
- particulate matter from any point source with an opacity that equals or exceeds:
- 20 percent as the average of any 24 consecutive opacity observations taken at 15 second intervals;
- 20 percent for more than 16 individual opacity observations within any 1 hour period; or
- 40 percent for any individual opacity observation.
Respecting Air Pollution Control Equipment
- to an existing pollution control device; or
- when requested in writing by the Director, to a pollution control device which has been designed for and demonstrated to be capable of reducing, altering, eliminating or otherwise treating the pollutants.
- the operating and maintenance measures and status of the device are in full compliance with the approved procedures and timetables;
- all emissions from the process are directed to the fully operational air pollution control device;
- all discharges of treated emissions from the air pollution control devices are immediately directed to a stack; and
- the emissions do not contain concentrations of pollutants which:
- are in violation of any other applicable legal instrument including an Act, Regulation or by-law; or
- otherwise create a significant health or environmental impact beyond the boundaries of the Development.
- identification of the unit and the process(s) it serves;
- time/date of log entry; and
- nature of event.
Respecting The Operation of Boilers And Heaters
Respecting Air Emissions - Sampling, Analysis, Reporting
- at a location(s) and within a time frame satisfactory to the Director; and
- to the specifications and in accordance with the most recent version of Manitoba Conservation Guideline, Guideline for Stack Sampling Facilities, unless otherwise approved by the Director.
- the raw data collected;
- a discussion of the sampling and analytical portions of the program including any anomalies of sampling and analysis; and
- a discussion of the significance of the data gathered with specific attention to:
- the significance for potential acute and chronic impacts to health or environment from exposure to concentrations of the compounds detected;
- the need for risk assessment of the impact of emissions;
- the need for the establishment of ambient air monitoring stations;
- the need for dispersion modeling of emissions;
- results and conclusions of the QA/QC program; and
- other issues as may be determined by the Director.
Respecting Ambient Air Quality Monitoring
- the sampling, analysis and reporting of levels of contaminants, as determined by the Director, at a selected location(s) beyond the property boundaries of the Development; and
- the location, installation and operation of a meteorological monitoring station.
Respecting Dangerous Goods Handling and Storage
- Manitoba Regulation 188/2001, or any future amendment thereof, respecting the Storage and Handling of Petroleum Products and Allied Products;
- The Manitoba Dangerous Goods Handling and Transportation Act, and regulations issued thereunder, respecting the handling, transport, storage and disposal of any dangerous goods brought onto or generated at the Development; and
- Manitoba Fire Code, Regulation 163/98 of The Fire Prevention And Emergency Response Act (C.C.S.M. c. F80).
Respecting Solid Waste
Respecting Sanitary Waste Disposal
Respecting Emergency Response Planning
REVIEW AND REVOCATION
"original signed by"
Larry Strachan, P. Eng.
Director
Environment
Act
Client File No.: 4863.00