(b) for costs and expenses incurred by a public department within the meaning of the Criminal Code or other public authority in Canada in respect of measures taken to prevent, repair, remedy or minimize the damage to the environment resulting from the emergency, including measures taken in anticipation of the environmental emergency, to the extent that the measures taken and the costs and expenses are reasonable, and for any loss or damage caused by such measures; and

(c) for costs and expenses incurred by the Minister in respect of measures taken to prevent, repair, remedy or minimize the environmental emergency to the extent that the measures taken and the costs and expenses are reasonable, and for any loss or damage caused by such measures.

(a) resulted from an act of war, hostilities or insurrection or from a natural phenomenon of an exceptional, inevitable and irresistible character;

(b) was wholly caused by an act or omission of a third party with intent to cause damage; or

(c) was wholly caused by the negligence or other wrongful act of government, public department or public authority.

(a) an act or omission done by the person who suffered the damage with intent to cause damage, or

(b) the negligence or wilful conduct of that person,

PART 9

GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS AND FEDERAL AND ABORIGINAL LAND

Interpretation

Application

(a) departments, boards and agencies of the Government of Canada;

(b) federal works and undertakings;

(c) aboriginal land, federal land, persons on that land and other persons in so far as their activities involve that land; and

(d) Crown corporations, as defined in subsection 83(1) of the Financial Administration Act.

(a) powers under the Aeronautics Act or a provision of any other Act of Parliament relating to aeronautics or air transportation; or

(b) powers under the National Defence Act or a provision of any other Act of Parliament relating to national defence and security.

Objectives, Guidelines and Codes of Practice

(a) shall offer to consult with the government of a territory if the objective, guideline or code of practice applies to that territory, and with the members of the Committee who are representatives of aboriginal governments if it applies to aboriginal land over which an aboriginal government has jurisdiction; and

(b) may consult with a department, board or agency of the Government of Canada, or a Crown corporation as defined in subsection 83(1) of the Financial Administration Act.

Regulations

(a) the establishment of environmental management systems;

(b) pollution prevention and pollution prevention plans;

(c) environmental emergencies, releases of substances and likely releases, including their prevention, preparedness for them, reporting them, both as soon as possible in the circumstances and in detail at a later stage, and the measures to be taken to respond to them and to correct damage to the environment;

(d) the designation of persons for the purposes of paragraph 212(1)(a) and subsections 212(3) and 213(1) and prescribing the form of the report to be made under those provisions and the information to be contained in it;

(e) the circumstances in which a report is not required under paragraph 212(1)(a);

(f) any substance; and

(g) any other matter necessary to carry out the purposes of this Part.

(a) the quantity or concentration of any substance that may be released into the environment either alone or in combination with any other substance from any source or type of source;

(b) the places or areas where the substance may be released;

(c) the commercial, manufacturing, processing or other activity in the course of which the substance may be released;

(d) the manner in which and the conditions under which the substance may be released into the environment, either alone or in combination with any other substance;

(e) the quantity of the substance that may be manufactured, processed, used, offered for sale or sold in Canada;

(f) the purposes for which the substance or a product containing it may be imported, manufactured, processed, used, offered for sale or sold;

(g) the manner in which and the conditions under which the substance or a product containing it may be imported, manufactured, processed or used;

(h) the quantities or concentrations in which the substance may be used;

(i) the quantities or concentrations of the substance that may be imported;

(j) the countries from or to which the substance may be imported or exported;

(k) the conditions under which, the manner in which and the purposes for which the substance may be imported or exported;

(l) the total, partial or conditional prohibition of the manufacture, use, processing, sale, offering for sale, import or export of the substance or a product containing the substance and the total, partial or conditional prohibition of the import or export of a product that is intended to contain the substance;

(m) the quantity or concentration of the substance that may be contained in any product manufactured, imported, exported, sold or offered for sale in Canada;

(n) the manner in which, the conditions under which and the purposes for which the substance or a product containing it may be advertised or offered for sale;

(o) the manner in which and the conditions under which the substance or a product containing it may be stored, displayed, handled, transported or offered for transport;

(p) the packaging and labelling of the substance or a product containing it;

(q) the manner, conditions, places and method of disposal or recycling of the substance or a product containing it, including standards for the construction, maintenance and inspection of disposal or recycling sites;

(r) the submission to the Minister, on request or at any times that are prescribed, of information relating to the substance;

(s) the maintenance of books and records for the administration of any regulation made under this section;

(t) the conduct of sampling, analyses, tests, measurements or monitoring of the substance and the submission of the results to the Minister;

(u) the submission of samples of the substance to the Minister;

(v) the conditions, test procedures and laboratory practices to be followed for conducting sampling, analyses, tests, measurements or monitoring of the substance;

(w) the circumstances or conditions under which the Minister may, for the proper administration of this Act, modify

(i) any requirement for sampling, analyses, tests, measurements or monitoring, or

(ii) conditions, test procedures and laboratory practices for conducting any required sampling, analyses, tests, measurements or monitoring; and

(x) the decommissioning and decontamination of storage, handling, transportation, disposal and recycling sites for the substance.

(a) shall offer to consult with the government of a territory if the regulation applies to that territory, and with the members of the Committee who are representatives of aboriginal governments if it applies to aboriginal land over which an aboriginal government has jurisdiction; and

(b) may consult with a department, board or agency of the Government of Canada, or a Crown corporation as defined in subsection 83(1) of the Financial Administration Act.

(a) are in force in respect of an aspect of the protection of the environment,

(b) apply to a federal work or undertaking, federal land or aboriginal land, and

(c) provide sufficient protection to the environment and human health,