Bill C-617
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C-617
Second Session, Forty-first Parliament,
62-63 Elizabeth II, 2013-2014
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-617
An Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (interprovincial movement of waste)
first reading, June 12, 2014
Ms. Leslie
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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 to prohibit the movement of waste from one province to another.
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2nd Session, 41st Parliament,
62-63 Elizabeth II, 2013-2014
house of commons of canada
BILL C-617
An Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (interprovincial movement of waste)
Preamble
Whereas permitting the interprovincial movement of waste allows a provincial government to seek solutions to its waste management problems outside the province;
And whereas provincial governments should make every effort to solve their waste management problems within the province without resorting to transporting their waste to other provinces;
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
SHORT TITLE
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Interprovincial Waste Movement Act.
1999, c. 33
CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT, 1999
2. Subsection 189(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 is replaced by the following:
Interprovincial movement
189. (1) It is prohibited to undertake movement from one province to another of
(a) hazardous waste or hazardous recyclable material; or
(b) non-hazardous waste or non-hazardous recyclable material in a quantity of 5 kg or 5 L or greater per shipment.
Non-application of prohibition
(1.1) The prohibition set out in subsection (1) does not apply to
(a) the movement of hazardous waste, non-hazardous waste or non-hazardous recyclable material if the capacity to destroy that waste or material does not exist in the province of origin; and
(b) the movement of waste from a contaminated site
(i) that is located on land owned or leased by the federal government, or
(ii) for which the federal government has accepted responsibility in terms of decontamination.
Non-application of prohibition
(1.2) If a person, a provincial government or a municipal authority is a party to an agreement that provides for a third party to dispose, outside the province of origin, of hazardous or non-hazardous waste or non-hazardous recyclable material that is under the control of the person, government or municipal authority, the prohibition set out in subsection (1) does not apply for the duration of that agreement.
3. Section 190 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (1):
Exception
(1.1) The Minister may not issue a permit authorizing the conduct of an activity prohibited under section 189.
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