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CONTAMINATED SITES REGULATION — Continued
B.C. Reg. 375/96

Schedule 3

[en. B.C. Reg. 322/2004, s. 68; am. B.C. Reg. 346/2004.]

FEES

Table 1: Fees for Site Profiles, Information and Allocation Panel Opinions

COLUMN I
Action

COLUMN II
Fee

1. Site Profiles
Person provides a site profile to an approving officer or municipality $100
2. Information Obtained by Accessing Computer-based Site Registry
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(a) (i) Person queries the computer-based site registry by a SITE identification number $10*
(b)

 

(i) Person queries the computer-based site registry by a Land Title Parcel Identifier (PID), Crown Land Parcel Identification Number (PIN), or Crown Lands file number $25*
(ii) Person accesses a computer-based site registry site synopsis report $25*
(c)

 

 

(i) Person queries the computer-based site registry by address $50*
(ii) Person accesses a computer-based site registry site detail report $50*
(iii) Person queries the computer-based site registry by geographic area within 0.5 km radius of a specific latitude and longitude $50*
(d)

Person queries the computer-based site registry by geographic area within 5.0 km radius of a specific latitude and longitude

$100*
(e)

Person requests assistance of a government employee to perform a computer-based site registry query

$10
(f) Person requests the site registrar to prepare a custom report of computer-based site registry information $500 plus $100/hour for time
required beyond 3 hours to
prepare the information
(g) Person requests the custom report described in (e) above to be regularly updated and provided by the site registrar $200 per updated report
3.

 

Information Obtained by Accessing Other Computer-based Records
Person requests information about a single site by a search of computer-based records in databases, including but not limited to databases for wastes, hazardous wastes and spills $100 per database
4.

 

Allocation Panel Opinion
Person requests an allocation panel opinion and an allocation panel carries out work and provides an opinion $1 000 per panel member
per day 

* In addition to a fee marked by an asterisk, a further operator fee of $1.00 may be charged for any transaction done by electronic means from a location outside a government office or at a government office by a person who is not a government employee.

 

Table 2: Fees for Core Services and Functions Provided Directly by the Ministry or Persons on Behalf of the Ministry

Column I
Action or Activity
Column II
Fee for
Simple Site
Column III
Fee for
Complex Site
1. Determination of Contaminated Site
    Person requests a determination whether a site is a contaminated site without the recommendation of an approved professional $ 1 000 $2 000
2. Reviews of Reports, Plans and Covenants
  (a)  Review of a preliminary site investigation report $2 000 $4 000
  (b)  Review of a detailed site investigation report $3 000 $6 000
  (c)  Review of a remediation plan which does not include a risk assessment and/or environmental risk assessment report $4 000 $12 000
  (d)  Review of a remediation plan which includes a risk assessment and/or environmental risk assessment report $6 000 $18 000
  (e)  Review of a confirmation of remediation report $2 000 $6 000
  (f)  Review of a convenant prior to registering $3 000 $6 000
  (g)  Review of a risk assessment and/or environmental risk assessment report not included in a remediation plan $3 000 $9 000
3. Agreements and Indemnifications
  (a)  Contaminated soil relocation agreement processed without the recommendation of an approved professional $1 000 $2 000
  (b)  Person requests a voluntary remediation agreement $2 000 $4 000
  (c)  Person requests a transfer agreement under Part 5 of the Act $2 000 $4 000
  (d)  Person requests indemnification for a site under the Financial Administration Act $4 000 $8 000
4. Approvals, Certificates and Orders
  (a)  Approval in principle for a remediation plan without the recommendation of an approved professional $1 000 $3 000
  (b)  Certificate of compliance without the recommendation of an approved professional $2 000 $6 000
  (c)  Additional fee for an approval in principle or certificate of compliance where a person is ordered by a manager to investigate or remediate a site $4 000 $12 000
5. Background, Site-specific Standards, Wide Area Sites
  (a)  Person requests review of background substance concentrations for a site under section 11, 17 or 18 $1 000 $2 000
  (b)  Person requests review of proposed site-specific standards for a site under section 11 or 17 $2 000 $4 000
  (c)  Person requests designation of an area as a wide area site $5 000 $10 000
6. Allocation Panel
    Person requests the appointment of an allocation panel $2 000 $2 000
7. Minor Contributor Determination
    Person requests a determination as to a person's minor contributor status $2 000 $2 000

 

Table 3: Fees for Applications Involving Approved Professional Expert Recommendations and Additional Services and Functions

Column I
Action or Activity
Column II
Fee for
Simple Site
Column III
Fee for
Complex Site
1. Reviews respecting applications with a recommendation of an approved professional
  (a)  Person requests a determination under section 44 of the Act $500 $1 000
  (b)  Review of a preliminary site investigation report $1 000 $2 000
  (c)  Review of a detailed site investigation report $1 500 $3 000
  (d)  Review of a remediation plan, which does not include a risk assessment or environmental risk assessment report $2 000 $6 000
  (e)  Review of a remediation plan, which includes a risk assessment and environmental impact report $3 000 $9 000
  (f)  Review of a confirmation of remediation report $1 000 $3 000
  (g)  Review of a risk assessment or environmental risk assessment report not included in a remediation plan $1 500 $4 500
  (h)  Contaminated soil relocation agreement processed under section 43 (2) $500 $1 000
  (i)  Review of recommended local background substance concentrations for a site based on regional soil quality estimates provided in a protocol under this regulation $500 $1 000
2. Additional Services and Functions
  (a)  A person, on behalf of the ministry, inspects, monitors and verifies for remediation or an approval in principle, certificate of compliance, voluntary remediation agreement, transfer agreement, indemnification request or application, contaminated soil relocation agreement, or contaminated sites enforcement investigation    
  (b)  A person, on behalf of the ministry, consults, negotiates or provides advice with respect to a specific site regarding any
• site investigation
• implementation of remediation
• confirmation of remediation
• risk assessment
• environmental risk assessment
• security, including the posting of security
• standard, criterion or protocol
• ministry contaminated sites policy or procedure
• ministry contaminated sites guidance
• analytical method for contaminated sites
• external reviews carried out under section 10
• minor contributor status provision or designation
• covenant under section 219 of the Land Title Act
provision for the appointment or opinion of an allocation panel
order for public consultation or review under section 52 of the Act
independent remediation
• notification for the migration or likely migration of a substance to a neighboring site
• transfer agreement under Part 5 of the Act
• indemnification under the Financial Administration Act
• voluntary remediation agreement
• soil relocation
• approval in principle or certificate of compliance
• site profile
• site registry requirement
• remediation order
• other provision of Part 4 or 5 of the Act
• pollution prevention order or pollution abatement order under Part 7 of the Act
• wide area site planning or designation
   

Table 4: Substance Classes

COLUMN I
Item
COLUMN II
Substance Class
1 inorganic substances
2 volatile petroleum hydrocarbons and benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene
3 light extractable petroleum hydrocarbons and any of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons listed in Schedule 4 and 5 of this regulation
4 heavy extractable petroleum hydrocarbons and any of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons listed in Schedule 4 and 5 of this regulation
5 phenolic substances
6 chlorinated hydrocarbons
7 halogenated methanes
8 phthalate esters
9 pesticides
10 substances corresponding to items 1 to 4 above which only originate from any petroleum product dispensing facility or the use of a site as a vehicle service station

 

  

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