Q-2, r. 3 - Regulation respecting the application of the Environment Quality Act

Section 7 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

7. Every application for a certificate of authorization shall be submitted in writing to the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks and, in addition to meeting the requirements of section 22 of the Act and any provision in another regulation made under the Act, shall contain the following information and documents:

(1)  in the case of a natural person, his name, address and telephone number;

(2)  in the case of a legal person, partnership or association, its name, the address of its head office, the position of the signatory of the application and a certified copy of a document issued by the board of directors, the partners or the members and authorizing the signatory of the application to submit it to the Minister;

(3)  the registration number in the central file of enterprises, assigned to the applicant’s enterprise by the enterprise registrar;

(4)  in the case of a municipality, a certified copy of a council resolution authorizing the signatory of the application to submit it to the Minister;

(5)  the cadastral designation of the lots on which the project is to be carried out;

(6)  a description of the project’s technical aspects;

(7)  a plan of the site on which the project is to be carried out, specifically indicating the zoning of the land in question;

(8)  an indication as to the type and volume of contaminants liable to be emitted, discharged, issued or deposited into or in the environment, as well as their points of emission, discharge, issuance or deposit; and

(9)  in the case of an open-pit mine, a land reclamation plan indicating

(a)  the area of the land liable to be damaged or destroyed;

(b)  the type of soil and the type of existing vegetation;

(c)  the stages in the damaging or destruction of the soil and vegetation, with an estimate of the number of years; and

(d)  the conditions for and the stages in the carrying out of restoration work.

In addition, every application for a certificate of authorization for work referred to in subparagraph a or b of paragraph 6 of section 2, whether the work is to be carried out in a constant or intermittent watercourse, lake, bog, pond, marsh or swamp or outside any such environment, must include

(1)  a description of the geological, hydrogeological, geochemical or geophysical data that the project will provide;

(2)  a description of the data relating to the assessment or development of environmentally-secure drilling techniques and new drilling methods that the project will provide;

(3)  an indication that the project must be carried out within or outside an urbanization perimeter provided for on the land use planning and development plan of a regional county municipality in the territory in which the project is located or in part of the territory involved, as the case may be, intended for vacation in the plan.

O.C. 1529-93, s. 7; O.C. 571-2011, s. 3.