Q-2 - Environment Quality Act

Section 70.5.2 Disposition versions

2018-03-23

70.5.2. In the cases determined by government regulation, anyone responsible for an accidental release of hazardous materials into the environment is required to conduct a characterization study of the land concerned. The regulation may prescribe the content of the study and how it is to be carried out.

As soon as such a study is completed, it must be sent to the Minister and to the owner of the land.

Any person who, as owner or lessee or in any other capacity, has custody of land affected by the release must give free access to the land at any reasonable time to any person required under this section to conduct a characterization study on the land, subject, however, to that person restoring the site and compensating the custodian or owner of the land, as the case may be, for any damage sustained.

2017, c. 4, s. 116.