Licence No.: 2593
Licence Issued: March 18, 2003
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ENVIRONMENT ACT (C.C.S.M. c. E125)
THIS LICENCE IS ISSUED PURSUANT TO SECTION 10(1) TO:
CARGILL LIMITED; "the Licencee"
for the construction and operation of the Development being a concrete grain elevator
and distribution facilities to be located on Lots 1 to 6, Block 2, Plan 16733 WLTO in the
Town of Morris, in accordance with the Proposal filed on January 17, 2003, and subject to
the following specifications, limits, terms and conditions:
DEFINITIONS
In this Licence,
"accredited laboratory" means an analytical facility accredited by the
Standard Council of Canada (SCC), or accredited by another accrediting agency recognized
by Manitoba Conservation to be equivalent to the SCC, or be able to demonstrate, upon
request, that it has the quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) procedures in place
equivalent to accreditation based on the international standard ISO/IEC 17025, or
otherwise approved by the Director;
"affected area" means a geographical area, excluding the property of the
Development;
"approved" means approved by the Director in writing;
"Director" means an employee so designated pursuant to The Environment
Act;
"Environment Officer" means an employee so designated pursuant to The
Environment Act;
"noise nuisance" means a continuous or repeated noise in an affected
area, which is offensive, obnoxious, troublesome, annoying, unpleasant or disagreeable to
a person:
- residing in an affected area;
- working in an affected area; or
- present at a location in an affected area which is normally open to the members of the
public;
if the noise
- is the subject of at least 5 written complaints, received by the Director in a form
satisfactory to the Director, and within a 90 day period, from 5 different persons falling
within clauses a), b), or c), who do not live in the same household; or
- is the subject of at least one written complaint, received by the Director in a form
satisfactory to the Director, from a person falling within clauses a), b), or c), and the
Director is of the opinion that if the unwanted sound had occurred in a more densely
populated area there would have been at least 5 written complaints received within a 90
day period from 5 different persons who do not live in the same household;
"odour nuisance" means a continuous or repeated odour, smell or aroma, in
an affected area, which is offensive, obnoxious, troublesome, annoying, unpleasant, or
disagreeable to a person:
- residing in an affected area;
- working in an affected area; or
- present at a location in an affected area which is normally open to the members of the
public;
if the odour, smell or aroma
- is the subject of at least 5 written complaints, received by the Director in a form
satisfactory to the Director, and within a 90 day period, from 5 different persons falling
within clauses a), b), or c), who do not live in the same household; or
- is the subject of at least one written complaint, received by the Director in a form
satisfactory to the Director, from a person falling within clauses a), b), or c), and the
Director is of the opinion that if the unwanted odour, smell of aroma had occurred in a
more densely populated area there would have been at least 5 written complaints received
within a 90 day period from 5 different persons who do not live in the same household;
"opacity" means the degree to which emissions reduce the transmission of
light and obscure the view of an object in the background;
"particulate matter" means any finely divided liquid or solid matter
other than water droplets;
"particulate residue" means that part or portion of an atmospheric
emission which is deposited onto a surface;
"point source" means any point of emission from the Development where
pollutants are emitted to the atmosphere by means of a stack; and
"sanitary wastewater" means human body, toilet, liquid, waterborne
culinary, sink or laundry waste.
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This Section of the Licence contains requirements intended to provide guidance to the
Licencee in implementing practices to ensure that the environment is maintained in such a
manner as to sustain a high quality of life, including social and economic development,
recreation and leisure for present and future Manitobans.
- The Licencee shall implement a high standard of equipment maintenance and good
housekeeping and operational practices with respect to the Development, at all times.
- The Licencee shall reduce the production and dissemination of wastes by initiating and
maintaining waste reduction and waste recycling programs.
- The Licencee shall not emit from the Development:
- particulate matter in any air emission that:
- exceeds 0.23 grams per dry standard cubic metre calculated at 25 degrees Celsius and 760
millimetres of mercury, corrected to 12 percent carbon dioxide for processes involving
combustion, from any point source of the Development;
- exhibits a visible plume with an opacity of greater than 5 percent at any point beyond
the property line of the Development; or
- results in the deposition of visible particulate residue at any time beyond the property
line of the Development; or
- particulate matter from any point source with an opacity that equals or exceeds:
- 20 percent as the average of any 24 consecutive opacity observations taken at 15 second
intervals;
- 20 percent for more than 16 individual opacity observations within any 1 hour period; or
- 40 percent for any individual opacity observation.
- The Licencee shall not cause or permit a noise nuisance to be created as a result of the
construction, operation, or alteration of the Development, and shall take such steps as
the Director may require to eliminate or mitigate a noise nuisance.
- The Licencee shall not cause or permit an odour nuisance to be created as a result of
the construction, operation, or alteration of the Development, and shall take such steps
as the Director may require to eliminate or mitigate an odour nuisance.
- The Licencee, at the request of the Director, shall conduct soil, air (stack and/or
ambient), ground water, surface water or noise monitoring at or adjacent to the
Development.
- The Licencee shall have each soil, air, or water sample collected pursuant to Clause 6,
of this Licence, analyzed by a laboratory approved by the Director and using methods
approved by the Director for any analytes as may be specified by the Director.
- The Licencee shall submit a copy of the sampling report complete with analytical results
as specified pursuant to Clauses 6 and 7 of this Licence, to the Director within 60 days
of the completion of the sampling program.
- The Licencee shall discharge only sanitary wastewater to a registered and approved
sewage disposal system.
I - REMEDIAL ACTION
- The Licencee, subject to obtaining approval from an Environment Officer, shall
immediately dispose of any contaminated material in accordance with the approval.
II - EMERGENCY CONTINGENCY PLAN
- The Licencee shall submit, within ninety (90) days of the issuance of this Licence, an
emergency response contingency plan to be approved by the Director. This plan shall
include, but not be limited to, items which will address: measures implemented for spill
prevention and containment; security; personnel training; fire and other response
arrangements.
III - SITE DECOMMISSIONING
- The Licencee shall submit within one (1) year prior to closure of the facility, for the
approval of the Director, a Decommissioning Plan for the facility.
- The Licencee shall implement, on closure of the facility, the approved Decommissioning
Plan.
REVIEW AND REVOCATION
- If, in the opinion of the Director, the Licencee has exceeded or is exceeding or has or
is failing to meet the specifications, limits, terms, or conditions set out in this
Licence, the Director may, temporarily or permanently, revoke this Licence.
- If construction of the development is not commenced within three years of the date of
this licence, the Licence is revoked.
- If, in the opinion of the Director, new evidence warrants a change in the
specifications, limits, terms or conditions of this Licence, the Director may require the
filing of a new Proposal pursuant to Section 10 of The Environment Act.
"original signed by"
Larry Strachan, P. Eng.
Director
Environment Act
Client File No.: 4894.00