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Safeguards in locating facilities
Environmental Protection (Hazardous Waste) Regulations, reg. 6 · Revised Edition 2020
No person shall establish, construct or operate any hazardous waste management facility–
(a) in a 100-year floodplain unless the hazardous waste management facility is designed,
constructed, operated and maintained to prevent washout of any hazardous waste by a 100-year flood;
(b) within 100 meters of any land which is subject to slope failure;
(c) within a wetland area or an area immediately adjacent to a wetland so that natural drainage from the secure landfill would flow directly into the wetland area;
(d) in a recharge area of an unconfined area;
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(e) within a minimum of one and a half (l ½) mile radius of any human settlement including a village, town, city, farm, resort or hotel;
(f) within 300 meters of any non-intermittent watercourse or any other permanent water body.
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