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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; Environmental Protection 297 (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. Requirement for
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