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Compliance audit: examination of
activities and services, designed to determine whether a facility
meets all current environmental regulatory requirements.
Transports Canada operates and owns numerous facilities, such as
airports and ports. An important element in the activities of Transport
Canada’s Environmental Affairs – Quebec Region consists in ensuring
the environmental conformance of all of its facilities. This practice
derives directly from Transport Canada’s environmental
policy, and the Guide to Green
Government from
Environment Canada.
Transports Canada’s facilities undergo compliance audits as follows:
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Airports / operations |
Frequency |
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Airports where activities are carried out on a permanent basis |
Every five years |
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Remote airports |
Every three years |
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Fleet of aircraft and hangars |
Every three years |
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Magazines and warehouses |
Every five years |
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Offices, facility management |
Every five years |
Further, the National Airports
Policy makes provision for
Transport Canada to maintain its role of a regulatory authority, but
changes the roles of airport owner and operator to those of owner and
lessee. The list of airports that have been divested can be found here.
Before each divestiture, Transport Canada also has to draw up an
environmental picture of the airport by having an environmental compliance
audit conducted.
If non-conformances are found, they are corrected according to an order
of priority. The following are examples of non-conformances sometimes
found on Transport Canada – Quebec Region sites:
Contaminated sites
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