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CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT, 1999Notice with Respect to Dichloromethane Pursuant to paragraph 71(1)(b) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, notice is hereby given that the Minister of the Environment requires, for the purpose of assessing whether to control, or the manner in which to control dichloromethane, any person described in Schedule 1 of this notice who possesses or who may reasonably be expected to have access to the information described in Schedule 2, to provide that information no later than December 1, 2000. Where appropriate, terms contained in this notice and its schedules have been defined in Schedule 3. Responses to this notice shall be submitted to the Minister of the Environment, to the attention of Serge Langdeau, National Office of Pollution Prevention, Environment Canada, 351 Saint-Joseph Boulevard, 20th Floor, Hull, Quebec K1A 0H3. Inquiries concerning the notice may be directed to Serge Langdeau at the above address or at (819) 994-0457 (Telephone), (819) 994-5030 (Facsimile), or serge.langdeau@ec.gc.ca (Electronic mail). Pursuant to section 313 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, any person who provides information in response to this notice may submit with the information a written request that it be treated as confidential. JAMES RIORDAN Director National Office of Pollution Prevention On behalf of the Minister of the Environment SCHEDULE 1 Persons Required to Provide Information 1. (1) This notice applies to any person who owns or operates a facility that manufactured, imported, exported or used 1 000 kilograms or more of dichloromethane during the calendar year 1998 or 1999, or both. (2) Despite subsection (1), this notice does not apply to any person who owns or operates a facility that used dichloromethane: (a) exclusively in aerosol products; (b) exclusively for laboratory purposes; (c) exclusively for research and development purposes; or (d) for paint stripping other than for the paint stripping of an aircraft or a component of an aircraft. SCHEDULE 2 Information Required 1. Any person who owns or operates a facility that manufactured, imported, exported or used 1 000 kilograms or more of dichloromethane during the calendar year 1998 or 1999, or both, shall provide the following information for each facility: (a) the company's legal name and trade name, facility identification, including name, address, public contact with telephone number, technical contact with telephone number and address and the type of activities in which the person is engaged; and (b) the quantity of dichloromethane that was manufactured, imported, exported or used during the calendar year 1998 or 1999, or both. 2. (1) Any person who owns or operates a facility that used 1 000 kilograms or more of dichloromethane during the calendar year 1998 or 1999, or both, shall provide the following information for each facility: (a) the quantity of dichloromethane that was released on site to air, water, and land during each year; (b) the quantity of dichloromethane transferred off site for disposal during each year; (c) the quantity of dichloromethane transferred off site for recycling during each year; (d) whether pollution prevention measures were used during each year, and which of the following measures were used: (i) materials or feedstock substitution, (ii) product design or reformulation, (iii) equipment or process modifications, (iv) spill and leak prevention, (v) on-site reuse, recycling or recovery, (vi) training or good operating practices, or (vii) other (specify); (e) the purposes for which dichloromethane was used during the calendar year of 1998 or 1999, or both, and the quantity of dichloromethane used for each of those purposes; (f) whether the recommendations set out in Strategic Options for the Management of Toxic Substances - Dichloromethane: Report of Stakeholder Consultations ( Environment Canada (Ottawa, June 5, 1998). This document can be obtained in hard copy from Environment Canada or electronically at www.ec.gc.ca/sop/.) are being implemented;(g) if the recommendations set out in Strategic Options for the Management of Toxic Substances - Dichloromethane: Report of Stakeholder Consultations are not being implemented, whether you intend to begin implementation of the recommendations and the approximate date you will begin implementation; and (h) if the recommendations set out in Strategic Options for the Management of Toxic Substances - Dichloromethane: Report of Stakeholder Consultations are being implemented: (i) the current stage of implementation; (ii) an estimate of the date on which the emission reduction targets set out in Strategic Options for the Management of Toxic Substances - Dichloromethane: Report of Stakeholder Consultations will be met; and (iii) the methods being used to meet the emission reduction targets. (2) Despite subsection (1), any person who owns or operates a facility that used 1 000 kilograms or more of dichloromethane during the calendar year 1998 or 1999, or both, and reported releases of dichloromethane to the National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) for those calendar years, is not required to provide the information specified in paragraphs 2(1)(a) to (d). SCHEDULE 3 Definitions 1. The definitions in this schedule apply in this notice. "aircraft" means "aircraft" as defined in subsection 3(1) of the Aeronautics Act. "dichloromethane" means the chemical, also known as methylene chloride, having the molecular formula CHCl, identified by the Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number 75-09-2, whether in pure form or contained in a mixture or product."disposal" means the final disposal of the material in a landfill or by incineration. "facility" means all buildings, equipment, structures and stationary items that are located on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites that are owned or operated by the same person and that function as a single integrated site. "pollution prevention" means the use of processes, practices, materials, products, substances or energy that avoid or minimize the creation of pollutants and waste and reduce the overall risk to the environment or human health. "recycling" includes any activity that keeps the material or a component of the material from becoming a material destined for disposal.
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