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1999-02-17 - Canada Gazette Part II, Vol. 133 No. 4

CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT

Order Adding Toxic Substances to Schedule I to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act

P.C. 1999-331 4 March, 1999

Whereas, pursuant to subsection 48(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act ( R.S., c. 16 (4th Supp.)), the Minister of the Environment published in the Canada Gazette, Part I, on April 4, 1998, a copy of the proposed Order Adding Toxic Substances to Schedule I to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, substantially in the annexed form, and persons were given an opportunity to file a notice of objection requesting that a board of review be established and stating the reasons for the objection;

And whereas, pursuant to subsection 33(1) ( S.C. 1989, c. 9, s. 1(1)) of that Act, the Governor in Council is satisfied that the substances set out in the annexed Order are toxic substances;

Therefore, His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of Health, pursuant to subsection 33(1) ( S.C. 1989, c. 9, s. 1(1)) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act ( R.S., c. 16 (4th Supp.)), hereby makes the annexed Order Adding Toxic Substances to Schedule I to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

ORDER ADDING TOXIC SUBSTANCES TO SCHEDULE I TO THE CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT

AMENDMENT

1. Schedule I to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act ( R.S., c. 16 (4th Supp.)) is amended by adding the following after item 27:

28. Inorganic arsenic compounds 29. Benzidine 30. Bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate 31. Inorganic cadmium compounds 32. Chlorinated wastewater effluents 33. Hexavalent chromium compounds 34. Creosote-impregnated waste materials from creosote-contaminated

sites

35. 3,3´-Dichlorobenzidine 36. 1,2-Dichloroethane 37. Dichloromethane 38. Effluents from pulp mills using bleaching 39. Hexachlorobenzene 40. Inorganic fluorides 41. Refractory ceramic fibre 42. Oxidic, sulphidic and soluble inorganic nickel compounds 43. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons 44. Tetrachloroethylene 45. Trichloroethylene

COMING INTO FORCE

2. This Order comes into force on March 4, 1999.