| #D001 | | adverse effect | means an adverse effect described in subsection 18 (3) of the Act; | high |
| #D002 | | agricultural source materials" or "ASM | means any of the following treated or untreated materials, other than compost that meets the requirements for Category AA, A or B compost in Part II of the Compost Standards or a commercial fertilizer, if they are capable of being applied to land as nutrients: 1. Manure, including associated bedding materials, whether or not located on an agricultural operation. 2. Runoff from farm animal yards, outdoor confinement areas and permanent nutrient storage facilities that contain only manure and associated bedding materials, whether or not located on an agricultural operation. 3. Washwaters from agricultural operations that have not been mixed with human body waste. 4. Organic materials produced by intermediate operations that process materials described in paragraph 1, 2 or 3. 5. Anaerobic digestion output, other than restricted anaerobic digestion output, if i. the anaerobic digestion materials were treated in a mixed anaerobic digestion facility, ii. at least 50 per cent, by volume, of the total amount of anaerobic digestion materials were on-farm anaerobic digestion materials, and iii. the anaerobic digestion materials did not contain sewage biosolids or human body waste. 6. Regulated compost as defined in subsection 1 (1) of Ontario Regulation 106/09 (Disposal of Dead Farm Animals) made under the Act; | high |
| #D003 | | anaerobic digestion | means the decomposition of organic matter by bacteria in an oxygen-limiting environment; | high |
| #D004 | | anaerobic digestion materials | means materials that are intended for treatment in a mixed anaerobic digestion facility, whether the materials are generated at the agricultural operation or received at the agricultural operation from an outside source; | high |
| #D005 | | anaerobic digestion output | means any solid or liquid material that results from the treatment of anaerobic digestion materials in a mixed anaerobic digestion facility; | high |
| #D006 | | broker | means a person who, (a) receives prescribed materials from an operation, (b) does not generate a new nutrient product from the materials, and (c) transfers the materials to another operation, applies the materials to land as nutrients on behalf of another person, or stores them for either of those purposes; | high |
| #D007 | | Category 1 non-agricultural source materials" or "Category 1 NASM | means non-agricultural source materials described in Table 1 of Schedule 4; | high |
| #D008 | | commercial fertilizer | means a fertilizer or supplement, as each of those terms is defined in the Fertilizers Act (Canada), that is regulated under that Act, subject to subsection (2.1); | high |
| #D009 | | farm unit | means land consisting of, or designated as, a farm unit under section 5; | high |
| #D010 | | generator | means a person who owns or controls an operation in the course of which prescribed materials are generated, and includes an intermediate generator; | high |
| #D011 | | manure | unless otherwise specified, means manure produced by farm animals; | high |
| #D012 | | non-agricultural source materials" or "NASM | means any of the following materials, other than compost that meets the requirements for Category AA or A compost in Part II of the Compost Standards or a commercial fertilizer, if the materials are intended to be applied to land as nutrients: 1. Pulp and paper biosolids. 2. Sewage biosolids. 3. Anaerobic digestion output, if less than 50 per cent, by volume, of the total amount of anaerobic digestion materials that were treated in the mixed anaerobic digestion facility were on-farm anaerobic digestion materials. 3.1 Restricted anaerobic digestion output. 4. Any other material, i. that is not from an agricultural source and that is capable of being applied to land as a nutrient, and ii. that is not an agricultural source material; | high |
| #D013 | | nutrient unit | means the amount of nutrients that give the fertilizer replacement value of the lower of 43 kilograms of nitrogen or 55 kilograms of phosphate as nutrient as established by reference to the Nutrient Management Protocol; | high |
| #D014 | | pulp and paper biosolids | means solid or liquid material that results from the treatment of wastewater generated by a manufacturer of pulp, paper, recycled paper or paper products including corrugated cardboard; | high |
| #D015 | | surface water | means, subject to subsection (2), (a) a natural or artificial channel that carries water continuously throughout the year, or intermittently, and does not have established vegetation within the bed of the channel except vegetation dominated by plant communities that require or prefer the continuous presence of water or continuously saturated soil for their survival, (b) a lake, reservoir, pond or sinkhole, or (c) a wetland, such as a swamp, marsh, bog or fen, but not land that is being used for agricultural purposes that no longer exhibits wetland characteristics, if the wetland, (i) is seasonally or permanently covered by shallow water or has the water close to the surface of the ground, and (ii) has hydric soils and vegetation dominated by hydrophytic or water-tolerant plants. | high |
| #D016 | | restricted period | means the period that begins on December 1 in any year and ends on March 31 of the following year. | high |
| #D017 | | frozen | when used in reference to soil, means that a layer of soil with an average minimum depth of five centimetres, located within the top 15 centimetres of the soil, is consolidated by the presence of frozen moisture; | high |
| #D018 | | snow-covered | when used in reference to soil, means that there is a layer of snow with an average minimum depth of five centimetres. | high |
| #D019 | | milking centre washwater | means, (a) the liquid generated from washing, (i) any part of a milking system, (ii) a bulk tank, and (iii) the interior surfaces of a milkroom and a milking parlour, and (b) if cheese, butter, yogurt or any other dairy product is made on the farm unit, exclusively from milk produced there, the liquid generated from washing, (i) the equipment used in making the dairy products, and (ii) the interior surfaces of the rooms containing the equipment; | high |
| #D020 | | floor transfer system | means a system where a floor is used to transfer liquid manure, but does not include, (a) areas within a barn that are designed to house livestock and that are not intended to collect liquid manure, (b) areas under dairy free-stalls, (c) feed trough areas, (d) floors under solid manure pack areas. | high |
| #D021 | | total organic matter | means the quantity of material lost on ignition, according to section 4.3.3 of the Sampling and Analysis Protocol, expressed as a percentage of the initial dry weight of the sample. | high |
| #D022 | | Category 2 non-agricultural source materials" or "Category 2 NASM | means non-agricultural source materials described in Table 2 of Schedule 4; | high |
| #D023 | | Category 3 non-agricultural source materials" or "Category 3 NASM | means non-agricultural source materials described in Table 3 of Schedule 4; | high |
| #D024 | | CM1 | when used in reference to NASM, means that its content of a regulated metal does not exceed the concentration set out in Column 2 or 3 of Table 1 of Schedule 5; | high |
| #D025 | | CM2 | when used in reference to NASM, means that its content of a regulated metal exceeds that of CM1 NASM but does not exceed the concentration set out in Column 2 or 3 of Table 2 of Schedule 5; | high |
| #D026 | | CP1 | when used in reference to NASM, means that its content of a pathogen named in Column 1 of Table 1 or Table 2 of Schedule 6 does not exceed the level set out in Column 2 or 3 of Table 1 or Column 2 or 3 of Table 2; | high |
| #D027 | | CP2 | when used in reference to NASM, means that, (a) its content of E. coli exceeds that of CP1 NASM but does not exceed the level set out in Column 2 or 3 of Table 3 of Schedule 6, or (b) its content of a pathogen other than E. coli named in Column 1 of Table 1 or Table 2 of Schedule 6 exceeds that of CP1 NASM, but its content of E. coli does not exceed that of CP2 NASM; | high |
| #D028 | | OC1 | when used in reference to NASM, means that it has an odour detection threshold of less than 500 odour units per cubic metre as determined in accordance with the NASM Odour Guide; | high |
| #D029 | | OC2 | when used in reference to NASM, means that it has an odour detection threshold of 500 or more but less than 1500 odour units per cubic metre as determined in accordance with the NASM Odour Guide; | high |
| #D030 | | OC3 | when used in reference to NASM, means that it has an odour detection threshold of 1500 or more but less than 4500 odour units per cubic metre as determined in accordance with the NASM Odour Guide; | high |
| #D031 | | regulated metal | means arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, selenium or zinc; | high |
| #D032 | | sewage biosolids | means the residue from a sewage treatment works following treatment of sewage and removal of effluent; | high |
| #D033 | | well | includes a gas well, oil well, unused well, test well and water well. | high |
| #D034 | | bucket milking system | means a milking system where farm animals are milked directly into buckets which are manually transferred to the milkroom; | high |
| #D035 | | clean-out material | means anaerobic digestion output material that has been removed from an anaerobic digestion vessel due to floating or settling of the material and that has been recovered as part of maintenance of the anaerobic digestion vessel. | high |
| #D036 | | committee | means a local advisory committee. | high |
| #D037 | | designated policy | means a policy described in Schedule 1 that has been designated in an initiative under subsection 19 (4); | high |
| #D038 | | Great Lakes ministers | means the ministers responsible for the ministries that were involved in the development of the Strategy or that are involved in the implementation of the Strategy; | high |
| #D039 | | Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin | means, (a) the part of Ontario, the water of which drains into the Great Lakes or the St. Lawrence River, including the parts of the Great Lakes and of the St. Lawrence River that are within Ontario, or (b) if the boundaries of the area described by clause (a) are described more specifically by the regulations, the area within those boundaries; | high |
| #D040 | | instrument | means any document of legal effect, including a permit, licence, approval, authorization, direction or order, that is issued or otherwise created under an Act, but does not include, (a) a regulation within the meaning of Part III (Regulations) of the Legislation Act, 2006 , or (b) a by-law of a municipality or local board; | high |
| #D041 | | local board | has the same meaning as in the Municipal Affairs Act ; | high |
| #D042 | | Minister | means, except where otherwise indicated, the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change or any other member of the Executive Council to whom responsibility for the administration of this Act is assigned or transferred under the Executive Council Act ; | high |
| #D043 | | Ministry | means the ministry of the Minister; | high |
| #D044 | | municipal planning authority | means a municipal planning authority established under section 14.1 of the Planning Act ; | high |
| #D045 | | planning board | means a planning board established under section 9 or 10 of the Planning Act ; | high |
| #D046 | | prescribed instrument | means an instrument that is prescribed by the regulations made under clause 38 (1) (a); | high |
| #D047 | | public body | means, (a) a municipality, local board or conservation authority, (b) a ministry, board, commission, agency or official of the Government of Ontario, or (c) a body that has been prescribed by the regulations or an official of such a body; | high |
| #D048 | | regulations | means the regulations made under this Act; | high |
| #D049 | | Strategy | means the document entitled “Ontario’s Great Lakes Strategy” that is published by the Government of Ontario, dated December 2012 and available to the public on a website of the Government of Ontario, as amended under section 5. | high |
| #D050 | | person | includes, but is not limited to, the Crown and its employees and agents, any other public body and their members, employees and agents and members of the Executive Council. | high |
| #D051 | | Agronomy Guide for Field Crops | means the Agronomy Guide for Field Crops, Publication 811, published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs in 2009; | high |
| #D052 | | anaerobic digestion materials reception system | means any system or building used to receive off-farm anaerobic digestion materials or on-farm anaerobic digestion materials that are fruit, vegetables or plant materials from the production and processing of fruit or vegetables, for treatment in a regulated mixed anaerobic digestion facility; | high |
| #D053 | | anaerobic digestion materials transfer system | means a system used to move any off-farm anaerobic digestion materials or on-farm anaerobic digestion materials that are fruit, vegetables or plant materials from the production and processing of fruit or vegetables, from one component to another of a regulated mixed anaerobic digestion facility, but does not include a vehicle used to transport the materials; | high |
| #D054 | | anaerobic digestion vessel | means a vessel that is a component of a regulated mixed anaerobic digestion facility where the treatment of anaerobic digestion materials through time and temperature occurs, but does not include any vessel used exclusively to heat materials before treatment pursuant to subsection 98.9 (2); | high |
| #D055 | | application | in relation to the application of a material to land, does not include the direct deposit onto land of feces or urine by animals; | high |
| #D056 | | approved design capacity | in relation to a sewage treatment works, means design capacity as approved for the sewage treatment works pursuant to an environmental compliance approval issued in respect of an activity mentioned in subsection 53 (1) of the Ontario Water Resources Act ; | high |
| #D057 | | aquifer | means an underground formation of saturated permeable rock or saturated loose material including soil that can produce useable quantities of water when tapped by a well; | high |
| #D058 | | biogas upgrading system | means the biogas upgrader and any associated gas treatment equipment; | high |
| #D059 | | broking operation | means an operation by virtue of which a person is a broker; | high |
| #D060 | | Building Code | means Ontario Regulation 332/12 (“Building Code”) made under the Building Code Act, 1992 ; | high |
| #D061 | | commercial, community or institutional use | means any commercial, community or institutional use, including without limitation the use of land for, (a) an office building, (b) a hotel, motel, hostel or similar type of accommodation, (c) an overnight camp or overnight campgrounds, (d) indoor recreational or sporting activities, (e) indoor gatherings for civic, religious or social purposes, (f) indoor performing arts activities, (g) a railway station, airport passenger terminal or other embarkation or debarkation point for travellers, (h) a day care centre, (i) educational purposes, including a school, college, university, career college or associated residence, (j) a health care facility, or (k) a penitentiary, jail or other place of custody or detention; | high |
| #D062 | | compacted soil liner | in relation to a permanent nutrient storage facility, means a liner composed of hydraulically secure soil that is compacted to 95 per cent of modified Proctor density at the optimum moisture content to meet a maximum saturated hydraulic conductivity of not more than 1 × 10 -9 metres per second; | high |
| #D063 | | Compost Standards | means the document published by the Ministry of the Environment entitled “Ontario Compost Quality Standards”, as amended from time to time, originally dated July 25, 2012 and available through the Ministry’s website on the Internet and through the Ministry’s Public Information Centre; | high |
| #D064 | | concrete | means Portland cement concrete; | high |
| #D065 | | contingency plan | means a proposal in a nutrient management strategy or plan for dealing with, (a) an excess of prescribed materials or nutrients, if the amount of prescribed materials or nutrients generated or received at a farm unit is greater than that otherwise provided for by the strategy or plan, (b) an excess of prescribed materials or nutrients, if the amount of prescribed materials or nutrients requiring storage prior to use exceeds or is anticipated to exceed the storage capacity available for prescribed materials or nutrients otherwise provided for by the strategy or plan, (c) unanticipated releases of prescribed materials or nutrients from storage or during transport or application, (d) inability to store, apply or otherwise use prescribed materials or nutrients as otherwise provided for by the strategy or plan, as a result of weather conditions or unavailability of equipment, or (e) any other contingency requiring the handling or storage of prescribed materials or nutrients in an emergency; | high |
| #D066 | | control | as a verb in relation to land, an agricultural operation or a non-agricultural operation, includes manage and operate; | high |
| #D067 | | crop residue | means the unharvested portion of a crop left on the surface of the soil of land after the harvest of a crop grown on the land; | high |
| #D068 | | Drainage Guide | means the Drainage Guide for Ontario, Publication 29, published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs in 2007; | high |
| #D069 | | dugout pond | means a pond, (a) that is constructed entirely within a farm unit, (b) that is not connected to surface water, (c) that is located more than 100 metres from the nearest surface water or well, and (d) to which access by livestock is entirely restricted or is limited so that livestock are only allowed to drink from the pond; | high |
| #D070 | | dwelling | means a structure that is used as a residence, including a mobile home or a seasonal home, but not including a structure that is in | high |
| #D071 | | earth | means inorganic components of the earth’s crust such as clay, silt, sand, gravel or any mixture of those components and may contain small amounts of organic materials; | high |
| #D072 | | engineered material | means synthetic material or natural material that has been reworked to create material that meets, (a) the standard set out in the definition of “hydraulically secure soil”, in the case of that soil, (b) the requirements specified in Part VIII, in the case of other material located immediately under a permanent nutrient storage facility; | high |
| #D073 | | environmental compliance approval | means an environmental compliance approval within the meaning of the Environmental Protection Act ; | high |
| #D074 | | farm feed | means any materials that are listed in paragraph 3 and subparagraphs 7 iv, v, viii and ix of Schedule 1; | high |
| #D075 | | feedstock system | means any of the following for receiving and handling off-farm anaerobic digestion materials or on-farm anaerobic digestion materials that are fruit, vegetables or plant materials from the production and processing of fruit or vegetables, prior to the materials going into the anaerobic digestion vessel, whether used independently or in conjunction with each other to form a larger feedstock system: 1. An anaerobic digestion materials reception system. 2. A facility for the storage of the materials. 3. A pre-treatment system. 4. An anaerobic digestion materials transfer system; | high |
| #D076 | | flow path | in relation to a facility, site, outdoor confinement area, temporary storage area or vegetated filter strip system, means a surface channel or depression that conducts liquids away from the facility, site, area or system; | high |
| #D077 | | geomembrane liner | means a synthetic membrane with very low permeability used to control fluid migration in a nutrient storage facility; | high |
| #D078 | | geosynthetic clay liner | means a liner that consists of high swelling sodium bentonite between two layers of geotextile fabric having a saturated hydraulic conductivity of 1 × 10-9 metres per second or less used to control fluid migration in a nutrient storage facility; | high |
| #D079 | | ground level | in relation to a nutrient storage facility, means the lowest surface grade within a perimeter of two metres of the facility; | high |
| #D080 | | high-density permanent outdoor confinement area | means an outdoor confinement area, (a) to which the animals confined in the area have access for 4,800 hours of the year and where the number of animals confined in the area, at any time, is sufficient to generate nutrients at a rate of more than 120 nutrient units per hectare annually, or (b) an area that meets the following requirements: (i) the animals confined in the area have access to the area for less than 4,800 hours of the year, (ii) the area is an outdoor confinement area that contains a sufficient number of farm animals to generate 300 or more nutrient units annually, (iii) the number of nutrient units generated by the animals confined in the area in the year multiplied by the proportion of the year during which the animals are confined in the area is more than five nutrient units per hectare; | high |
| #D081 | | hydraulically secure soil | means natural soil that is consistent in nature and able to meet a maximum saturated hydraulic conductivity of 1 × 10-8 metres per second; | high |
| #D082 | | hydrologic soil group | means a hydrologic soil group determined in accordance with the Drainage Guide; | high |
| #D083 | | incorporation | means the mixing of nutrients into the surface of soil by tillage with a minimum depth of soil disturbance of 10 centimetres; | high |
| #D084 | | injection | in relation to the application of nutrients to land, means the placement of nutrients below the surface of the soil of the land; | high |
| #D085 | | intermediate generator | means a person who owns or controls an intermediate operation; | high |
| #D086 | | intermediate operation | means an operation carried out with prescribed materials generated in the course of another operation, resulting in the production of prescribed materials that have different characteristics from those of the materials in the form in which they were generated, such as nutrient content, density or volume but does not include an operation that mixes only manure produced by farm animals or that mixes anaerobic digestion materials in a regulated mixed anaerobic digestion facility; | high |
| #D087 | | liner | includes a geomembrane liner, a geosynthetic clay liner and a compacted soil liner; | high |
| #D088 | | liquid | in relation to prescribed materials or nutrients, means prescribed materials or nutrients that are not solid; | high |
| #D089 | | liquid nutrient transfer system | means all pipes and surfaces that come into contact with liquid prescribed materials during the movement of those materials to a permanent nutrient storage facility but does not include the components of a permanent liquid nutrient storage facility or a vehicle that is used to transport liquid nutrients; | high |
| #D090 | | livestock | includes poultry and ratites; | high |
| #D091 | | living crop | means a crop that has been planted and has emerged from the soil, and if it is dormant, that must be reasonably expected to resume growing under suitable conditions; | high |
| #D092 | | low-density permanent outdoor confinement area | means an outdoor confinement area used for 4,800 hours or more in a calendar year where the number of animals confined in the area, at any time, is not sufficient to generate nutrients at a rate of more than 120 nutrient units per hectare annually; | high |
| #D093 | | maximum sustained slope | means the change in elevation from the top to the bottom of a slope divided by the length of the slope expressed as a percentage, where the slope has a minimum length of 10 metres and where the slope is towards surface water; | high |
| #D094 | | mixed anaerobic digestion | means anaerobic digestion of both on-farm anaerobic digestion materials and off-farm anaerobic digestion materials in the same facility; | high |
| #D095 | | mixed anaerobic digestion facility | means an anaerobic digestion facility that treats both on-farm anaerobic digestion materials and off-farm anaerobic digestion materials on a farm unit on which an agricultural operation is carried out; | high |
| #D096 | | municipal well | means a well that serves as a raw water supply for a municipal drinking water system as defined in the Safe Drinking Water Act, 2002 ; | high |
| #D097 | | NASM application area | means the part or parts of the land of a farm unit to which NASM is applied; | high |
| #D098 | | NASM Odour Guide | means, (a) the document of that name prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of the Environment for the purposes of this Regulation and dated July 25, 2012, and (b) Table 3 (NASM Odour Category Table) of the Nutrient Management Tables; | high |
| #D099 | | NASM plan | means a nutrient management plan for the management of NASM and other nutrients that may be applied to NASM application areas or stored in NASM storage facilities; | high |
| #D100 | | NASM plan area | means a NASM application area together with any associated NASM storage facility on the same farm unit; | high |
| #D101 | | NASM storage facility | means a permanent nutrient storage facility or temporary field nutrient storage site, (a) that is used to store NASM, and (b) that is not subject to an environmental compliance approval issued in respect of an activity mentioned in subsection 27 (1) of the Environmental Protection Act. | high |
| #D102 | | non-agricultural operation | means, (a) an intermediate or broking operation, or (b) any other operation, other than an agricultural operation, that involves the generation or management of prescribed materials or nutrients; | high |
| #D103 | | non-farm herbivorous animal | means a mammal that is not a farm animal or a primate, and whose primary diet, in its natural state, is obtained by grazing or browsing on herbivorous materials such as grass, leaves, woody shoots, grains or seeds; | high |
| #D104 | | Nutrient Management Protocol | means, (a) the document of that name prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of the Environment for the purposes of this Regulation and dated November 10, 2021, and (b) Table 1 (Nutrient Unit Livestock Information Table) and Table 2 (Manure Databank) of the Nutrient Management Tables; | high |
| #D105 | | Nutrient Management Tables | means the document of that name, as amended from time to time, prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of the Environment for the purposes of the NASM Odour Guide and the Nutrient Management Protocol; | high |
| #D106 | | observation and shut-off station | means an observation station that is equipped with a valve attached to the gravity outflow pipe to allow the flow of liquid in a tile drain to be shut off; | high |
| #D107 | | observation station | means a device that intercepts the flow of liquid in a tile drain and that is used to collect, observe and monitor the amount and condition of liquid in the tile drain; | high |
| #D108 | | off-farm anaerobic digestion materials | means anaerobic digestion materials that are not generated at an agricultural operation and that are received at an agricultural operation from an outside source; | high |
| #D109 | | on-farm anaerobic digestion materials | means anaerobic digestion materials that are generated at an agricultural operation; | high |
| #D110 | | operation | means an agricultural operation or a non-agricultural operation; | high |
| #D111 | | operation identifier | means a unique identifier that a Director assigns, for the purposes of a nutrient management strategy or plan, to an operation or a farm unit on which an agricultural operation is carried out; | high |
| #D112 | | organic soils | means soils containing more than 17 per cent organic carbon by weight, commonly known as peat, muck, bog or fen soils; | high |
| #D113 | | outdoor confinement area | means an enclosure for livestock, deer, elk or game animals that has the following characteristics: 1. It has no roof, except as described in paragraph 3. 2. It is composed of fences, pens, corrals or similar structures. 3. It may contain a shelter to protect the animals from the wind or another shelter with a roof of an area of less than 20 square metres. 4. It has permanent or portable feeding or watering equipment. 5. The animals are fed or watered at the enclosure. 6. The animals may or may not have access to other buildings or structures for shelter, feeding or watering. 7. Grazing and foraging provides less than 50 per cent of dry matter intake; | high |
| #D114 | | permanent liquid NASM storage facility | means a NASM storage facility that is a permanent liquid nutrient storage facility; | high |
| #D115 | | permanent liquid nutrient storage facility | means a permanent nutrient storage facility that is designed and constructed to contain liquid prescribed material; | high |
| #D116 | | permanent NASM storage facility | means a NASM storage facility that is a permanent nutrient storage facility; | high |
| #D117 | | permanent nutrient storage facility | means a facility for storing prescribed material, including a storage facility made of earth that is a permanent structure or part of a permanent structure, but does not include, (a) a permanent solid nutrient storage facility that has less than 14 days of storage capacity, (b) a permanent liquid nutrient storage facility that has less than 14 days of storage capacity and a maximum depth of liquid nutrient that is less than 100 millimetres, (c) nutrient application or irrigation systems used to deliver liquid fertilizer to crops, (d) a permanent nutrient storage facility used solely as part of a vegetated filter strip system, or (e) a regulated mixed anaerobic digestion facility; | high |
| #D118 | | permanent outdoor confinement area | means an outdoor confinement area that is either a high-density permanent outdoor confinement area or a low-density permanent outdoor confinement area; | high |
| #D119 | | permanent solid NASM storage facility | means a NASM storage facility that is a permanent solid nutrient storage facility; | high |
| #D120 | | permanent solid nutrient storage facility | means a permanent nutrient storage facility that is designed and constructed to contain solid prescribed material; | high |
| #D121 | | prescribed material | means an agricultural source material or a non-agricultural source material; | high |
| #D122 | | pretilled | means land that is sufficiently disturbed by tillage to disrupt large cracks and pores that could conduct liquid materials into subsurface soil or tile drains; | high |
| #D123 | | pre-treatment system | means a system used for separation, cleaning, chopping, mixing, thermal treatment and other size reduction and temperature treatments of off-farm anaerobic digestion materials or on-farm anaerobic digestion materials that are fruit, vegetables or plant materials from the production and processing of fruit or vegetables; | high |
| #D124 | | professional engineer | means a person who holds a licence or a temporary licence under the Professional Engineers Act , but does not include a person who holds a limited licence issued under that Act; | high |
| #D125 | | professional geoscientist | means a person who is a member in good standing of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario or who holds a valid certificate of authorization under the Professional Geoscientists Act, 2000 , but does not include a limited member or a non-practising member of that Association; | high |
| #D126 | | regulated mixed anaerobic digestion facility | means a mixed anaerobic digestion facility that is regulated under Part IX.1 that, (a) is not subject to an environmental compliance approval issued in respect of an activity mentioned in subsection 27 (1) of the Environmental Protection Act, (b) is not subject to a renewable energy approval issued under the Environmental Protection Act in respect of an anaerobic digestion facility, (c) is operated for the purpose of managing materials containing nutrients in order to produce methane, and (d) is composed of an anaerobic digestion vessel and any of the following components: [lists components (i) to (xi)]; | high |
| #D127 | | residential area | means an area in which there are four or more lots of not more than one hectare, (a) that are adjacent to each other or not separated by anything other than a road allowance or right of way, and (b) on each of which there is a residential building; | high |
| #D128 | | restricted anaerobic digestion output | means material described in subsection (1.2); | high |
| #D129 | | Sampling and Analysis Protocol | means the document of that name prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks for the purposes of this Regulation and dated July 1, 2021; | high |
| #D130 | | site characterization | means a site characterization carried out in accordance with a study under Part VIII; | high |
| #D131 | | soil test hole | means a hole that is dug or drilled into soil for the purpose of determining the characteristics of the soil in accordance with this Regulation; | high |
| #D132 | | solid | in relation to prescribed materials or nutrients, means having a dry matter content of 18 per cent or more or a slump of 150 millimetres or less using the Test Method for the Determination of Liquid Waste (slump test) set out in Schedule 9 to Regulation 347 made under the Environmental Protection Act ; | high |
| #D133 | | source separated organics | means organic waste that has been separated from other waste under a program operated by or for a municipality; | high |
| #D134 | | synthetic liner | means a geomembrane liner or a geosynthetic clay liner; | high |
| #D135 | | temporary field nutrient storage site | means a location that is not a permanent nutrient storage facility and where solid prescribed materials are stored for more than 24 hours; | high |
| #D136 | | tillage | means the mechanical disturbance of soil so as to be turned, mixed or displaced from its undisturbed state; | high |
| #D137 | | top | in relation to a defined channel or a bank of surface water, means, (a) the edge of the channel or bank, if there is a sharp change from the steep slope of the channel or bank to the shallower slope of the field area, or (b) the normal full extent of the watercourse when it contains the maximum volume of water without flooding, if the change in slope described in clause (a) does not exist; | high |
| #D138 | | transfer date | when used in reference to NASM, means, (a) the date of land application, if the NASM is generated in an intermediate operation on the same farm unit where it is applied, or (b) the date on which the NASM is removed from the place where it is generated, in all other cases; | high |
| #D139 | | treatment system | means a treatment system that is capable of changing the characteristics of an input stream that contains nutrients; | high |
| #D140 | | unsaturated | means a soil water content that is less than 100 per cent of the total pore space, or that is at a negative soil water pressure as determined according to the Nutrient Management Protocol for unsaturated soil conditions; | high |
| #D141 | | untreated septage | means one or more of the following materials that has not been treated to reduce pathogens: 1. Human body waste. 2. Toilet or other bathroom waste. 3. Material described in paragraph 1 or 2 that is mixed with other materials for a reason other than treatment; | high |
| #D142 | | vegetated buffer zone | means an area that, (a) has a width of at least three metres, adjacent to the top of the bank of surface water, measured away from the top of the bank of the surface water nearest the buffer zone, and (b) is maintained under continuous vegetated cover, including perennial grasses, forbs or trees and perennial forage crops that can be harvested as hay or silage; | high |
| #D143 | | vegetated filter strip | means a densely vegetated strip of land engineered and constructed to intercept and treat runoff by settling, filtration, dilution, adsorption of pollutants and infiltration into the soil; | high |
| #D144 | | vegetated filter strip system | means a complete system that is engineered for treating runoff and includes all of the following: 1. A component that collects and stores the runoff and allows solids in the runoff to settle. 2. A component that screens the runoff to remove coarse material. 3. A component that transfers the runoff to the vegetated filter strip, which may include a pump if necessary. 4. A distribution pipe, or an equivalent mechanism, that distributes runoff uniformly across the vegetated filter strip. 5. A vegetated filter strip; | high |
| #D145 | | water table | in relation to land, means the highest level of water found in the ground, as recorded in the water well records for the nearest water wells to the land or as determined by a test hole dug at the time of or before the placing of materials containing nutrients at a temporary field nutrient storage site located on the land; | high |
| #D146 | | bulk tank | means a tank that is designed to store and cool milk; | high |
| #D147 | | dairy operation | means an agricultural operation where farm animals are milked; | high |
| #D148 | | milking parlour | means a common indoor area where farm animals are brought for milking; | high |
| #D149 | | milking system | means a bucket milking system, a parlour milking system, a pipeline milking system, or a robotic milking system; | high |
| #D150 | | milkroom | means the room where the bulk tank is located; | high |
| #D151 | | parlour milking system | means a milking system where farm animals are brought to a milking parlour for milking, but does not include a robotic milking system; | high |
| #D152 | | pipeline milking system | means a milking system where milk is transferred to the milkroom, by a pipe, from farm animals who are confined to stalls by means of a tie system; | high |
| #D153 | | robotic milking system | means a milking system where farm animals present themselves to be milked by an automatic milking unit; | high |
| #D154 | | sediment tank | means a watertight container with at least two compartments that is used to collect and separate settled and floating solids in milking centre washwater and that is, (a) a septic tank to which the Building Code applies, or (b) a sewage works to which the Ontario Water Resources Act applies; | high |
| #D155 | | sludge pump-out | means the material that remains in a sediment tank after liquid moves to the treatment trench system; | high |
| #D156 | | treatment trench system | means a system that is used to treat milking centre washwater and distribute it into the soil and that is, (a) a leaching bed as defined in the Building Code, or (b) a sewage works to which the Ontario Water Resources Act applies. | high |
| #D157 | | property | means land acquired under a single transfer as defined in the Land Registration Reform Act. | high |
| #D158 | | Protocol | This protocol of Accepted Drinking Water Testing Methods (Protocol) sets out testing methods that may be used to conduct tests of Ontario drinking water. | high |
| #D159 | | SDWA | Safe Drinking Water Act, 2002 (SDWA) | high |
| #D160 | | LaSB Methods | Licensed methods used by the ministry Laboratory Services Branch (LaSB) for the testing of drinking water. | high |
| #D161 | | AWWA Methods | Methods described in the reference Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association (AWWA) and Water Environmental Federation. | high |
| #D162 | | US EPA Methods | Methods of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). | high |
| #D163 | | ASTM Methods | Methods of ASTM International (formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials) (ASTM). | high |
| #D164 | | ISO Methods | Methods of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). | high |
| #D165 | | overgrown | over-crowding, confluent or non-identifiable microbial growth | high |
| #D166 | | TEQ | Toxic equivalent quantity = sum of individual TE/congener | high |
| #D167 | | EDL | Estimated detection limit | high |
| #D168 | | TEF | Toxic equivalent factor (WHO, 2005) | high |
| #D169 | | TE/congener | Toxic equivalence / congener | high |
| #D170 | | cool | For this appendix, cool means storage at the laboratory at any temperature range between > 0°C (above freezing point of water) and ≤ 8°C. | high |
| #D171 | | MDL | method detection limit | high |
| #D172 | | RDL | reporting detection limit | high |
| #D173 | | ODWQS | Ontario Drinking Water Quality Standards | high |
| #D174 | | selectivity | its ability to measure analytes of interest in the presence of other chemicals | high |
| #D175 | | ruggedness | the ability of the method to be unaffected by slight changes in testing conditions including laboratory environmental conditions | high |
| #D176 | | total cyanide | Strong acid dissociable is considered to be total cyanide | high |
| #D177 | | free cyanide | weak acid dissociable is considered to be free cyanide | high |
| #D178 | | ISO | International Organization for Standardization | high |
| #D179 | | IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission | high |
| #D180 | | LaSB | Laboratory Services Branch | high |
| #D181 | | AWWA | American Water Works Association | high |
| #D182 | | US EPA | United States Environmental Protection Agency | high |
| #D183 | | ASTM | American Society for Testing and Materials | high |
| #D184 | | WHO | World Health Organization | high |
| #D185 | | GC | Gas Chromatography | high |
| #D186 | | MS | Mass Spectrometry | high |
| #D187 | | LC | Liquid Chromatography | high |
| #D188 | | ESI | Electrospray Ionization | high |
| #D189 | | mTEC | membrane thermotolerant E. coli | high |
| #D190 | | EC | Escherichia coli | high |
| #D191 | | TC | total coliforms | high |
| #D192 | | PCA | plate count agar | high |
| #D193 | | P/A | Presence/Absence | high |
| #D194 | | IMS | immunomagnetic separation | high |
| #D195 | | FA | fluorescent antibody | high |
| #D196 | | TCDD | tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin | high |
| #D197 | | HRGC | high resolution gas chromatography | high |
| #D198 | | HRMS | high resolution mass spectrometry | high |
| #D199 | | NTA | Nitrilotriacetic Acid | high |
| #D200 | | SPE | Solid phase extraction | high |
| #D201 | | HRQTFMS | High Resolution Quadrupole Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry | high |
| #D202 | | MCAA | Monochloroacetic acid | high |
| #D203 | | DCAA | Dichloroacetic acid | high |
| #D204 | | TCAA | Trichloroacetic acid | high |
| #D205 | | MBAA | Monobromoacetic acid | high |
| #D206 | | DBAA | Dibromoacetic acid | high |
| #D207 | | QC | Quality Control | high |
| #D208 | | PCBs | polychlorinated biphenyls | high |
| #D209 | | TTHMs | Total Trihalomethanes | high |
| #D210 | | Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs) | sum of: Bromoform (CAS number: 75-25-2) Bromodichloromethane (CAS number 75-27-4), Chloroform (CAS number 67-66-3) and Chlorodibromomethane (CAS number 124-48-1) | high |
| #D211 | | Xylene, Total | sum of ortho xylene (CAS number 95-47-6 and meta/para xylene (CAS numbers 108-38-3 and 106-42-3) | high |
| #D212 | | Haloacetic acids (HAA5) | sum of: Monochloroacetic acid (MCAA), CAS number 79-11-8; Dichloroacetic acid (DCAA), CAS number 79-43-6; Trichloroacetic acid (TCAA), CAS number 76-03-9; Monobromoacetic acid (MBAA) CAS number 79-08-3; Dibromoacetic acid (DBAA), CAS number 631-64-1 | high |