Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act — M-0.2 90.3
Regulations — federal areas 90.3 (1) The Governor in Council may, following consultation by the federal Minister with the Gwich’in and Sahtu First Nations and the Tlicho Government, make regulations respecting the use of waters and the deposit of waste in federal areas and, in particular, may make regulations (a) on the recommendation of the federal Minister and a board, (i) establishing water management areas consisting of river basins or other geo­graph­ical areas, and (ii) classifying purposes of waters use in any water management area; (b) prescribing, for the purposes of paragraphs (b) to (d) of the definition waste in section 51, (i) substances and classes of substances, (ii) quantities or concentrations of substances and classes of substances in water, and (iii) treatments, processes and changes of water; (c) setting out the criteria to be applied by a board in determining whether a proposed use of waters or deposit of waste for which a licence is required under this Act requires a type A licence or a type B licence; (d) setting out the procedure to be followed on an application to a board; (e) prescribing the forms to be used for applications to a board, the information to be submitted to a board in connection with any application and the form in which any of that information is to be submitted; (f) prescribing forms, in addition to any forms prescribed under paragraph (e); (g) respecting the amount of the security referred to in subsection 72.11(1), and prescribing the form and conditions of the security, which regulations may empower a board to fix the amount of the security subject to a maximum specified in, or determined in accordance with, those regulations; (h) prescribing water quality standards; (i) prescribing effluent standards; (j) prescribing standards for the design, construction, operation and maintenance of works related to the use of waters or the deposit of waste; (k) prescribing fees to be paid for the right to use waters or deposit waste under a licence; (l) prescribing the times at which and the manner in which fees prescribed under paragraph (k) shall be paid; (m) subject to any order made under subsection 91.1(2), authorizing the use without a licence of waters in a water management area for a purpose or use, in a quantity or at a rate, or for a period, or any combination of purpose, use, quantity, rate or period, specified in the regulations, and prescribing the conditions under which those waters may be used without a licence; (n) subject to any order made under subsection 91.1(2), prescribing quantities, concentrations and types of waste that may be deposited without a licence, and the conditions under which any such waste may be deposited; (o) prescribing the manner in which a report under subsection 72.01(3) is to be made and the information to be contained in it and designating a person or authority, in lieu of an inspector, to whom the report is to be made; (p) requiring persons who use waters or deposit waste in a water management area (i) to maintain books and records for the proper enforcement of this Part, and (ii) to submit to a board, on a regular monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis, a report on any of their operations to which this Part applies, and specifying the information to be contained in it; (q) requiring persons who deposit waste in a water management area (i) to submit representative samples of the waste to a board for analysis, or (ii) to analyse representative samples of the waste and submit the results of the analysis to a board; (r) respecting the taking of representative samples of waters or waste and respecting the method of analysis of those samples; (s) respecting the duties of persons designated as analysts under subsection 84(2); (t) prescribing anything that is to be prescribed under this Act; and (u) generally, for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Part. Regulations — Mackenzie Valley (2) The Governor in Council may, following consultat