Environmental Response Regulations — 18
Content — response plan 18 (1) A response organization must include the following in its response plan: (a) the response organization’s name and address; (b) a description of its geographic area and an indication of the designated ports, the primary areas of response and any enhanced response areas in the geographic area; (c) the name and position of each member of its permanent personnel who has duties and responsibilities in the event of an oil pollution incident; (d) the names and places of business of the contractors that are or may be contracted by the response organization to respond in the event of an oil pollution incident, as well as a description of their role in the event of such an incident and the number of each contractor’s employees that may be requested to respond at the location affected by the incident, if any; (e) the procedures to be followed for notifying personnel and contractors; (f) a list of the vessels that are not owned by the response organization that may be used to support its response to an oil pollution incident as well as the function of each vessel during response operations; (g) the procedures to be followed for treatment in its geographic area in response to an oil pollution incident; (h) the procedures to be followed to obtain any approval from a governmental authority required in respect of the measures to be taken for the activities referred to in paragraphs 22 (a) to (g); (i) a list of the types and quantity of equipment necessary to treat 150 tonnes of discharged oil in each designated port in its geographic area — by estimating that the oil will be allocated according to the percentages for the applicable port set out in column 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 — as well as an indication of the operating environments and types of oil for which the equipment will be used; (j) a list of the types and quantity of equipment necessary for on-water containment and on-water recovery and storage of recovered materials, as well as the site where that equipment is stored and the operating environments and types of oil for which the equipment will be used; (k) a list of the types and quantity of equipment necessary for bird hazing; (l) the capacity of each item of equipment to be used for on-water recovery and storage of recovered materials, as determined in accordance with the document entitled Environmental Response Standards , TP 14909, published by the Department of Transport, as amended from time to time, if applicable; (m) the equipment to be used for on-water containment as required by the document entitled Environmental Response Standards , TP 14909, published by the Department of Transport, as amended from time to time, including the length of the equipment as determined in accordance with that document; (n) a description, by role, of the training required for any person who may be requested to respond to an oil pollution incident, including the frequency of the training; (o) a description of its exercise program, referred to in section 26 , and the schedule established under subsection 27 (1); (p) the measures to be taken by the response organization, in accordance with the applicable federal and provincial regulations, to protect the health and safety of any person who may be requested to respond to an oil pollution incident; (q) its daily hours of operation in the event of a response to an oil pollution incident and how it will allocate its time within those hours to treat its geographic area, including the number of hours dedicated to on-water recovery operations; (r) a description of how it divides its entire geographic area into smaller areas; (s) a list of any plans for its geographic area that it took into account in developing the response plan; and (t) a declaration that the equipment and resources referred to in the response plan are available to the response organization and that the response organization is capable of implementing the procedures included in the response plan. Contin