Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Area Petroleum Operations Framework Regulations — 10
Environmental protection plan 10 (1) An operator must develop an environmental protection plan that sets out the procedures, practices, resources and monitoring measures that are necessary to protect the environment from the effects of a proposed work or activity, the target levels of safety in respect of the work or activity and measures for hazard management. Documents and information (2) The environmental protection plan must include the following documents and information: (a) specific references to and detailed descriptions of the provisions of the management system that relate to the protection of the environment, sufficient to demonstrate how the obligations set out in these Regulations with regard to environmental protection will be fulfilled; (b) a document that includes (i) a summary of the studies that have been carried out, and a description of the processes that will be followed, for the purposes of (A) identifying hazards related to the proposed work or activity that may occur during routine and non-routine operations, including any hazards posed by any other activities taking place near the proposed work or activity, and (B) assessing environmental risks associated with the identified hazards, (ii) a description of the identified hazards referred to in clause (i)(A) and the results of the assessments referred to in clause (i)(B), (iii) a summary of the measures to be implemented to anticipate environmental risks related to the identified hazards, (iv) a summary and evaluation of the measures to be implemented to reduce the environmental risks associated with the identified hazards, and (v) a detailed description of the measures to be implemented to reduce environmental risks to a level that is as low as reasonably practicable in respect of (A) the design of all installations, including their systems and equipment, (B) the design, winterization and operation of any installation that is to be operated in a cold climate, (C) the design, arrangement, installation and maintenance of barriers to provide fire and blast protection, (D) the design of all control systems, (E) the design, selection, location, installation, commissioning, protection, operation, inspection and maintenance of mechanical equipment, (F) the design, construction, installation, commissioning, operation, inspection, monitoring, testing and maintenance of any subsea production system under all foreseeable physical and environmental conditions and operating conditions for all modes of operation, and (G) the management of temporary or portable equipment, and (vi) a detailed description of the measures to be implemented in respect of the design and location of any vent that is used to release gas into the atmosphere without combustion in order to minimize the risk of accidental ignition of the gas, and (vii) a summary of the measures to be implemented for communicating the identified hazards and for mitigating the environmental risks associated with those hazards to all persons who are directly affected; (c) a description of all installations or vessels that are to be used during the proposed work or activity, a description of their systems and equipment that are critical to the protection of the environment and a brief description of the systems in place for the inspection, testing and maintenance of those systems and that equipment; (d) in the case of a drilling program or a production project, the procedures for the selection, evaluation and use of chemical substances, including process chemicals and drilling fluid ingredients; (e) a description of the equipment and procedures for the treatment, handling and disposal of waste material; (f) a description of all of the discharge streams and the limits of any discharge into the environment, including any discharge of waste material; (g) a description of the system for monitoring compliance with the discharge limits referred to in paragraph (f), including the sampling and analytical programs for determ