General requirements for storage
 98.6 (1) No person shall store off-farm anaerobic digestion materials on a farm unit on which an agricultural operation is carried out for treatment in a regulated mixed anaerobic digestion facility except in accordance with the following rules: 1.  Revoked: O. Reg. 508/21, s. 21 (1). 2. No more than 200 cubic metre of materials, other than farm feed, may be stored at any one time. 3. Subject to the individual capacity of the operation, there is no limit to the amount of farm feed that may be stored. 4. Materials that have a dry matter content of less than 18 per cent must be stored in a sealed tank. 5. Subject to paragraph 6, materials that have a dry matter content of at least 18 per cent and no more than 50 per cent that are stored for more than 48 hours must be stored in an enclosed storage facility. 6. Farm feed that has the dry matter content described in paragraph 5 need not be stored in accordance with paragraph 5, but it must be stored with a cover that prevents precipitation from coming into contact with the farm feed. 7. Subject to paragraph 8, materials that have a dry matter content of more than 50 per cent that are stored for more than 30 days must be stored in a facility that has, i. walls that enclose at least 75 per cent of the area of the facility, and ii. a roof that covers the entire facility and is attached to the walls. 8. Farm feed that has the dry matter content described in paragraph 7 need not be stored in accordance with paragraph 7, but it must be stored with a cover that prevents precipitation from coming into contact with the farm feed. 9. Materials listed in Schedule 2 must be stored in a facility that was designed by a professional engineer to minimize odour emissions and was built to those design specifications. O. Reg. 394/07, s. 17; O. Reg. 338/09, s. 72; O. Reg. 508/21, s. 21 (1). (2) In the case of a regulated mixed anaerobic digestion facility that receives more than 10,000 cubic metres of off-farm anaerobic digestion materials in the preceding 12-month period, all manure that is received from another farm unit that is intended for treatment in the facility must be stored in a permanent nutrient storage facility that was constructed after June 30, 2003 in accordance with the requirements of this Regulation that were in force at the time the storage facility was constructed. O. Reg. 508/21, s. 21 (2). (3) No person shall store 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 on a farm unit on which an agricultural operation is carried out for treatment in a regulated mixed anaerobic digestion facility except in a storage facility that is part of a feedstock system. O. Reg. 508/21, s. 21 (2). (4) No person shall store 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 on a farm unit on which an agricultural operation is carried out for treatment in a regulated mixed anaerobic digestion facility except in a storage facility constructed after June 30, 2003 and constructed according to the rules for permanent nutrient storage facilities set out in Part VIII that were in force at the time the storage facility was constructed. O. Reg. 508/21, s. 21 (2). (5) Subsections (3) and (4) apply where more than 10,000 cubic metres of off-farm anaerobic digestion materials were received in the preceding 12-month period. O. Reg. 508/21, s. 21 (2).