General requirements for land application
 98.11 (1) This section applies, (a) in respect of the application of any anaerobic digestion output that falls within the definition of agricultural source material to land on a farm unit on which an agricultural operation is carried out; and (b) to all agricultural operations. O. Reg. 394/07, s. 17; O. Reg. 508/21, s. 26 (1). (2) No person shall apply anaerobic digestion output that falls within the definition of agricultural source material to land on a farm unit on which an agricultural operation is carried out except in accordance with the following rules: 1. The application must comply with every requirement in Part VI that governs the land application of agricultural source materials, prescribed materials or nutrients, except section 41. 2. The anaerobic digestion output must not be applied to an area whose maximum sustained slope is 25 per cent or greater if it lies within the zone that is 150 metres from the top of the bank of surface water. 3. The anaerobic digestion output must not be applied using a high trajectory irrigation gun capable of spraying liquid more than 10 metres unless the materials being applied are an aqueous solution or suspension containing more than 99 per cent water by weight. 4. The application must comply with section 52.7 and, for that purpose, every reference to “non-agricultural source materials” in that section shall be read as including a reference to “anaerobic digestion output”. 5. The anaerobic digestion output must not result from the treatment of anaerobic digestion materials that include materials listed in Schedule 3. O. Reg. 394/07, s. 17; O. Reg. 338/09, s. 73; O. Reg. 284/13, s. 14; O. Reg. 508/21, s. 26 (2). (3) Despite subsection (2), no person shall apply anaerobic digestion output that falls within the definition of agricultural source material and that results from the treatment of anaerobic digestion materials that include materials listed in Schedule 2B in a regulated mixed anaerobic digestion facility to land on a farm unit on which an agricultural operation is carried out if, (a) the output’s content of glass, metallic objects, plastic and other foreign objects exceeds 2 per cent, calculated on a dry weight basis; (b) the output’s content of plastic exceeds 0.5 per cent, calculated on a dry weight basis; (c) the output’s content of a regulated metal exceeds the maximum concentrations set out in column 2 or 3, as applicable, of Table 2 of Schedule 5; or (d) the output’s content of E. coli exceeds the maximum E. coli levels set out in column 2 of Table 3 of Schedule 6 if it is material containing less than 1 per cent total solids, wet weight or column 3 of Table 3 of Schedule 6, if it is material containing 1 per cent or more total solids, wet weight. O. Reg. 508/21, s. 26 (3). (4) Despite anything else in this Regulation, no person shall apply anaerobic digestion output that falls within the definition of agricultural source material and that results from the treatment of anaerobic digestion materials that include materials listed in Schedule 2B in a regulated mixed anaerobic digestion facility to land on a farm unit on which an agricultural operation is carried out unless at least one of the following conditions is satisfied: 1. In the case of solid or liquid ASM, the amount of total organic matter as defined in subsection 98.0.6 (2) is more than 15 per cent calculated on a dry weight basis. 2. In the case of solid or liquid ASM it is used to increase the soil pH value. 3. In the case of solid ASM, the total concentration of plant available nitrogen, plant available phosphate and plant available potassium, determined in accordance with the Sampling and Analysis Protocol, is more than 13,000 milligrams per kilogram of the ASM, calculated on a dry weight basis. 4. In the case of liquid ASM, the total concentration of plant available nitrogen, plant available phosphate and plant available potassium is more than 140 milligrams per litre of the ASM. 5. In the case of liquid ASM, the condition set out in paragraph 4 is not satisfied but the liquid ASM is an aqueous solution or suspension containing more than 99 per cent water by weight and is used to irrigate crops during the period that begins on June 15 and ends on September 30 of the same year. O. Reg. 508/21, s. 26 (3). (5) If testing is carried out to determine whether the anaerobic digestion output to be applied to land meets the standards in subsections (3) and (4), it must be carried out in accordance with the following rules: 1. Testing must be carried out in accordance with the Sampling and Analysis Protocol. 2. Every sample collected for analysis must be a composite sample. O. Reg. 508/21, s. 26 (3). (6) No person shall apply anaerobic digestion output that falls within the definition of agricultural source material to land on a farm unit on which an agricultural operation is carried out except in accordance with the rules in subsection (7), if, (a) a nutrient management plan is not required for the farm unit on which the agricultural operation is carried out; and (b) the anaerobic digestion output is received from a regulated mixed anaerobic digestion facility located on an agricultural operation located on a farm unit that received more than 10,000 cubic metres of off-farm anaerobic digestion materials or any material listed in Schedule 2B in the preceding 12-month period. O. Reg. 508/21, s. 26 (3). (7) The following are the rules for the purposes of subsection (6): 1. The application must occur at a rate such that the total plant available phosphate in all prescribed materials that are applied to the land per hectare during any consecutive five-year period does not exceed the greater of, i. the crop production requirements per hectare for that five-year period plus 85 kilograms of phosphate per hectare, and ii. the phosphate removed from the land per hectare in the harvested portion of the crop during that five-year period plus 390 kilograms of phosphate per hectare. 2. The application must occur at a rate such that the total plant available nitrogen in all prescribed materials that are applied to the land per hectare does not exceed 200 kilograms of plant available nitrogen per hectare in any 12-month period. O. Reg. 508/21, s. 26 (3). (8) For the purposes of paragraph 2 of subsection (7), the total plant available nitrogen is the sum resulting from the following calculation: (ammonia and ammonium nitrogen) + (nitrite and nitrate nitrogen) + (0.3) (organic nitrogen) where, organic nitrogen = Kjeldahl nitrogen – (ammonia and ammonium nitrogen). O. Reg. 508/21, s. 26 (3).