Preparation and contents
 17. (1) A nutrient management strategy for an agricultural operation, (a) must be prepared by a person qualified to do so under Part X; (b) must comply with this Regulation, the Nutrient Management Protocol and the Sampling and Analysis Protocol; (b.1) must contain a contingency plan; (b.2) must include a declaration prepared in a form and manner specified by a Director that, (i) identifies the farm unit on which the operation to which the strategy applies is carried out, and (ii) states that the strategy is complete, that it includes an accurate description of the operation and that it has been completed in accordance with this Regulation, the Nutrient Management Protocol and the Sampling and Analysis Protocol; and (b.3) must contain an odour management plan where one is required by this Regulation; (c) must be signed by, (i) the owner of the operation or an authorized agent of the owner, and (ii) the person who prepared the strategy, who is also referred to in clause (a). O. Reg. 267/03, s. 17 (1); O. Reg. 447/03, s. 8; O. Reg. 511/05, s. 7 (1); O. Reg. 338/09, s. 20 (1-3); O. Reg. 284/12, s. 7 (2); O. Reg. 508/21, s. 5. (2) A nutrient management strategy for an agricultural operation must account for, (a) the maximum total quantity of prescribed materials that the person who owns or controls the operation reasonably believes will be generated in a single year by the operation; and (b) the maximum total quantity of prescribed materials that the person who owns or controls the operation reasonably believes will be received in a single year by the operation. O. Reg. 204/19, s. 3. (3) On application by the person responsible for preparing a nutrient management strategy or on receiving a registration of an agricultural operation to which a nutrient management strategy applies, a Director shall assign an operation identifier to the following, unless an operation identifier has already been assigned to the operation: 1. The agricultural operation to which the strategy applies. 2. The farm unit on which the agricultural operation to which the strategy applies is carried out. O. Reg. 267/03, s. 17 (3); O. Reg. 511/05, s. 7 (2); O. Reg. 338/09, s. 20 (5-7). (4) A nutrient management strategy for an agricultural operation that treats materials through mixed anaerobic digestion in a regulated mixed anaerobic digestion facility must describe how the requirements of this Regulation respecting mixed anaerobic digestion will be satisfied including, but not limited to, (a) describing procedures to be used at the operation to determine whether off-farm anaerobic digestion materials meet the requirements of this Regulation for treatment in mixed anaerobic digestion; (b) describing how any permanent nutrient storage facilities to be used for the storage of off-farm anaerobic digestion materials will satisfy the requirements of this Regulation; (c) describing how the regulated mixed anaerobic digestion facility will satisfy the requirements of this Regulation; (d) describing procedures to be used at the operation to manage anaerobic digestion output in accordance with the requirements of this Regulation. O. Reg. 394/07, s. 5. 18. Revoked: O. Reg. 204/19, s. 4.