Interpretation
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(1) In this Regulation, “business day” means a day that is not a Saturday or a holiday within the meaning of section 87 of the Legislation Act, 2006; (“jour ouvrable”) “cleaning solution” means a cleaning solution, including a screen reclaiming solution, that contains organic solvent; (“solution de nettoyage”) “digital printing” means printing carried out for commercial purposes through the use of a digital printing press and any pre-press operations and post-press operations in respect of that printing; (“impression numérique”) “digital printing press” means, (a) a printing production assembly comprised of one or more electronically driven output devices that receive images in electronic files transferred directly from a computer and print the images directly onto the substrate using water based liquid inks, organic solvent based liquid inks or ultraviolet inks, and (b) any equipment associated with the printing production assembly mentioned in clause (a); (“presse numérique”) “exhaust stack” means, subject to subsection (2), a stack from which contaminants captured from the use of a printing press or from equipment used in a screen reclamation area are discharged into the air; (“cheminée d’évacuation”) “heatset web lithographic printing” means lithographic printing in which the substrate is fed to the printing production assembly by a continuous roll web and the ink is set with the application of heat; (“impression lithographique à bobines et à sécheurs”) “high VOC fountain solution” means a fountain solution that has a volatile organic compound concentration that is greater than or equal to five per cent by weight; (“solution de mouillage à forte concentration en COV”) “high VOC ink” means an ink that has a volatile organic compound concentration that is greater than or equal to three per cent by weight; (“encre à forte concentration en COV”) “lithographic printing” means, subject to subsection (3), printing carried out for commercial purposes through the use of a lithographic printing press and any pre-press operations and post-press operations in respect of that printing; (“impression lithographique”) “lithographic printing materials” means inks, reducers, coatings, adhesives, cleaning solutions and fountain solutions; (“produits de lithographie”) “lithographic printing press” means, (a) a printing production assembly comprised of, (i) one or more inking systems and fountain solution dampening systems, (ii) a planographic printing plate roll, and (iii) an intermediate roll that receives images transferred from the planographic printing plate roll before the images are transferred onto the substrate, and (b) any equipment associated with the printing production assembly mentioned in clause (a), including ovens, dryers, chillers and equipment used in a flashoff area; (“presse lithographique”) “low VOC fountain solution” means a fountain solution that has a volatile organic compound concentration that is less than five percent by weight; (“solution de mouillage à faible concentration en COV”) “low VOC ink” means an ink that has a volatile organic compound concentration that is less than three per cent by weight; (“encre à faible concentration en COV”) “NAICS” means the North American Industry Classification System maintained for Canada by Statistics Canada, as amended or revised from time to time; (“SCIAN”) “newspaper lithographic printing” means lithographic printing in which the ink used is designed to print on newsprint and is set without the application of heat; (“impression lithographique sur papier journal”) “Niagara Escarpment Planning Area” has the same meaning as in the Niagara Escarpment Planning and Development Act; (“zone de planification de l’escarpement du Niagara”) “noise generating equipment unit” means a wet cooling tower, an air cooled condenser, a cyclone dust collector, a paper waste compactor or a blower for a vacuum system; (“équipement générant du bruit”) “noise receptor” means a permanent or seasonal residence, hotel, motel, long-term care home, retirement home, hospital, campground, child care facility, educational facility or place of worship and includes a vacant lot that has been zoned to permit such a building or campground; (“récepteur de bruit”) “non-heatset web lithographic printing” means lithographic printing, in which, (a) the substrate is fed to the printing production assembly by a continuous roll web, (b) the ink used is not designed to print on newsprint, and (c) the ink is set without the application of heat; (“impression lithographique à bobines sans sécheurs”) “organic solvent based liquid ink” means ink that is not an ultraviolet ink and that, according to the specifications of the manufacturer of the ink, has a water content that is less than 60 per cent by weight; (“encre liquide à base de solvant organique”) “post-press operations” means, (a) any operations engaged in at a printing facility to create a final product from printed materials, and (b) any operations engaged in at a printing facility to process or temporarily store waste generated from printing or from the operations described in clause (a); (“opérations de finition”) “pre-press operations” means, (a) any operations engaged in at a printing facility to prepare the equipment used in printing, and (b) any operations engaged in at a printing facility to process or temporarily store waste generated from the operations described in clause (a); (“opérations prépresse”) “printing facility” means a facility at which a person engages in a printing process; (“imprimerie”) “printing process” means lithographic printing, screen printing or digital printing or any combination of lithographic printing, screen printing and digital printing; (“procédé d’impression”) “property boundary” means, (a) in respect of a noise receptor, the boundary of the property on which the noise receptor is situated, and (b) in respect of a printing facility, the boundary of the property on which the printing facility is situated; (“limite de propriété”) “screen printing” means printing carried out for commercial purposes through the use of a screen printing press and any pre-press operations and post-press operations in respect of that printing; (“impression sérigraphique”) “screen printing materials” means, subject to subsection (4), reducers, coatings, adhesives, cleaning solutions, and inks; (“produits de sérigraphie”) “screen printing press” means, (a) a printing production assembly comprised of, (i) one or more inking systems, and (ii) a stencilled screen with unblocked areas through which ink is squeezed to transfer an image onto the substrate, and (b) any equipment associated with the printing production assembly described in clause (a), including ovens, dryers, conveyors and equipment used in a flashoff area; (“presse sérigraphique”) “sewage works” has the same meaning as in the Ontario Water Resources Act; (“station d’épuration des eaux d’égout”) “sheet-fed lithographic printing” means lithographic printing in which individual sheets of substrate are fed to the printing production assembly sequentially but does not include newspaper lithographic printing; (“impression lithographique sur presse à feuilles”) “standby power system” has the same meaning as in Ontario Regulation 524/98 (Environmental Compliance Approvals — Exemptions from Section 9 of the Act) made under the Act; (“système d’alimentation électrique d’appoint”) “waste management system” has the same meaning as in Part V of the Act; (“système de gestion des déchets”) “water based liquid ink” means ink that is not an ultraviolet ink and that, according to the specifications of the manufacturer of the ink, has a water content that is equal to or greater than 60 per cent by weight. (“encre liquide à base d’eau”) O. Reg. 349/12, s. 1 (1); O. Reg. 15/17, s. 1. (2) For the purposes of this Regulation, the following stacks are not exhaust stacks: 1. A stack that is used only for general ventilation of indoor air out of a building. 2. A stack that is associated with a noise generating equipment unit. O. Reg. 349/12, s. 1 (2). (3) For the purposes of this Regulation, lithographic printing includes only the following types of lithographic printing: 1. Heatset web lithographic printing. 2. Newspaper lithographic printing. 3. Non-heatset web lithographic printing. 4. Sheet-fed lithographic printing. O. Reg. 349/12, s. 1 (3). (4) For the purposes of this Regulation, when determining the amount of screen printing materials used, the following shall be excluded: 1. Ultraviolet inks. 2. Electron beam inks. 3. Plastisol inks. O. Reg. 349/12, s. 1 (4). (5) For the purposes of this Regulation, two properties are adjacent to each other if the boundary of one property touches or, were it not for an intervening highway, road allowance, railway line, railway allowance or utility corridor, would touch the boundary of the other property. O. Reg. 349/12, s. 1 (5).