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1. (1) In this Regulation, “blowdown water” means water that is discharged from a recirculating cooling water system or a boiler system for the purpose of controlling the level of water in the system or for the purpose of discharging from the system materials contained in the system the further build-up of which would impair the operation of the system; “cooling water effluent” means water and associated material that is used in an industrial process for the purpose of removing heat and that has not, by design, come into contact with process materials, but does not include blowdown water; “cooling water effluent monitoring stream” means a cooling water effluent stream on which a sampling point is established under section 8; “cooling water effluent sampling point” means a sampling point established on a cooling water effluent stream under section 8; “Director”, in relation to obligations of a discharger, means a Director appointed under section 5 of the Act and responsible for the region in which the discharger’s plant is located and includes an alternate named by the Director; “discharger” means an owner or person in occupation or having the charge, management or control of a plant to which this Regulation applies; “industrial mineral” means graphite, gypsum, quartzite, salt, talc, nepheline syenite, trap rock, limestone, dolomite, sandstone or any combination thereof and includes portland clinker, cement, lime and magnesium; “pick-up”, in relation to a sample, means pick-up for the purpose of storage, including storage within an automatic sampling device, and transportation to and analysis at a laboratory; “plant” means an industrial facility and the developed property, waste disposal sites and waste water treatment facilities associated with it; “process change” means a change in equipment, production processes, process materials or treatment processes; “process effluent” means, (a) effluent that, by design, has come into contact with process materials other than process materials stored in a materials storage site, including but not limited to a rock salts storage site, a waste rock storage site or a slag storage site, (b) blowdown water, (c) effluent that results from cleaning or maintenance operations at a plant during a period when all or part of the plant is shut down, and (d) any effluent described in clauses (a) to (c) combined with cooling water effluent or storm water effluent but does not include salt evaporator effluent; “process effluent monitoring stream” means a process effluent stream on which a sampling point is established under section 8; “process effluent sampling point” means a sampling point established on a process effluent stream under section 8; “process materials”, in relation to a discharger’s plant, means raw materials for use in an industrial process at the plant, manufacturing intermediates produced at the plant, or products or by-products of an industrial process at the plant, but does not include chemicals added to cooling water for the purpose of controlling organisms, fouling and corrosion; “quarter” means all or part of a period of three consecutive months beginning on the first day of January, April, July or October; “salt” means sodium chloride or halite; “salt evaporator effluent” means water and associated material that is discharged from a salt evaporator plant; “salt evaporator effluent monitoring stream” means a salt evaporator effluent stream on which a sampling point is established under section 8; “salt evaporator effluent sampling point” means a sampling point established on a salt evaporator effluent stream under section 8; “semi-annual period” means all or part of a period of six months beginning on the first day of January or July; “storm water effluent” means run-off from a storm event or thaw that is not used in any industrial process; “wastewater treatment facility” means a device or structure that is used to improve the quality of wastewater.  O. Reg. 561/94, s. 1 (1); O. Reg. 170/96, s. 1. (2) For greater certainty, this Regulation applies both to effluent streams that discharge continuously and to effluent streams that discharge intermittently. (3) An obligation on a discharger to do a thing under this Regulation is discharged if another person has done it on the discharger’s behalf.  O. Reg. 561/94, s. 1 (2, 3). Purpose

2. The purpose of this Regulation is to monitor and control the quality of effluent discharged from the plants listed in Schedule 1.  O. Reg. 561/94, s. 2. Application

3. (1) This Regulation applies only with respect to the plants listed in Schedule 1.  O. Reg. 561/94, s. 3 (1). (2) This Regulation does not apply with respect to the discharge of effluent to a municipal sanitary sewer.  O. Reg. 561/94, s. 3 (2); O. Reg. 170/96, s. 2. Application

4. For greater certainty, subject to subsection 186 (4) of the Act, the requirements of this Regulation are in addition to and independent of requirements in an approval, order, direction or other instrument issued under any Act.  O. Reg. 170/96, s. 3. Non-application of General Effluent Monitoring Regulation

5. This Regulation is not a Sectoral Effluent Monitoring Regulation within the meaning of Ontario Regulation 695/88.  O. Reg. 561/94, s. 5. By-passes

6. Beginning on August 26, 1997, a discharger shall not permit effluent that would ordinarily flow past a sampling point established under this Regulation to be discharged from the discharger’s plant without flowing past that sampling point, regardless of whether it would be convenient to do so because of a maintenance operation, a breakdown in equipment or any scheduled or unscheduled event.  O. Reg. 170/96, s. 4. Sampling and Analytical Procedures — General

7. (1) Subject to section 21, each discharger shall carry out the establishment of sampling point obligations of this Regulation and the sampling and analysis obligations of this Regulation, including quality control sampling and analysis obligations, in accordance with the procedures described in the Ministry of the Environment publication entitled “Protocol for the Sampling and Analysis of Industrial/Municipal Wastewater”, as amended from time to time.  O. Reg. 235/07, s. 1. (2) Each discharger shall maintain the sampling equipment used at the discharger’s plant for sampling required by this Regulation in a way that ensures that the samples collected at the plant under this Regulation accurately reflect the level of discharge of total suspended solids from the plant.  O. Reg. 561/94, s. 7 (2). PART II   SAMPLING POINTS Establishment and Elimination of Sampling Points