Transport Canada has posted on its website Amendment T – Provisions for Orphan Releases. This is a proposed regulation and has NOT been published in the Canada Gazette.
Amendment T outlines the compensation for implementing an ERAP at the request of the Minister. There are 4 sections that will be added:
- 7.10 Compensation for Authorization to Implement an Approved Emergency Response Assistance Plan (ERAP)
- 7.10.1 Compensation Limits
- 7.10.2 Claims for Compensation
- 7.11 Emergency Response Assistance Plan for Emergency Response Contractors
Section 7.10 outlines what expenses will be covered, such as:
- death, disability or injury to the plan holder or its employees
- overhead costs for the plan response
- cost of employees or contractors
- use of tools, vehicles, hoses, pumps, generators, etc.
- travel expenses – meals, accommodation, fuel, flights, etc.
- rental fees
- repair costs for equipment damaged during the response
- cost of defending any legal action
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The following proposed amendments to the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations were presented by J.S. Bergeron, Regional Manager, TC at the Canadian Association of Chemical Distributors (CACD) semi-annual meeting recently:
- Part 7 Emergency Response Assistance Plan: now with Justice, expect to see in Gazette I before year end,
- Titled "Back to the Future": returning to pre-Amendment 6 for Section 4.15 Dangerous Goods Safety Marks on a Large Means of Containment: Placards and UN Numbers: correcting safety mark errors, etc. Consultation will be the end of November, early December,
- Clean up of the standards; discussion centred on CGSB-43.147 Construction, Modification, Qualification, Maintenance, and Selection and Use of Means of Containment for the Handling, Offering for Transport, or Transporting of Dangerous Goods by Rail, & CGSB-43.126 Remanufacturing and Reconditioning of Drums Used for the Transportation of Dangerous Goods; adoption of rail standards; end of year?
- Adopt the 15th Edition of the UN Model Regulations; harmonization of TIH’s (toxic inhalation hazards); early next year
- Changes to Part 12 Air re: domestic provisions and isolated areas; there is an internal discussion at Transport Canada going on now.
Keep informed by checking our website, the Canada Gazette website: http://canadagazette.gc.ca/index-e.html, or Transport Canada’s website: www.tc.gc.ca/tdg/menu.htm.
