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Newfoundland and Labrador
Regulation 2016
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR REGULATION 60/16
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 60/16
Water
Use Charges Regulations
under the
Water Resources Act
(O.C. 2016-207)
(Filed September 29, 2016)
Under the authority of sections 29 and 64
of the Water Resources Act, the Lieutenant-Governor
in Council makes the following regulations.
Dated at St.
John's, September 28, 2016.
Bernard M. Coffey, Q.C.
Clerk of the Executive Council
REGULATIONS
Analysis
1.
Short title
2.
Definition
3.
Water use charges
4.
Commencement
Schedule
Short title
1. These
regulations may be cited as the Water Use
Charges Regulations.
Definition
2. In
these regulations, "water use licence" means a licence to divert or
use water for commercial or industrial purposes issued under the Water Resources Act.
Water use charges
3. (1) The
annual water use charges for a water use licence are prescribed in the Schedule.
(2) On January 1 of each year during the term of a
water use licence the annual charges prescribed in the Schedule shall be adjusted
based on the percentage change, rounded to 2 decimal places, in relation to the
preceding year, in the All-items Consumer Price Index for Canada as published under the Statistics Act (Canada).
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the All-items
Consumer Price Index for Canada
for a year is the annual average calculated from the monthly indexes for the 12
month period ending September 30 of the preceding year.
Commencement
4. These regulations come into force on October 1,
2016.
Schedule
Annual
Water Use Charges for Commercial and Industrial Purposes
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Water
Use Purpose
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Annual Water Use Charges
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Commercial Purposes
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Marine aquaculture
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$1,000
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Freshwater aquaculture with cages or gear
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$10,000
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Commercial purpose (Except water bottling
and/or production of other finished water based products)
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$5 per 1,000 m3 licensed and used plus $0.50 per 1,000 m3 licensed but not used
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Water bottling and/or production of other
water based finished products from surface and groundwater sources
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$500 per 1,000 m3 licensed and used plus $50 per 1,000 m3 licensed but not used
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Minimum annual water use charge for water
bottling and/or production of other water based finished products from
surface and groundwater sources
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$2,500
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Water bottling and/or production of other
water based finished products from water or ice harvested from icebergs
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$1,000 per 1,000 m3 licensed and used plus $100 per 1,000 m3 licensed but not used
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Minimum annual water use charge for water
bottling and/or production of other water based finished products from water
or ice harvested from icebergs
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$5,000
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Minimum annual water use charge for any other
commercial purpose
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$500
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Industrial Purposes
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Mineral Exploration
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$1,000
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Industrial (Except the removal or displacement
of water from a body of water)
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$10 per 1,000 m3 licensed and used plus $1.00 per 1,000 m3 licensed but not used
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Industrial for
the removal or displacement of water from a body of water by accumulated or
deposited tailing effluent and material
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$200 per 1,000 m3 of water removed or
displaced
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Minimum annual water use charge for any other
industrial purpose
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$1,000
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