Provincial Standards

These Standards have been developed to support the Aggregate Resources Act as amended by
Bill 52, the Aggregate and Petroleum Resources Statute Law Amendment Act, 1996.

There are three main headings:
1) Licences - subdivided into eight categories with respect to Class ‘A’.
Class ‘A’ licence is to remove more than 20,000 tonnes of aggregate
annually and a Class ‘B’ is to remove 20,000 tonnes or less of
aggregate annually;

2) Aggregate permits - subdivided into six categories; and

3) Wayside Permits - one category.

These categories were developed to provide more concise, user friendly and understandable
minimum requirements for the delivery of the Aggregate Resources Act.

Each category has a template of six major topics and all categories are developed to be proponent driven. The proponent will refer to the appropriate categories depending on the type of undertaking being contemplated. The reason for 15 categories is to reflect the numerous types of applications that can be applied for. In order to accomplish an easy-to-follow format, the standards and categories are repetitive in some cases or have slight modifications between categories based on whether the application is for a pit or quarry, and whether extraction will occur above or below the water table.