Provincial Standards

This article lists all of the documents associated with the Aggregate Resources 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.

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• AGGREGATE LICENCES (Private Land, Designated Areas)

  Provincial Standards of Ontario - Category 1 - Class A Pit Below Water

  Provincial Standards of Ontario - Category 2 - Class A Quarry Below Water

  Provincial Standards of Ontario - Category 3 - Class A Pit Above Water

  Provincial Standards of Ontario - Category 4 - Class A Quarry Above Water

  Provincial Standards of Ontario - Category 5 - Class B Pit Below Water

  Provincial Standards of Ontario - Category 6 - Class B Quarry Below Water

  Provincial Standards of Ontario - Category 7 - Class B Pit Above Water

  Provincial Standards of Ontario - Category 8 - Class B Quarry Above Water

• AGGREGATE PERMITS (Crown Land)

  Provincial Standards of Ontario - Category 9 - Pit Above Water

  Provincial Standards of Ontario - Category 10 - Pit Below Water

  Provincial Standards of Ontario - Category 11 - Quarry Above Water

  Provincial Standards of Ontario - Category 12 - Quarry Below Water

  Provincial Standards of Ontario - Category 13 - Aggregate Permit Extraction for Land Under Water

• FOREST INDUSTRY

  Provincial Standards of Ontario - Category 14 - Forest Industry

• WAYSIDE PERMITS

  Provincial Standards of Ontario - Category 15 - Wayside Permits for Public Authority Projects