The Minister's Requirement for Fees sets out
the fees that the MOE may charge for its review of Environmental
Compliance Approval (ECA) applications. These fees can run into the
thousands of dollars depending on what the MOE is asked to review.
For example, review of combustion equipment costs $400, review of
an effluent quality criteria assessment for sewage, industrial
wastewater or leachate treatment plans costs $6000 and, at the top
end, technical review of a site where hazardous or liquid waste
would be disposed of by landfilling costs $60,000.
There is one small exemption:
An applicant is exempted from these fees if they must amend
their approval to permit an action required by the Director.
Specifically, the fees do not apply "where an applicant
requests the Director to amend an environmental compliance approval
as a result of action that the applicant has been required to take
by the Director pursuant to a condition contained in the
approval."
