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Today we released a new edition of Directive 001: Requirements for Site-Specific Liability Assessment. The changes we’ve made are as follows:
- removed irrelevant or duplicative information, updated the references to include up-to-date regulatory requirements, and brought the directive up to AER formatting standards (this included moving the forms out of the directive for future posting on the directive’s landing page)
- revised the definition of liability assessment to emphasize the obligations of licensees to provide care and custody from shut-down of operations through suspension, abandonment, remediation, and reclamation of sites
- modified the scope of the directive to include sites regulated under the Geothermal Resource Development Rules and Brine-Hosted Mineral Resource Development Rules
- integrated the requirements that were in appendix 2 into the main body to remove duplication and identify the requirements that are expected in a comprehensive SSLA
- removed the requirement to submit the On-Site Reclamation and Remediation Details form and the Facility Summary form
A draft of the directive was released for public feedback on January 9, 2023 (see Bulletin 2023-01). A summary of the feedback, including our responses, is available on the directive’s webpage. The revised edition of Directive 001 is available on our website on the Directives webpage. If you have any questions, contact our Customer Contact Centre by phone at 1-855-297-8311 or by email at inquiries@aer.ca.
