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Examples of Draft Siting requirements

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Siting – Core Requirement 5.3Core Requirement 5.3 describes siting requirements that proposed aggregate operations must meet to be certified.•‘Siting’ relates to the rules determining whether CSC will certify proposed aggregate operations that are within designated natural heritage areas or features and, if certification is allowed, what additional measures, if any, should be required of the applicant.•The siting requirements of the standards designate specific natural heritage features or values as either:

• Certifiable – Features/areas that can be disturbed;• Non-Certifiable (NCA) – Features/areas that cannot be

disturbed; or• Certifiable Subject to Additional Requirements

(CSAR) – Features/areas that can be disturbed if additional requirements are met. Additional restrictions can include:• Implementing a peer reviewed biodiversity plan• Implementing an enhanced biodiversity plan in sensitive

areas• Meeting requirements related to rehabilitation (e.g.

return to a similar state)• Meeting regulatory conditions/approvals

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Principle 5: Biodiversity plan requirements for CSC Candidate sites

Candidate sites whose licensed area contains, or is immediately adjacent to, key natural features that are designated “CSAR – Requiring a Biodiversity Plan” under the CSC Siting Requirements must develop, implement and periodically have audited a biodiversity plan

The main goals of a biodiversity plan are to: • maintain or enhance the biodiversity of the subject

site and surrounding area;• maintain or enhance connectivity between key natural

heritage features and key hydrologic features;• protect, improve or restore water resources systems.

Biodiversity plans are developed following a mitigation hierarchy of:

1. Avoid/Protect 2. Minimize3. Restore4. Offset

Cornerstone Standards Council

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Cornerstone Standards CouncilPrinciple 5: Biodiversity plan requirements for CSC Candidate sites

Where biodiversity values cannot be protected or impacts minimized, values are offset in keeping with the following:

• No net loss of biodiversity at any particular point in time

• Establishment of offsets occurs prior to disruption of the feature being impacted

• Offsets are established iteratively based on the total area of biodiversity values to be disturbed in the subsequent 10 years

The amount of land to be offset is based on either:A)For existing forest cover at a sub-watershed scale of:

(i) > 50%: compensating lands will be at 1:1 ratio(ii) 40 – 50%: compensating lands will be at 1:1.5 ratio(iii) 30 – 40%: compensating lands will be at 1:2 ratio(iv) < 30%: compensating lands will be at 1:3 ratio

orB)A scientifically supported alternative approach to the above that provides a stronger conservation rationale

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License Area: 100 Acres•NCA features: 20 Acres•CSAR features: 0 Acres

Extraction area: 80 Acres•NCA features plus buffer undisturbed•Biodiversity plan required before extraction begins

Rehabilitation•Progressive rehabilitation to biodiversity plan •Final rehabilitation completed within 2 years

Progressive Rehabilitation

Biodiversity plan example 1: NCA features on site

7.5 Acres(NCA PSW) + 2.5

Acres buffer

7.5 Acres(NCA PSW) + 2.5

Acres buffer

7.5 Acres (NCA Alvar) + 2.5 Acres

buffer

7.5 Acres (NCA Alvar) + 2.5 Acres

buffer

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License Area: 100 Acres•NCA features: 0 Acres•CSAR features: 5 Acres•Compensating lands required for CSAR feature (1:1 = 5 Acres)•Efforts to place offset (5 acres) in protective easement

Extraction area: 100 Acres•Biodiversity plan required

Rehabilitation•Progressive rehabilitation to biodiversity plan •Final rehabilitation completed within 2 years

Progressive Rehabilitation

5 AcresCSAR -

Non-PSW wetland

5 AcresCSAR -

Non-PSW wetland

Biodiversity plan example 2: CSAR features on site – subwatershed forest cover >50% (offset 1:1)

5 Acre Offset5 Acre Offset

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License Area: 100 Acres•NCA features: 0 Acres•CSAR features: 5 Acres•Compensating lands required for CSAR feature (1:3 = 15 Acres)•Efforts to place offset (15 acres) in protective easement

Extraction area: 100 Acres•Biodiversity plan required

Rehabilitation•Progressive rehabilitation to biodiversity plan •Final rehabilitation completed within 2 years

Progressive Rehabilitation

5 AcresCSAR -

Non-PSW wetland

5 AcresCSAR -

Non-PSW wetland

Biodiversity plan example 3: CSAR features on site – subwatershed forest cover <30% (offset 1:3)

15 Acre Offset15 Acre Offset

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CR 5.3 – Request for specific input on the GB NHSCR 5.3 includes a request for specific input on siting within Natural Heritage Systems , including Ontario’s Greenbelt Natural Heritage System (GB NHS).

This has been one of the most challenging issues for CSC and a a diversity of views exists the CSC Board regarding this issue. Views range from those who feel that the GB NHS should be treated the same as other natural heritage system under CR 5.3, to those who feel that any proposed aggregate operations in the GB NHS should be ineligible for certification.

To inform ongoing discussions CSC is requesting input on the following questions:

1. Should the GB NHS be treated differently than other natural heritage systems in Ontario? If so, in what way and why?

2. Should CSC consider declaring an interim moratorium on the certification of proposed operations in the Greenbelt Natural Heritage System and re-open the discussion following the government’s policy review?

3. If CSC does proceed with allowing certification of proposed operations within GB NHS, what is your reaction to the “enhanced biodiversity” approach outlined in Appendix 9?

4. Should this “enhanced biodiversity” approach be applied to Natural Heritage Systems across the province?

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Cornerstone Standards CouncilUnderstanding the “enhanced biodiversity” approach

•Extraction is exclusively within areas absent of Natural Heritage Features (e.g. woodlands, wetlands)•Sites must maintain or improve connectivity between key natural heritage features and hydrologic features •Compensating lands at a ratio of 1:2 are progressively established in advance of operations•Efforts are made to place the lands containing the improved habitat under some form of protection (lands rehabilitated to agricultural use are exempted from this) or public ownership•The maximum disturbed area for the site, at any one time, is:

• Limited to 33% for pits >100ha• Limited to 50% for quarries >100ha

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License Area: 100 Acres

NCA features + buffers: O AcresCSAR features: 100 Acres (GB NHS)

Offset: 200 Acres offsite

Total extraction area: 100 AcresBioD plan: Required

Rehab: Progressive rehabilitation includes a BioD plan seeking to improve biodiversity

300 Acres - Public ownership or easement

Rehab as per CR 5.6

Enhanced Biodiversity approach example 1: Located within the GB NHS with no NCA features onsite

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License Area: 100 Acres

NCA features + buffers: 20 AcresCSAR features: 0 Acres

Total extraction area: 80 AcresOffset: 80 Acres @ 1:2 ratio = 160 Acres

Progressive rehabilitation includes Biodiversity Plan approach

260 Acres - Public ownership or easement

7.5 Acres + 2.5 BufferNCA – Sig. Woods

5 Acres + 5 BufferNCA – PSW

Offset160 Acres(in advance of extraction)

Progressive Rehab + BioD

Plan

Public ownership or protective easement

Enhanced Biodiversity approach example 2: Located within the GB NHS with NCA features onsite

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Cornerstone Standards CouncilContact Information

Visit us online at www.cornerstonestandards.ca

Lorne Johnson, Executive Director, [email protected]

Maia Becker, Implementation Lead,[email protected]

Nic Schulz, Director of Outreach, [email protected]