(a.1) prescribing agricultural activities for the purposes of paragraph (e) or (h) in the definition “alteration”;

(b) prescribing any matter to be waste;

(c) respecting the release, handling, disposal or removal of any class of, or any, contaminants, wastes, gases, liquids or solids into, from or upon water;

(d) regulating, controlling, prohibiting, directing or providing for the withdrawal, use, storage and handling of water;

(e) providing for the appeal of an order, designation or decision made under this Act or the regulations;

(f) respecting the manner of appeal from orders, designations or decisions made under this Act or the regulations;

(g) respecting the responsibility for and the payment and recovery of any costs incurred by the Minister or any person, including the costs incurred for all persons, materials and equipment employed and by repairing any damage done, to operate, rectify, control, reduce, eliminate, remove, modify, clean up, rehabilitate, remedy or investigate any matter or thing coming within this Act or the regulations;

(h) respecting the carriage, conduct and settlement of claims and actions relating to matters coming within this Act and the regulations;

(i) respecting the procedure for the collection of costs incurred by the Minister while acting under this Act or the regulations, including the sharing of proceeds where the amount available or the amount collected is not sufficient to satisfy all claims;

(j) regulating, controlling, prescribing and providing for methods, standards or tests for determining the amount, concentration, level or presence of any contaminant or waste or any class of contaminant or waste in or upon water;

(k) respecting the establishment of a water classification system;

(k.1) classifying all or any portion of the water of a watercourse;

(k.2) excluding all or any portion of the water of a watercourse from classification;

(k.3) providing the Minister with the discretion to determine the suitability of classification of the water of a watercourse;

(k.4) respecting the criteria or standards that a class of water is to meet;

(k.5) providing the Minister with the discretion to determine whether the water of a watercourse meets the criteria or standards of a particular class before it is classified;

(k.6) providing that the water of a watercourse may be classified into a class where the water is intended by the Minister to meet or eventually meet the standards or criteria applicable to the class of water;

(k.7) prohibiting any activity that might impair the quality or quantity of the water of a watercourse that is classified;

(k.8) respecting procedures, consultations or evaluations that are to be followed or undertaken before the water of a watercourse may be classified or excluded from a classification;

(k.81) respecting conditions to be satisfied before the water of a watercourse is classified;

(k.82) imposing restrictions on the classification of the water of a watercourse;

(k.83) establishing or requiring the Minister to establish a review panel to provide advice to the Minister on the classification of the water of a watercourse;

(k.84) prescribing the composition of a review panel, terms of office of members of the panel, the election or appointment of officers, the duties and responsibilities of the panel, the reimbursement of expenses of and the payments of an allowance to members of the panel when carrying out their duties and any other matters relating to the operation of a panel;

(l) respecting insurance coverage or the posting of security as a condition of obtaining, continuing to hold, having renewed, having reinstated or transferring a registration, licence, permit or approval;

(l.1) respecting the matters in relation to which the Potable Water Advisory Committee makes recommendations under section 13.1;

(m) respecting the designation of all or any portion of a watershed, aquifer or ground water recharge area as a protected area and the prohibition of, control of, limitation of, allocation of or imposition of terms, conditions or standards respecting any activity, thing or water or land use within the area so designated, for the purpose of protecting the quality or quantity of the water in the protected area;

(n) regulating, controlling, prohibiting, directing or providing for the location, construction, testing, alteration, modification, use, operation, repairing, monitoring, inspection, discharge or removal of sources of contaminant, dangers of pollution, waterworks, hydro-electric projects or control dams;

(o) regulating, controlling, prohibiting, directing or providing for river diversions, drainage diversions or alterations or diversions of all or part of a watercourse or wetland or the water flowing in a watercourse or wetland;

(p) regulating, controlling or prohibiting the erection or placing of structures of any kind on the ice of a body of water, including providing for the removal of structures erected or placed contrary to the regulations;

(q) regulating, controlling, prohibiting, directing or providing for the location, construction, testing, alteration, modification, operation, repairing, inspection or removal of structures or things that lie within or cross or that may lie within or cross a watercourse or wetland;

(r) designating or authorizing the Minister to designate an area subject to flooding as a flood hazard area and prohibiting, restricting or limiting or authorizing the Minister to prohibit, restrict or limit any construction or development within or any alteration to the area so designated that would increase the risk or magnitude of flooding or would in any way alter or divert the flow of water within the area at any time;

(s) establishing an advisory board in relation to

(t) respecting the location, spacing, construction, testing, alteration, reconditioning, repairing, sealing, capping and abandoning of wells and the materials, methods and equipment used in constructing, testing, altering, reconditioning, repairing, sealing or capping wells;

(u) respecting the content of, timing of, publishing of, service of or any other matter relating to any notice, order or other document that is required to be given or served under this Act or the regulations;

(v) establishing the duties of the Land and Water Advisory Committee;

(w) respecting the issue, transfer, suspension, cancellation, renewal and reinstatement of registrations, licences, permits and approvals;

(w.1) respecting the exemption of persons or classes of persons from the requirement to obtain a permit under this Act and respecting the waiver for persons or classes of persons of the requirement to obtain a permit under this Act;

(x) establishing or authorizing the Minister to impose terms and conditions upon which registrations, licences, permits and approvals may be refused, issued, transferred, held, suspended, cancelled, renewed and reinstated;

(y) establishing fees and the manner of payment of fees to be paid upon the application for, and upon the issuance, transfer, renewal and reinstatement of, registrations, licences, permits and approvals;

(z) establishing fees, rentals and charges and the manner of payment of fees, rentals and charges to be paid under this Act and the regulations;

(z.1) respecting forms for the purposes of this Act and the regulations;

(aa) respecting the duties and powers of inspectors and analysts, the taking of samples and the analysis of substances for the purposes of this Act and the regulations;

(bb) respecting the records to be kept, the returns to be made and the information to be given by an owner or operator, or both, of a source of any class of, or any, contaminant, waterworks, well, public water supply system or water supply system or by any person or class of person who handles, releases, removes or disposes of any class of, or any, contaminant, waste, gas, liquid or solid into, from or upon water;

(cc) respecting the confidentiality of documents and other information filed or submitted under this Act and the regulations, the period during which the documents and information are to be confidential and the persons to whom the documents and information may be disclosed; and

(dd) defining public water supply system for the purposes of this Act and the regulations.

(a.1) prescribing agricultural activities for the purposes of paragraph (e) or (h) in the definition “alteration”;

(b) prescribing any matter to be waste;

(c) respecting the release, handling, disposal or removal of any class of, or any, contaminants, wastes, gases, liquids or solids into, from or upon water;

(d) regulating, controlling, prohibiting, directing or providing for the withdrawal, use, storage and handling of water;

(e) providing for the appeal of an order, designation or decision made under this Act or the regulations;

(f) respecting the manner of appeal from orders, designations or decisions made under this Act or the regulations;

(g) respecting the responsibility for and the payment and recovery of any costs incurred by the Minister or any person, including the costs incurred for all persons, materials and equipment employed and by repairing any damage done, to operate, rectify, control, reduce, eliminate, remove, modify, clean up, rehabilitate, remedy or investigate any matter or thing coming within this Act or the regulations;

(h) respecting the carriage, conduct and settlement of claims and actions relating to matters coming within this Act and the regulations;

(i) respecting the procedure for the collection of costs incurred by the Minister while acting under this Act or the regulations, including the sharing of proceeds where the amount available or the amount collected is not sufficient to satisfy all claims;

(j) regulating, controlling, prescribing and providing for methods, standards or tests for determining the amount, concentration, level or presence of any contaminant or waste or any class of contaminant or waste in or upon water;

(k) respecting the establishment of a water classification system;

(k.1) classifying all or any portion of the water of a watercourse;

(k.2) excluding all or any portion of the water of a watercourse from classification;

(k.3) providing the Minister with the discretion to determine the suitability of classification of the water of a watercourse;

(k.4) respecting the criteria or standards that a class of water is to meet;

(k.5) providing the Minister with the discretion to determine whether the water of a watercourse meets the criteria or standards of a particular class before it is classified;

(k.6) providing that the water of a watercourse may be classified into a class where the water is intended by the Minister to meet or eventually meet the standards or criteria applicable to the class of water;

(k.7) prohibiting any activity that might impair the quality or quantity of the water of a watercourse that is classified;

(k.8) respecting procedures, consultations or evaluations that are to be followed or undertaken before the water of a watercourse may be classified or excluded from a classification;

(k.81) respecting conditions to be satisfied before the water of a watercourse is classified;

(k.82) imposing restrictions on the classification of the water of a watercourse;

(k.83) establishing or requiring the Minister to establish a review panel to provide advice to the Minister on the classification of the water of a watercourse;

(k.84) prescribing the composition of a review panel, terms of office of members of the panel, the election or appointment of officers, the duties and responsibilities of the panel, the reimbursement of expenses of and the payments of an allowance to members of the panel when carrying out their duties and any other matters relating to the operation of a panel;

(l) respecting insurance coverage or the posting of security as a condition of obtaining, continuing to hold, having renewed, having reinstated or transferring a registration, licence, permit or approval;

(l.1) respecting the matters in relation to which the Potable Water Advisory Committee makes recommendations under section 13.1;

(m) respecting the designation of all or any portion of a watershed, aquifer or ground water recharge area as a protected area and the prohibition of, control of, limitation of, allocation of or imposition of terms, conditions or standards respecting any activity, thing or water or land use within the area so designated, for the purpose of protecting the quality or quantity of the water in the protected area;

(n) regulating, controlling, prohibiting, directing or providing for the location, construction, testing, alteration, modification, use, operation, repairing, monitoring, inspection, discharge or removal of sources of contaminant, dangers of pollution, waterworks, hydro-electric projects or control dams;

(o) regulating, controlling, prohibiting, directing or providing for river diversions, drainage diversions or alterations or diversions of all or part of a watercourse or wetland or the water flowing in a watercourse or wetland;

(p) regulating, controlling or prohibiting the erection or placing of structures of any kind on the ice of a body of water, including providing for the removal of structures erected or placed contrary to the regulations;

(q) regulating, controlling, prohibiting, directing or providing for the location, construction, testing, alteration, modification, operation, repairing, inspection or removal of structures or things that lie within or cross or that may lie within or cross a watercourse or wetland;

(r) designating or authorizing the Minister to designate an area subject to flooding as a flood hazard area and prohibiting, restricting or limiting or authorizing the Minister to prohibit, restrict or limit any construction or development within or any alteration to the area so designated that would increase the risk or magnitude of flooding or would in any way alter or divert the flow of water within the area at any time;

(s) establishing an advisory board in relation to

(t) respecting the location, spacing, construction, testing, alteration, reconditioning, repairing, sealing, capping and abandoning of wells and the materials, methods and equipment used in constructing, testing, altering, reconditioning, repairing, sealing or capping wells;

(u) respecting the content of, timing of, publishing of, service of or any other matter relating to any notice, order or other document that is required to be given or served under this Act or the regulations;

(v) establishing the duties of the Land and Water Advisory Committee;

(w) respecting the issue, transfer, suspension, cancellation, renewal and reinstatement of registrations, licences, permits and approvals;

(w.1) respecting the exemption of persons or classes of persons from the requirement to obtain a permit under this Act and respecting the waiver for persons or classes of persons of the requirement to obtain a permit under this Act;

(x) establishing or authorizing the Minister to impose terms and conditions upon which registrations, licences, permits and approvals may be refused, issued, transferred, held, suspended, cancelled, renewed and reinstated;

(y) establishing fees and the manner of payment of fees to be paid upon the application for, and upon the issuance, transfer, renewal and reinstatement of, registrations, licences, permits and approvals;

(z) establishing fees, rentals and charges and the manner of payment of fees, rentals and charges to be paid under this Act and the regulations;

(z.1) respecting forms for the purposes of this Act and the regulations;

(aa) respecting the duties and powers of inspectors and analysts, the taking of samples and the analysis of substances for the purposes of this Act and the regulations;

(bb) respecting the records to be kept, the returns to be made and the information to be given by an owner or operator, or both, of a source of any class of, or any, contaminant, waterworks, well, public water supply system or water supply system or by any person or class of person who handles, releases, removes or disposes of any class of, or any, contaminant, waste, gas, liquid or solid into, from or upon water;

(cc) respecting the confidentiality of documents and other information filed or submitted under this Act and the regulations, the period during which the documents and information are to be confidential and the persons to whom the documents and information may be disclosed; and

(dd) defining public water supply system for the purposes of this Act and the regulations.

(a.1) prescribing agricultural activities for the purposes of paragraph (e) or (h) in the definition “alteration”;

(b) prescribing any matter to be waste;

(c) respecting the release, handling, disposal or removal of any class of, or any, contaminants, wastes, gases, liquids or solids into, from or upon water;

(d) regulating, controlling, prohibiting, directing or providing for the withdrawal, use, storage and handling of water;

(e) providing for the appeal of an order, designation or decision made under this Act or the regulations;

(f) respecting the manner of appeal from orders, designations or decisions made under this Act or the regulations;

(g) respecting the responsibility for and the payment and recovery of any cost, expense, loss, damages or charge incurred by the Minister or any person, including the cost, expense, loss, damages or charge incurred by all persons, materials and equipment employed and by repairing any damage done, to operate, rectify, control, reduce, eliminate, remove, modify, clean up, rehabilitate, remedy or investigate any matter or thing coming within this Act or the regulations;

(h) respecting the carriage, conduct and settlement of claims and actions relating to matters coming within this Act and the regulations;

(i) respecting the procedure for the collection of costs, expenses, losses, damages and charges incurred by the Minister while acting under this Act or the regulations, including the sharing of proceeds where the amount available or the amount collected is not sufficient to satisfy all claims;

(j) regulating, controlling, prescribing and providing for methods, standards or tests for determining the amount, concentration, level or presence of any contaminant or waste or any class of contaminant or waste in or upon water;

(k) respecting the establishment of a water classification system;

(k.1) classifying all or any portion of the water of a watercourse;

(k.2) excluding all or any portion of the water of a watercourse from classification;

(k.3) providing the Minister with the discretion to determine the suitability of classification of the water of a watercourse;

(k.4) respecting the criteria or standards that a class of water is to meet;

(k.5) providing the Minister with the discretion to determine whether the water of a watercourse meets the criteria or standards of a particular class before it is classified;

(k.6) providing that the water of a watercourse may be classified into a class where the water is intended by the Minister to meet or eventually meet the standards or criteria applicable to the class of water;

(k.7) prohibiting any activity that might impair the quality or quantity of the water of a watercourse that is classified;

(k.8) respecting procedures, consultations or evaluations that are to be followed or undertaken before the water of a watercourse may be classified or excluded from a classification;

(k.81) respecting conditions to be satisfied before the water of a watercourse is classified;

(k.82) imposing restrictions on the classification of the water of a watercourse;

(k.83) establishing or requiring the Minister to establish a review panel to provide advice to the Minister on the classification of the water of a watercourse;

(k.84) prescribing the composition of a review panel, terms of office of members of the panel, the election or appointment of officers, the duties and responsibilities of the panel, the reimbursement of expenses of and the payments of an allowance to members of the panel when carrying out their duties and any other matters relating to the operation of a panel;

(l) respecting insurance coverage or the posting of security as a condition of obtaining, continuing to hold, having renewed, having reinstated or transferring a registration, licence, permit or approval;

(l.1) respecting the matters in relation to which the Potable Water Advisory Committee makes recommendations under section 13.1;

(m) respecting the designation of all or any portion of a watershed, aquifer or ground water recharge area as a protected area and the prohibition of, control of, limitation of, allocation of or imposition of terms, conditions or standards respecting any activity, thing or water or land use within the area so designated, for the purpose of protecting the quality or quantity of the water in the protected area;

(n) regulating, controlling, prohibiting, directing or providing for the location, construction, testing, alteration, modification, use, operation, repairing, monitoring, inspection, discharge or removal of sources of contaminant, dangers of pollution, waterworks, hydro-electric projects or control dams;

(o) regulating, controlling, prohibiting, directing or providing for river diversions, drainage diversions or alterations or diversions of all or part of a watercourse or wetland or the water flowing in a watercourse or wetland;

(p) regulating, controlling or prohibiting the erection or placing of structures of any kind on the ice of a body of water, including providing for the removal of structures erected or placed contrary to the regulations;

(q) regulating, controlling, prohibiting, directing or providing for the location, construction, testing, alteration, modification, operation, repairing, inspection or removal of structures or things that lie within or cross or that may lie within or cross a watercourse or wetland;

(r) designating or authorizing the Minister to designate an area subject to flooding as a flood hazard area and prohibiting, restricting or limiting or authorizing the Minister to prohibit, restrict or limit any construction or development within or any alteration to the area so designated that would increase the risk or magnitude of flooding or would in any way alter or divert the flow of water within the area at any time;

(s) establishing an advisory board in relation to

(t) respecting the location, spacing, construction, testing, alteration, reconditioning, repairing, sealing, capping and abandoning of wells and the materials, methods and equipment used in constructing, testing, altering, reconditioning, repairing, sealing or capping wells;

(u) respecting the content of, timing of, publishing of, service of or any other matter relating to any notice, order or other document that is required to be given or served under this Act or the regulations;

(v) establishing the duties of the Land and Water Advisory Committee;

(w) respecting the issue, transfer, suspension, cancellation, renewal and reinstatement of registrations, licences, permits and approvals;

(w.1) respecting the exemption of persons or classes of persons from the requirement to obtain a permit under this Act and respecting the waiver for persons or classes of persons of the requirement to obtain a permit under this Act;

(x) establishing or authorizing the Minister to impose terms and conditions upon which registrations, licences, permits and approvals may be refused, issued, transferred, held, suspended, cancelled, renewed and reinstated;

(y) establishing fees and the manner of payment of fees to be paid upon the application for, and upon the issuance, transfer, renewal and reinstatement of, registrations, licences, permits and approvals;

(z) establishing fees, rentals and charges and the manner of payment of fees, rentals and charges to be paid under this Act and the regulations;

(z.1) respecting forms for the purposes of this Act and the regulations;

(aa) respecting the duties and powers of inspectors and analysts, the taking of samples and the analysis of substances for the purposes of this Act and the regulations;

(bb) respecting the records to be kept, the returns to be made and the information to be given by an owner or operator, or both, of a source of any class of, or any, contaminant, waterworks, well, public water supply system or water supply system or by any person or class of person who handles, releases, removes or disposes of any class of, or any, contaminant, waste, gas, liquid or solid into, from or upon water;

(cc) respecting the confidentiality of documents and other information filed or submitted under this Act and the regulations, the period during which the documents and information are to be confidential and the persons to whom the documents and information may be disclosed; and

(dd) defining public water supply system for the purposes of this Act and the regulations.

(a.1) prescribing agricultural activities for the purposes of paragraph (e) or (h) in the definition “alteration”;

(b) prescribing any matter to be waste;

(c) respecting the release, handling, disposal or removal of any class of, or any, contaminants, wastes, gases, liquids or solids into, from or upon water;

(d) regulating, controlling, prohibiting, directing or providing for the withdrawal, use, storage and handling of water;

(e) providing for the appeal of an order, designation or decision made under this Act or the regulations;

(f) respecting the manner of appeal from orders, designations or decisions made under this Act or the regulations;

(g) respecting the responsibility for and the payment and recovery of any cost, expense, loss, damages or charge incurred by the Minister or any person, including the cost, expense, loss, damages or charge incurred by all persons, materials and equipment employed and by repairing any damage done, to operate, rectify, control, reduce, eliminate, remove, modify, clean up, rehabilitate, remedy or investigate any matter or thing coming within this Act or the regulations;

(h) respecting the carriage, conduct and settlement of claims and actions relating to matters coming within this Act and the regulations;

(i) respecting the procedure for the collection of costs, expenses, losses, damages and charges incurred by the Minister while acting under this Act or the regulations, including the sharing of proceeds where the amount available or the amount collected is not sufficient to satisfy all claims;

(j) regulating, controlling, prescribing and providing for methods, standards or tests for determining the amount, concentration, level or presence of any contaminant or waste or any class of contaminant or waste in or upon water;

(k) respecting the establishment of a water classification system;

(l) respecting insurance coverage or the posting of security as a condition of obtaining, continuing to hold, having renewed, having reinstated or transferring a registration, licence, permit or approval;

(l.1) respecting the matters in relation to which the Potable Water Advisory Committee makes recommendations under section 13.1;

(m) respecting the designation of all or any portion of a watershed, aquifer or ground water recharge area as a protected area and the prohibition of, control of, limitation of, allocation of or imposition of terms, conditions or standards respecting any activity, thing or water or land use within the area so designated, for the purpose of protecting the quality or quantity of the water in the protected area;

(n) regulating, controlling, prohibiting, directing or providing for the location, construction, testing, alteration, modification, use, operation, repairing, monitoring, inspection, discharge or removal of sources of contaminant, dangers of pollution, waterworks, hydro-electric projects or control dams;

(o) regulating, controlling, prohibiting, directing or providing for river diversions, drainage diversions or alterations or diversions of all or part of a watercourse or wetland or the water flowing in a watercourse or wetland;

(p) regulating, controlling or prohibiting the erection or placing of structures of any kind on the ice of a body of water, including providing for the removal of structures erected or placed contrary to the regulations;

(q) regulating, controlling, prohibiting, directing or providing for the location, construction, testing, alteration, modification, operation, repairing, inspection or removal of structures or things that lie within or cross or that may lie within or cross a watercourse or wetland;

(r) designating or authorizing the Minister to designate an area subject to flooding as a flood hazard area and prohibiting, restricting or limiting or authorizing the Minister to prohibit, restrict or limit any construction or development within or any alteration to the area so designated that would increase the risk or magnitude of flooding or would in any way alter or divert the flow of water within the area at any time;

(s) establishing an advisory board in relation to

(t) respecting the location, spacing, construction, testing, alteration, reconditioning, repairing, sealing, capping and abandoning of wells and the materials, methods and equipment used in constructing, testing, altering, reconditioning, repairing, sealing or capping wells;

(u) respecting the content of, timing of, publishing of, service of or any other matter relating to any notice, order or other document that is required to be given or served under this Act or the regulations;

(v) establishing the duties of the Land and Water Advisory Committee;

(w) respecting the issue, transfer, suspension, cancellation, renewal and reinstatement of registrations, licences, permits and approvals;

(w.1) respecting the exemption of persons or classes of persons from the requirement to obtain a permit under this Act and respecting the waiver for persons or classes of persons of the requirement to obtain a permit under this Act;

(x) establishing or authorizing the Minister to impose terms and conditions upon which registrations, licences, permits and approvals may be refused, issued, transferred, held, suspended, cancelled, renewed and reinstated;

(y) establishing fees and the manner of payment of fees to be paid upon the application for, and upon the issuance, transfer, renewal and reinstatement of, registrations, licences, permits and approvals;

(z) establishing fees, rentals and charges and the manner of payment of fees, rentals and charges to be paid under this Act and the regulations;

(z.1) respecting forms for the purposes of this Act and the regulations;

(aa) respecting the duties and powers of inspectors and analysts, the taking of samples and the analysis of substances for the purposes of this Act and the regulations;

(bb) respecting the records to be kept, the returns to be made and the information to be given by an owner or operator, or both, of a source of any class of, or any, contaminant, waterworks, well, public water supply system or water supply system or by any person or class of person who handles, releases, removes or disposes of any class of, or any, contaminant, waste, gas, liquid or solid into, from or upon water;

(cc) respecting the confidentiality of documents and other information filed or submitted under this Act and the regulations, the period during which the documents and information are to be confidential and the persons to whom the documents and information may be disclosed; and

(dd) defining public water supply system for the purposes of this Act and the regulations.