Sensitive Streams Designation and Licensing Regulation (B.C. Reg. 89/2000).

This Regulation is divided up into 8 parts as follows: 1 Definition; 2 Application of regulation; 3 Designated streams; 4 Qualifications of expert providing report; 5 Powers to require additional information for purposes of application; 6 Onus on applicant to comply with all other relevant enactment's; 7 Mitigation strategies; 8 Compensation proposals and Schedule of Designated Streams. Section 6 (2) of the Fish Protection Act, S.B.C. 1997, c. 21 provides for the Lieutenant Governor in Council, by regulation, to designate a stream as a sensitive stream. The purpose of the designation would be to contribute to the protection of a population of fish whose sustainability is at risk because of inadequate flow of water within the stream or degradation of fish habitat. Accordingly the schedule attached to this Regulation lists streams that are so designated as sensitive streams. In regard to an application for a water licence, approval or amendment an applicant must provide information on mitigation strategies during project planning, design, construction and operation, which may include for example practices and procedures to maintain water quality. Finally the Regulation deals with "in kind compensation" meaning fish habitat that is provided in place of or instead of fish habitat that would suffer a significant adverse impact under a works proposal.