Canada – British Columbia Specified Risk Material (SRM) Management Program

1. Canada – British Columbia Agreement Establishing the Facilitation of the Disposal of Specified Risk Materials (SRM) Program

2. Canada – British Columbia Specified Risk Material (SRM) Management Program

4. Two Parallel Programs • Cost Sharing: 60:40 • SRM Management Program ($7.5M) Termination: March 2010 • LWTI Program ($5.0M) Termination: 2012

5. “… calling Canadian meat unhealthy is like calling your twin sister ugly…” • President, American Meat Institute

6. Key Dates • 1997: Partial feed ban • May 2003: First BSE diagnosis • December 11, 2004: Announcement of enhanced feed ban • April 12, 2007: Federal/provincial agreement announced • July 12, 2007: Implementation of enhanced feed ban regulations

7. CFIA Enhanced Feed Ban Regulations • prohibition of SRM in all animal feeds, pet foods and fertilizers • in effect as of July 12, 2007 • applies to federal and provincial slaughter plants • applies to anyone who is transporting SRM materials off the site of origin

8. Transport Permit • Emergency Transport Permit • Receiving Permit • Processing Permit • Confinement Permit • Destruction Permit

9. AlbertaProcessing Company

10. Subprogram A:On-Site Slaughter Plant SRM Separation and Storage • Subprogram B:On-Site Slaughter Plant SRM Destruction or Containment • Subprogram C: Community/Regional SRM Destruction or Containment

11. Subprogram D:Bovine Dead Stock SRM Storage, Destruction or Containment • Subprogram E:Environmental Assessments • Subprogram F:On-Site Slaughter Plant SRM Separation, Storage, Destruction or Containment

12. Subprogram Summaries • 22 ‘A’ applications (Separation and Storage) • 6 ‘B’ applications (Destruction or Containment) • 9 ‘C’ applications (Community/Regional) • 3 ‘D’ applications (Dead Stock Service Providers) • 6 ‘F’ applications (Combinations of A and B) • 7 Remainder (Miscellaneous, Environmental) $1,970,508 committed ($1.6M for A and B)

13. Disposal Options • Land Filling (containment) • Rendering (intermediate) • Composting (intermediate) • Incineration/Gasification (destruction)

16. BC Ruminant Waste Transfer Station • West Coast Reduction Ltd. • East Abbotsford • Contract Term: 3 years • Expiration: February 2008 • Throughput: 1350 tons/month • Source: Fraser Valley wastes • Destination: Calgary plant

20. Sumas Drainage Canal Bridge

21. Subprogram C: Community/Regional SRM Destruction or Containment • for development of infrastructure for regional solutions throughout province • funding to be determined on case by case basis

22. Subprogram D: Bovine Dead Stock SRM Storage, Destruction or Containment • intended for existing dead stock collectors (Carson’s Stock Farm, Dargatz Mink Ranch, Canal Farm, Robertson Farms) • funding to be determined on case by case basis • closely linked to Subprogram C

23. Subprogram E: Environmental Assessments Required for Projects • EA review required by CEAA funding trigger • funding: 100% to maximum of $30,000

24. CEAA Consistency Environmental Assessment Survey • Inclusion List Questions • Exclusion List Questions • Small-Scale Infrastructure Applicability

25. Subprograms C and D Overarching Guiding Principles • Existing SRM generators with economically feasible solution for SRM and non-SRM • Solution addresses SRM generated from: - slaughter establishments - cut and wrap facilities - dead stock collectors - farmers and ranchers

26. Guiding Principles • Solutions are economically and environmentally sustainable in the medium to long term (10 years) • Capacity to handle major mass carcass disposal events • Availability to new entrants to enable industry expansion

27. Guiding Principles • Compliance with CFIA, MOE, and ALC acts, regulations and guidelines • Projects to be based on sound science and technologies to be at commercial implementation stage

28. Guiding Principles • Projects to result in net positive benefit to existing businesses affected by rising disposal costs • Demonstration of support by majority of affected SRM generators • Projects must result in acceptable methods of SRM disposal, whether by destruction or containment

29. Guiding Principles • Province-wide solutions better than regional better than individual/piecemeal • Most comprehensive in dealing with both SRM and non-SRM

30. Guiding Principles • Ability to deliver end results in most cost-effective manner • Resulting in province, public or SRM generators having some measure of control over facility operations • Highest support from industry and local government

31. Miscellaneous Projects • Ference Weicker Contract: Options and Evaluations of SRM Disposal Technology for the Fraser Valley • Stantec Consulting Contract: Economic Assessment of Combustion Technologies for SRM Disposal • Demonstration Incinerator

32. Community Solution Challenges • identifying and choosing appropriate regional solutions and technologies • weighing on-site solutions vis-à-vis community solutions • support from local governments and industry • incorporating other waste streams (mass mortality, solid manure, municipal wastes) • community acceptance • limited funding • meeting timelines