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==Guidelines==
==Guidelines==
===Code of Practice===
A comprehensive scientific assessment by Environment Canada and Health Canada determined that in sufficient concentrations, road salts containing inorganic chloride salts pose a risk to plants, animals and the aquatic environment (EC&HC, 2001) and are toxic substances as defined by the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999.
Following the designation of chloride as a toxic substance, the Government of Canada established a Code of Practice for the Environmental Management of Road Salts under CEPA to help municipalities and other road authorities to better manage road salt use and reduce the adverse impacts of chloride, which maintaining road safety (Environment Canada, 2004).
The Code recommended, on a voluntary basis, that road authorities and municipalities applying more than 500 tonnes of road salt per develop salt management plans and implement best management practices for salt application, salt storage and snow disposal as described in the Transportation Association of Canada’s (TAC) Synthesis of Salt Management Best Practices (provide link). The Code does not address the use of road salt on parking lots and private property or its use as a dust suppressant but a Best Practice document specifically for these areas was developed by TAC in 2013.
Environment Canada and Health Canada 2001 Road Salts: Priority Substances List Assessment Report. Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. Environment Canada and Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
Environment Canada 2004 Code of Practice for the Environmental Management of Road Salts. Report EPS 1/CC/5. Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.