NOVEMBER 2019 • COUNTRY LIFE IN BC Riparian assessment requirements updated
Normal farm practices exempt from assessment
by BARBARA JOHNSTONE GRIMMER
VICTORIA – A new Riparian
Areas Protection Regulation (RAPR) took effect November 1 in response to concerns over industry’s use of qualified professionals and a 53% rate of non-compliance among reports submitted to satisfy provincial regulations. The so-called professional
reliance model under the regulation was critiqued in a report by the provincial ombudsperson in 2014. The system as a whole was the subject of a scathing review submitted to the BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy in 2018. It resulted in the passage of the Professional Governance Act later that year and the establishment of the Office of the Superintendent of Professional Governance. The new regulation for riparian areas requires that those practicing as qualified environmental professionals, including agrologists, demonstrate that they have taken and achieved a passing grade on a course of study approved by the BC Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development relating to assessments and assessment reports. A certification protocol will be phased in.
The ministry has also been
given power to reject reports. “Staff currently review
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100% of reports submitted for compliance with the required methods,” a ministry spokesperson explains. “Once the amended regulation is in force, any report that contains errors or omissions will be rejected by the ministry and only approved once the report is in compliance." To what degree the changes will affect farmers and ranchers is unknown. Assessment protocols
remain the same, and normal farm practices remain exempt from assessment requirements. Lee Hesketh of the
Farmland Riparian Interface Stewardship Program (FRISP) of the BC Cattlemen’s Association is waiting to see how this regulation will fit with agricultural practices and realities as well as the new federal Fisheries Act passed earlier this year. "As landowners, how do we manage our land?” he asks. “We need regulations to protect the environment, but we also need common sense so practitioners can manage their land."
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