How is the Orphan Fund involved in the OWL Program?
Waste Management (WM) approval holders included within the OWL Program will pay into an Orphan Fund levy administered by the ERCB. A licensee is assessed based on its proportionate share of any Orphan Levy based on its deemed liability in the OWL and LLR Programs to the total deemed liability within the OWL and LLR Programs. Should an OWL non producer licensee (NPL) become defunct within the first five years of the effective date of the OWL Program, the remaining OWL NPLs will be subject to a separate OWL NPL levy to address up to the first $2 million of any suspension, abandonment, decontamination and surface land reclamation costs. Any remaining costs over $2 million will be an expense of the Orphan Fund. These costs will be recovered in the same manner as any other Orphan Levy cost, which will be payable by licensees in both the LLR and OWL Programs.
