What role does Source Protection Authorities and Source Protection Committees play in the source water protection framework?
Source Protection Authority (SPA)The Act calls for each Source Protection Authority establish a multi-stakeholder Source Protection Committee (SPC). The SPAs are primarily responsible for overseeing and coordinating the planning process and providing administrative, technical and scientific support to the Source Protection Committee. SPAs have no approval role in the legislation they can merely provide comments on a Terms of Reference, Assessment Report and Source Protection Plan before it is submitted to the Ministry. The Assessment Report and Source Protection Plan must be submitted to the MOE by the SPA. SPAs cannot make decisions on behalf of a municipality or undertake decisions that would compel a municipality to undertake certain actions without a municipalitys consent. Source Protection Committee (SPC) The SPC is responsible for preparing the Terms of Reference, the Assessment Report and the Source Protection Plan and must ensure that stakeholders and the public in the watershe
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