The Land and Water Boards of the Mackenzie Valley (LWBs) are pleased to announce the release of administrative updates to the Standard Water Licence and Land Use Permit Conditions Templates.
Version 2.3 of the Standard Water Licence Conditions Template includes changes to water use regulation and reporting requirements for specific types of projects that use water for ice bridges in winter road construction. These changes reflect the revised LWB Reference Bulletin: Water Use and the associated Reasoning Annex, released in July 2024, which provide more detail on how water use, including ice-bridge water use, is regulated in the Mackenzie Valley.
Version 2.4 of the Standard Land Use Permit Conditions Template includes a new standard definition and conditions for Closure and Reclamation Plans, which parallel the existing definitions and conditions for other standard plans (e.g., Waste Management Plan) that are required in all applications and permits. Note that this does not change the LWB requirements or expectations for these Plans.
Both Templates include a Revision History Table that summarizes the changes in these and previous versions.
To access the Licence Template, you can do so here: word, pdf.