11.1 Where the Commission has issued an order pursuant to subsection 5(1) relating to the construction of a storage facility, a copy of each drawing referred to in subsection 7(2) shall be kept by the railway company for the life of the storage facility and retained for at least two years thereafter.

12. Except as provided in sections 13 and 14, the horizontal distance between a storage facility and the nearest point of another building, structure or property line, should not be less than

• (a) 300 feet from any school, hospital, hotel, motel, church, theatre, auditorium, sports arena, multi-store shopping centre, apartment or other similar multi-unit residential building, office building or department store or merchandise building of more than one storey in height or any other similar structure used for assembly, institutional, residential, business, personal service, or mercantile purposes, or any building considered by the Commission to belong to this category;

• (b) 150 feet from a single family dwelling, railway passenger station, railway station-dwelling, office building or department store or merchandise building or restaurant of one storey in height, or any other similar structure used for housing, business, personal service, or mercantile purposes, or any other building considered by the Commission to belong to this category;

• (c) 100 feet from any factory, railway shop or other building used primarily for manufacturing, processing or for maintenance or repair work, or from an adjoining office building associated with these buildings, except that this distance should not be less than 50 feet if the capacity of the storage facility does not exceed 200 tons;

• (d) 100 feet from any railway freight station, warehouse, storage tank or any other storage or transfer facility used for a combustible or dangerous commodity or from an adjoining office building associated with these buildings, except that this distance should not be less than 50 feet if the capacity of the storage facility does not exceed 200 tons;

• (e) the following distances from the nearest point of the line of an adjoining property which has been or may be built upon and which is owned or leased by any person or company other than the owner of the storage facility:

  • (i) not less than 25 feet if the capacity of the storage facility does not exceed 200 tons,

  • (ii) not less than 50 feet if the capacity of the storage facility exceeds 200 tons, unless it is constructed of non-combustible materials as provided for by subparagraph (iii) or the adjoining property is occupied by another ammonium nitrate storage facility as provided for by subparagraph (iv),

  • (iii) not less than 25 feet if the storage facility referred to in subparagraph (ii) is of non-combustible construction and has a fire separation of not less than 1 1/2 hours on the exposed side,

  • (iv) not less than 25 feet if the property adjoining the property referred to in subparagraph (ii) is occupied by another ammonium nitrate storage facility approved in accordance with these Regulations and if there are no other buildings between the two storage facilities;

• (f) 20 feet from the gauge side of the nearest rail of a main track or any track other than a track serving the storage facility; and

• (g) the distances prescribed in Schedule I from the gauge side of the nearest rail of the track serving the storage facility.