Dealing with contamination on Site. (a) If the General Contractor or any person for whom the General Contractor is in law responsible excavates, disturbs, moves, manipulates, treats, pumps, transports or otherwise handles or deals with, or is required to do any of the foregoing for the purposes of the work:
(i) any contamination on the Site (whether such contamination is existing contamination, foreseeable contamination, non-foreseeable contamination or subsequent contamination); or
(ii) any groundwater, surface water, soil, building material or other material on the Site which contains any hazardous substance which exceeds the MOECC background standards or the standards permitted for use at the site under applicable Environmental Laws and Regulations, including the Records of Site Condition regulation 153/04 under the Environmental Protection Act (Ontario),
(b) The General Contractor shall, in compliance with all Environmental Laws and Regulations:
(i) obtain from an independent and qualified environmental consultant, accepted by the University’s Assistant Director - Environmental Management, the required environmental site assessment studies for the Site (or any part or parts thereof), which the General Contractor shall submit to the Assistant Director - Environmental Management University’s project manager.
(ii) remediate, by removal and disposal, such Contamination or such groundwater, surface water, soil, building material or other material, as the case may be (unless an alternative method of contamination management is proposed and accepted) and the General Contractor shall obtain and comply with all Permits, authorizations and approvals required for such removal and disposal or alternative method of management required by applicable Environmental Laws and Regulations.
(c) Complying with its obligations pursuant to section 3.1(a) and (b) of this Agreement, the General Contractor shall observe, comply with and perform, and shall cause all persons for whom the Primary Contractor is in law responsible to observe, comply with and perform, the terms of the protocols set out in the Contaminated Sites Management Plan and the Fuels, Chemicals and Materials Storage and Handling Management Plan, as referred to, respectively, in Sections 2.3.3(c) and 2.3.3(h) of this Agreement.
(d) The General Contractor shall initiate and complete any assessment, remedial or removal and disposal work that it is required to carry out pursuant to this Agreement in accordance with all Environmental Laws to the exte...
