Report on Results

		Goal 1: To Increase Investment in Energy and Mining Resource Development in British Columbia

		Goal 2: To Maintain High Environmental and Health and Safety Standards

		Goal 3: To Be a Responsive and Accountable Organization

Deregulation

The ministry has actively participated in all aspects of Government's deregulation initiatives. The ministry's baseline regulatory requirement count as of June 2001 was 17,698 with a targeted reduction of one third, or 5,899 regulatory requirements by June 2004. The ministry's projected reduction was 11 per cent over each of the three fiscal years from 2002/03 to 2004/05, with the target to be achieved by June 2004.

In 2003/04, the ministry eliminated 2,244 regulatory requirements, or about 12.7 per cent of its total, providing an overall 27 per cent reduction in the first two years of the deregulation initiative. This reduction has been achieved in part through revisions to the Mining Operations Branch policy and procedures manuals to bring them into step with earlier streamlining and results-based revisions made to the "Health, Safety and Reclamation Code for Mines in British Columbia". Additionally, the Oil and Gas Commission has recognized significant reductions through; 1) creating up to date web-based documents to replace sections of the 1997 Oil and Gas Handbook, and 2) making preliminary steps towards results-based regulation with the conversion of checklists into an online Application Resource Book.

Report on Results

		Resource Summary by Core Business Areas