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Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and Regulations

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The Canadian Environmental Assessment Act

Regulations under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act

Canada Port Authority Environmental Assessment Regulations

These regulations define the environmental assessment process to be followed by port authorities for projects which they may carry out as a proponent, or for which they may provide land or financial assistance.

Comprehensive Study List Regulations

These regulations list projects or classes of projects that must undergo a comprehensive study type of environmental assessment because it has been determined that they will likely have significant adverse environmental effects.

Crown Corporations Involved in the Provision of Commercial Loans Environmental Assessment Regulations

These regulations modify the public notification requirements of the federal environmental assessment process for Crown corporations that may provide commercial loans. The variations primarily affect screening-type environmental assessments when there is no public participation. These regulations apply to two federal parent Crown corporations: the Business Development Bank of Canada and Farm Credit Canada.

Exclusion List Regulations, 2007

These regulations specify projects involving physical works with insignificant environmental effects that are exempt from environmental assessment under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.

Federal Authorities Regulations

These regulations prescribe, for the purposes of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, specified bodies as federal authorities beyond those identified in the Act.

Inclusion List Regulations

These regulations prescribe the physical activities and classes of physical activities, not relating to physical works, that may require an environmental assessment before a federal authority initiates or funds them, or grants land or issues regulatory approvals that allow the activities to proceed.

Law List Regulations

These regulations identify those federal statutory and regulatory approvals that will trigger an environmental assessment. Under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, an environmental assessment may be required whenever a federal authority is asked to provide a license, permit, certificate or other regulatory authorization prescribed in these regulations.

Projects Outside Canada Environmental Assessment Regulations

These regulations prescribe the procedures for environmental assessments of projects outside Canada and any federal lands, for which a federal authority exercises a power or performs a duty or function described in paragraph 5(1)(a) or (b) of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.

Regulations Respecting the Coordination by Federal Authorities of Environmental Assessment Procedures and Requirements

These regulations set out procedures and time lines for federal authorities to follow in order to determine if the environmental assessment of a project may involve more than one responsible authority or more than one expert federal authority, and to ensure coordination of key decisions throughout the environmental assessment.

 

Last Updated: 2007-10-15

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