Marginal note:Obligation to comply with coordinator’s requests

12.5 Every federal authority shall comply in a timely manner with requests and determinations made by the federal environmental assessment coordinator in the course of carrying out its duties or functions.

Marginal note:Action suspended

13. Where a project is described in the comprehensive study list or is referred to a mediator or a review panel, notwithstanding any other Act of Parliament, no power, duty or function conferred by or under that Act or any regulation made thereunder shall be exercised or performed that would permit the project to be carried out in whole or in part unless an environmental assessment of the project has been completed and a course of action has been taken in relation to the project in accordance with paragraph 37(1)(a).

Marginal note:Environmental assessment process

14. The environmental assessment process includes, where applicable,

• (a) a screening or comprehensive study and the preparation of a screening report or a comprehensive study report;

• (b) a mediation or assessment by a review panel as provided in section 29 and the preparation of a report; and

• (c) the design and implementation of a follow-up program.

Marginal note:Scope of project

• 15. (1) The scope of the project in relation to which an environmental assessment is to be conducted shall be determined by

  • (a) the responsible authority; or

  • (b) where the project is referred to a mediator or a review panel, the Minister, after consulting with the responsible authority.

• Marginal note:Same assessment for related projects

  (2) For the purposes of conducting an environmental assessment in respect of two or more projects,

  • (a) the responsible authority, or

  • (b) where at least one of the projects is referred to a mediator or a review panel, the Minister, after consulting with the responsible authority,

  may determine that the projects are so closely related that they can be considered to form a single project.

• Marginal note:All proposed undertakings to be considered

  (3) Where a project is in relation to a physical work, an environmental assessment shall be conducted in respect of every construction, operation, modification, decommissioning, abandonment or other undertaking in relation to that physical work that is proposed by the proponent or that is, in the opinion of

  • (a) the responsible authority, or

  • (b) where the project is referred to a mediator or a review panel, the Minister, after consulting with the responsible authority,

  likely to be carried out in relation to that physical work.