Impact Assessment Act

Marginal note:Environmental assessments by former Agency under 2012 Act

• 181 (1) Any environmental assessment of a designated project by the former Agency commenced under the 2012 Act before the day on which this Act comes into force, in respect of which the former Agency has posted the notice of commencement under section 17 of the 2012 Act before that day, is continued under the 2012 Act as if that Act had not been repealed.

• Marginal note:Information or studies

  (2) The proponent of a designated project referred to in subsection (1) must provide the Agency with any information or studies required by the Agency or the former Agency under subsection 23(2) of the 2012 Act within three years after the day on which this Act comes into force.

• Marginal note:Extension of time limit

  (2.1) At the proponent’s request, the Agency may, before the time limit referred to in subsection (2) has expired, extend the time limit by any period that is necessary for the proponent to provide the Agency with the information or studies.

• Marginal note:Continuance or termination of environmental assessment

  (3) If the proponent fails to provide the information or studies within the time limit referred to in subsection (2) or within any extension of that time limit or notifies the Agency that it will fail to do so, the Agency may decide that the environmental assessment of the designated project is to be continued as an impact assessment under this Act or is to be terminated.

• Marginal note:Posting of notice on Internet site

  (4) The Agency must post on the Internet site a notice of any decision made under subsection (3).

• Marginal note:No review panel

  (4.1) Despite subsection 36(1), the Minister is not permitted to refer to a review panel an environmental assessment that, in accordance with subsection (3), is continued as an impact assessment under this Act.

• (4.2) [Repealed, 2024, c. 17, s. 298]

• (4.3) [Repealed, 2024, c. 17, s. 298]

• Marginal note:Exception

  (5) This section does not apply to an environmental assessment of a project that was the subject of an order made by the Minister under subsection 125(7) of the 2012 Act.