Canadian Environmental Assessment Act

WHEREAS the Government of Canada seeks to achieve sustainable development by conserving and enhancing environmental quality and by encouraging and promoting economic development that conserves and enhances environmental quality;WHEREAS environmental assessment provides an effective means of integrating environmental factors into planning and decision-making processes in a manner that promotes sustainable development;WHEREAS the Government of Canada is committed to exercising leadership within Canada and internationally in anticipating and preventing the degradation of environmental quality and at the same time ensuring that economic development is compatible with the high value Canadians place on environmental quality;AND WHEREAS the Government of Canada is committed to facilitating public participation in the environmental assessment of projects to be carried out by or with the approval or assistance of the Government of Canada and providing access to the information on which those environmental assessments are based;NOW, THEREFORE, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

Short Title

Interpretation

Her Majesty

Purposes

Environmental Assessment of Projects

Environmental Assessment Process

Transboundary and Related Environmental Effects

Agreements and Arrangements

Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry

Relevant Information

Judicial Review

Administration

Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency

Annual Report

Review

Transitional

Consequential Amendments

Coming into Force

Projects and Classes of Projects (Section 7.1)