Canadian Environmental Assessment Act

Marginal note:Establishment and maintenance

• 55.1 (1) The Agency shall, in accordance with this Act and the regulations, establish and maintain an Internet site to be generally accessible through what is commonly referred to as the Internet.

• Marginal note:Contents

  (2) Subject to subsection 55.5(1), the Internet site shall include

  • (a) within 14 days after the commencement of an environmental assessment, notice of its commencement, except where a class screening report is used under subsection 19(5) or (6);

  • (b) an agreement contemplated by subsection 12.4(3);

  • (c) a description of the scope of the project in relation to which an environmental assessment is to be conducted, as determined under section 15 or 15.1;

  • (d) a statement of the projects in respect of which a class screening report is used under subsection 19(5) or (6);

  • (e) any declaration referred to in subsection 19(4) and the report to which it relates or a description of how a copy of the report may be obtained, and any declaration referred to in subsection 19(9);

  • (f) notice of termination of an environmental assessment by a responsible authority under section 26;

  • (g) notice of termination of an environmental assessment by the Minister under section 27;

  • (h) any public notices that are issued by responsible authorities or the Agency to request public input into an environmental assessment;

  • (i) [Repealed, 2010, c. 12, s. 2159]

  • (j) if the responsible authority, in accordance with subsection 18(3), gives the public an opportunity to participate in the screening of a project or when a comprehensive study is conducted, a description of the factors to be taken into consideration in the environmental assessment and of the scope of those factors or an indication of how such a description may be obtained;

  • (k) the screening or comprehensive study report taken into consideration by a responsible authority for the purpose of a decision under section 20 or 37 or a description of how a copy of the report may be obtained, except where a class screening report is used under subsection 19(5) or (6);

  • (l) an environmental assessment decision statement under subsection 23(1) and any request made under subsection 23(2);

  • (m) notice of the referral of a project to a mediator or review panel;

  • (n) the terms of reference of a mediation or a review panel;

  • (o) if the Minister has ordered the conclusion of a mediation under subsection 29(4), notice of the order;

  • (p) a report of a mediator or review panel or a summary of the report;

  • (q) a response under paragraph 37(1.1)(a) to the report of a mediator or review panel;

  • (r) except where a class screening report is used under subsection 19(5) or (6), the decision of a responsible authority, made under section 20 or 37 concerning the environmental effects of the project, and a statement of any mitigation measures the implementation of which the responsible authority took into account in making its decision;

  • (s) a notice stating whether or not, pursuant to subsection 38(1), a follow-up program for the project is considered appropriate;

  • (t) a description summarizing any follow-up program and its results or an indication of how a full description of the program and its results may be obtained;

  • (u) any other information that the responsible authority or the Agency, as the case may be, considers appropriate, including information in the form of a list of relevant documents in which case a description of how they may be obtained shall be provided; and

  • (v) any other record or information prescribed under paragraph 59(h.1).

• Marginal note:Form and manner of Internet site

  (3) The Agency shall determine and notify the public

  • (a) what the form of the Internet site is to be and how it is to be kept;

  • (b) how records and information are to be included in it;

  • (c) what information must be contained in any record referred to in subsection (2);

  • (d) what records and information are to be included in the Internet site, in addition to any record referred to in subsection (2);

  • (e) when information must be included in the Internet site;

  • (f) when information may be removed from the Internet site; and

  • (g) how access to the Internet site is to be provided.