name: Canadian Environmental Assessment Act
unofficial_text: # Canadian Environmental Assessment Act
  
  SC 1992, c 37
  
  An Act to establish a federal environmental assessment process
  
  Assented to 1992-6-23
  
  ### Preamble
   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 
  1  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Interpretation 
  2  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Her Majesty 
  3  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Purposes 
  4  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Environmental Assessment of Projects 
  
  ## Projects to be Assessed 
  5  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  6  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Excluded Projects 
  7  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  7.1  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  8  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  9  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  9.1  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  10  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  10.1  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Responsible Authority 
  11  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  11.01  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  11.1  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  11.2  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  12  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Federal Environmental Assessment Coordinator 
  12.1  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  12.2  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  12.3  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  12.4  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  12.5  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Action of Federal Authorities Suspended 
  13  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Environmental Assessment Process 
  
  ## General 
  14  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  15  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  15.1  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  16  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  16.1  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  16.2  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  16.3  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  17  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Screening 
  18  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  19  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  20  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Comprehensive Study 
  21  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  21.1  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  21.2  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  21.3  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  22  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  23  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  24  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Discretionary Powers 
  25  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  26  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  27  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  28  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Mediation and Panel Reviews 
  29  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  30  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  31  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  32  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  33  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  34  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  35  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  36  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Decision of Responsible Authority 
  37  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Follow-up Program 
  38  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Certificate 
  39  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Joint Review Panels 
  40  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  41  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  42  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Public Hearing by a Federal Authority 
  43  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  44  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  45  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Transboundary and Related Environmental Effects 
  46  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  47  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  48  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  49  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  50  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  51  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  52  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  53  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Agreements and Arrangements 
  54  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry 
  
  ## Establishment of Registry 
  55  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Internet Site 
  55.1  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  55.2  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  55.3  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Project Files 
  55.4  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## General 
  55.5  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  55.6  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Relevant Information 
  56  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  56.1  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Judicial Review 
  57  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Administration 
  
  ## Minister’s Powers 
  58  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Regulations 
  59  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  60  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency 
  61  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  62  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  63  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  64  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  65  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  66  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  67  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  68  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  69  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  70  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Annual Report 
  71  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Review 
  72  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Transitional 
  73  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  74  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Consequential Amendments 
  75 to 81  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  ## Coming into Force 
  82  [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 66]  
  
  