Q-2 - Environment Quality Act

Section 31.3.1 Disposition versions

2022-05-12

31.3.1. After receiving the Minister’s directive, the project proponent must, within the time prescribed by government regulation, publish a notice to announce the commencement of the project’s environmental assessment and the filing, in the environmental assessment register created under section 118.5.0.1, of the notice required under section 31.2 and the Minister’s directive. The notice announcing the commencement of the assessment must also mention that any person or group may submit observations to the Minister, in writing and within the time prescribed by government regulation, on the issues the impact assessment statement should address.

Following that consultation, the Minister shall send to the project proponent, and publish in the environmental assessment register, the observations made and issues raised whose relevance warrants that it be mandatory to take them into account in the impact assessment statement.

2017, c. 4, s. 20; 2022, c. 8, s. 137.

2018-03-23

31.3.1. After receiving the Minister’s directive, the project proponent must, within the time prescribed by government regulation, publish a notice to announce the commencement of the project’s environmental assessment and the filing, in the environmental assessment register created under section 118.5.0.1, of the notice required under section 31.2 and the Minister’s directive. The notice announcing the commencement of the assessment must also mention that any person, group or municipality may submit observations to the Minister, in writing and within the time prescribed by government regulation, on the issues the impact assessment statement should address.

Following that consultation, the Minister shall send to the project proponent, and publish in the environmental assessment register, the observations made and issues raised whose relevance warrants that it be mandatory to take them into account in the impact assessment statement.

2017, c. 4, s. 20.