(Sections 153, 188, 205)
PROJECTS AUTOMATICALLY EXEMPT FROM THE ASSESSMENT AND REVIEW PROCEDURE
The projects listed below are automatically exempt from the assessment and review procedure contemplated in sections 153 to 167 and 187 to 204:
(a) all hotels or motels of 20 beds or less and all service stations along highways;
(b) all other structures intended for dwellings, wholesale and retail trade, or intended for offices or garages, or intended for handicrafts or car parks;
(c) all fossil-fuel fired power generating plants having a calorific capacity below 3 000 kW;
(d) all school or educational establishments, rest areas, observation points, banks, fire stations or immovables intended for administrative, recreational, cultural, religious, sport and health purposes or for telecommunications;
(e) all control or transformer stations of a voltage of 75 kV or less, or electric power transmission lines of a voltage of 75 kV or less;
(f) all water and sewer mains, and all oil or gas mains of less than 30 cm in diameter with a maximum length of 8 km;
(g) all testing, preliminary investigation, research, experiments outside the plant, aerial or ground reconnaissance work and survey or technical survey works prior to any project;
(h) all forestry development when included in plans provided for in the Forest Act (chapter F-4.1) provided that, where they are applicable to the territory referred to in section 133 of this Act, the plans governed by Division IV of Chapter III of Title I of the Forest Act, before being approved or finalized by the Minister of Natural Resources, were the subject of a consultation, in the case of a general plan, with the Cree-Québec Forestry Board as required under the second and third paragraphs of section 95.20 of that Act and, in the case of an annual plan, with the joint working group concerned, as required under paragraphs 37 and 39 of Part IV (C-4) of Schedule C to the Agreement Concerning a New Relationship Between le Gouvernement du Québec and the Crees of Québec;
(i) all municipal streets and sidewalks;
(j) all maintenance and operation of public and private roads;
(k) all repairs and maintenance on existing municipal works;
(l) all temporary hunting, fishing and trapping camps and all outfitting facilities or camps for less than 30 persons;
(m) all small wood cuttings for personal or community use;
(n) all borrow pits for highway maintenance purposes.
Moreover, all projects carried out within the territorial limits of a non-Native community and which do not have an impact on the wildlife outside of these limits are exempt from sections 153 to 167.
Lastly, any project within the territorial limits of a community which does not have an impact on the wildlife outside of such limits as well as the extraction and handling of soapstone, sand, gravel, copper and wood for personal or community use are exempt from sections 187 to 204.
The exemptions provided for in paragraphs a to f and in paragraphs l to n of this Schedule apply to the establishment, construction, modification, renovation and relocation of the projects contemplated.