Notice of Transition to the Amended Impact Assessment Act

Ottawa — July 19, 2024 — On June 20, 2024, the Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1 received Royal Assent and brought into force amendments to the Impact Assessment Act (the IAA). Transitional provision 305 of the Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1 states that, in order to bring a designated project under the IAA, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change or the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) must take a step with regards to the project under any of sections 10 to 59 of the IAA.  

In accordance with transitional provision 305(2), IAAC is taking the following step under the IAA for the Summit Lake PG LNG Project (the Project):

• Subsection 18(5) Suspending time limit and posting reasons for the suspension

In posting this Notice, any step completed before the amended IAA came into force regarding the Project is deemed to have been taken under the amended IAA.

IAAC is suspending the 180-day time limit of the Planning phase under the IAA based on a written request from the proponent that the time limit be suspended in order to facilitate alignment with British Columbia's environmental assessment process and to provide IAAC with a Detailed Project Description that includes the information prescribed by the Information and Management of Time Limits Regulations.

Time limits

Transitional provision 305(4) of the Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1 grants IAAC the power to replace any time limit or period established by or under the IAA with another time limit or period.

IAAC is not replacing any time limit or period for the Project. The time limit of the Planning phase will remain at 180 days and is now suspended at 138 days.  IAAC will post a Notice of Time Limit Resuming when it has accepted the proponent's response to the Joint Summary of Issues and Engagement and Detailed Project Description, and resumed the 180-day time limit.

For further information on this impact assessment, please contact:

Summit Lake PG LNG Project
Impact Assessment Agency of Canada
210A - 757 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3M2
Telephone: 604-666-2431
Email: summitlake@iaac-aeic.gc.ca.