GCT Deltaport Expansion - Berth Four Project
Notice of Transition to the Amended Impact Assessment Act
Ottawa – September 20, 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 regard 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 GCT Deltaport Expansion – Berth Four Project (the project):
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.
The British Columbia's Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) is aware that IAAC has taken the step mentioned above, and IAAC will continue to collaborate with the EAO in a coordinated assessment for the project. The project specific cooperation agreement between Canada and British Columbia will be signed and posted to the Registry.
For further information please refer to the Amended IAA – Implications for the DP4 Project .
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 replacing the time limit for the impact statement phase for the project to account for time elapsed during the interim period between the Supreme Court of Canada decision on the constitutionality of the IAA and the coming into force of the amended IAA. The interim period was 251 days therefore the new deadline for the proponent to provide the required information or studies described in the notice of commencement of the impact assessment is February 6, 2028.
For more information on this impact assessment, please contact:
GCT Deltaport Expansion – Berth Four Project
Impact Assessment Agency of Canada
160 Elgin Street, 22nd Floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H3
Telephone: 343-572-7144
Email: deltaport@iaac-aeic.gc.ca
Document reference number: 303