Appendix II: CEPA accountabilities

Parts of CEPA 1999 Accountability
1. Administration National Advisory Committee: Director General - Strategic Priorities Directorate
Agreements: Director General - Strategic Priorities Directorate
Governance: Assistant Deputy Minister - Environmental Protection Service, with support of Director General - Strategic Priorities Directorate
2. Public participation Registry: Director General - Environmental Technology Advancement Directorate
Enforcement/Investigations: Director General - National Programs Directorate
3. Information gathering, objectives, guidelines and codes of practice State of Environment Reporting: Director General - Knowledge Integration Directorate
"Green Lane" and Other Public Awareness Components: Director General - Client Service Transformation
Monitoring: varies with system (e.g., national air pollution monitoring: Director General - Environmental Technology Advancement Directorate). Director General - Risk Assessment Directorate has new responsibility to ensure that CEPA-related information is drawn and reported on from monitoring systems.
Research - Hormone-disrupting Substances: Director General - National Water Research Institute
Research - Ecosystem Health and Environmental Quality: Director General - National Water Research Institute
Research - Vehicles, Engines, Equipment, Fuels: Director General - Environmental Technology Advancement Directorate
Test Method Development: Director General - Environmental Technology Advancement Directorate
Demonstration Projects: Director General - Environmental Technology Advancement Directorate (except municipal wastewater - National Water Research Institute)
Research - Environmental Emergencies: Director General - Environmental Technology Advancement Directorate
Research and Analysis in Support of Compliance and Enforcement: Director General - Environmental Technology Advancement Directorate
Toxics Inventory: Director General - Risk Assessment Directorate
Guidelines: Director General - Air Pollution Prevention Directorate, as part of CEPA risk management
4. Pollution prevention Director General - Pollution Prevention Directorate; functional lead for all risk management, including pollution prevention planning.
Others may execute specifics, e.g., Director General - Environmental Technology Advancement Directorate for municipal wastewater, Regional Director of Quebec Region for textile mill effluents.
5. Controlling toxic substances Risk Assessment: Director General - Risk Assessment Directorate
Note: Adding a substance to the List of Toxic Substances requires agreement with the Director General - Pollution Prevention Directorate, who is accountable for ensuring that CEPA 1999 instruments are proposed and finalized within the time frames specified under the Act.
New Substances Program: Director General - Risk Assessment Directorate
Risk Management: Director General - Pollution Prevention Directorate, for development of risk management measures and tools; Director General - National Programs Directorate for compliance promotion and enforcement
6. Animate products of biotechnology New Substances Program: Director General - Risk Assessment Directorate
7. Controlling pollution and managing wastes Nutrients: N/A
Marine Environment and Disposal at Sea: Director General - Pollution Prevention Directorate
Fuels, Vehicles, Engines and Equipment Emissions: Director General - Air Pollution Prevention Directorate
International Air: Director General - Air Pollution Prevention Directorate
International Water: Director General - Pollution Prevention Directorate
Note: The Act's international air and international water provisions are beyond normal program activities. Use of these authorities would be at the Ministerial level.
8. Environmental matters related to emergencies Director General - National Programs Directorate
9. Government operations and federal and Aboriginal land Director General - Pollution Prevention Directorate
10. Enforcement Director General - National Programs Directorate (functional management to promote consistent national results)
Director General - Regional offices (Operational management - compliance promotion and enforcement programs are delivered in regions)Footnote xxxiv 
Note: To keep Chief Review Officer's independence from departmental enforcement operations, the Assistant Deputy Minister - Human Resources and Service Innovation acts as focal point for departmental interactions with the Chief Review Officer on matters of budget, etc. The Director General - Strategic Priorities Directorate acts as link between the Department's Environmental Protection Service and Human Resources and Service Innovation, as required.
11. Miscellaneous matters Annual Report and Five-year Review: Director General - Strategic Priorities Directorate
Other accountabilities follow other programs, as above.

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