Practitioner’s Guide to Federal Impact Assessments
The Practitioner’s guide is an evergreen document. Check it periodically, its contents may have been updated because of ongoing engagement and feedback received. If you have feedback, please send it to guidancefeedback-retroactionorientation@iaac-aeic.gc.ca.
This Guide includes policy frameworks and guidance, and templates organized by assessment phase and topic:
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Policy frameworks set out the intent and interpretation of key sections of the Impact Assessment Act (the Act).
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Guidance documents provide support to project proponents and impact assessment practitioners on what is required under the Act and how the practitioners’ work informs the overall impact assessment process.
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Templates set out the information or studies that the Agency considers necessary for the conduct of an impact assessment when it issues a notice of commencement.
- Planning phase
- Indigenous participation and engagement
- Public participation
- Factors to consider in an impact assessment
- Guidance: Describing effects and characterizing extent of significance
- Summary of Guidance: Describing effects and characterizing extent of significance
- Health, social and economic effects (guidance)
- Policy framework for assessing cumulative effects under the Impact Assessment Act
- Impacts on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- "Need for", "purpose of", "alternatives to" and "alternative means"
- Sustainability (guidance)
- Incorporating Indigenous knowledge and working with Indigenous communities (guidance)
- Environmental obligations and climate change commitments (policy framework)
- Community knowledge (policy framework)
- Gender-based analysis plus (guidance)
- Decision
- Post-decision
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