Follow-up report to the Standing Committee on the Canadian Environmental Protection Act

Official title: Follow-up report to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development on the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999

Submitted by the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Minister of Health to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development on June 29, 2018

Cat. No.: En4‑334/2018E‑PDF
ISBN: 978‑0‑660‑27060‑9

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Table of contents

1. Introduction
2. Engagement on changes to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
3. Controlling toxic substances and living organisms
   • 3.1 The Chemicals Management Plan
   • 3.2 Chemicals management after 2020
   • 3.3 Information gathering
     • 3.3.1 Information gathering provisions
     • 3.3.2 Information and knowledge sharing with other jurisdictions
   • 3.4 Risk assessment
     • 3.4.1 Persistence and bioaccumulation
     • 3.4.2 Endocrine disrupting chemicals and low-dose effects
     • 3.4.3 Vulnerable populations, cumulative effects and monitoring
     • 3.4.4 Identifying new priorities for assessment
   • 3.5 Risk management
     • 3.5.1 Response to addition to schedule 1
     • 3.5.2 Virtual elimination of persitent, bioaccumulative, and toxic substances and reverse burden for substances of very high concern
     • 3.5.3 Life-cycle management
     • 3.5.4 Informed substitution
   • 3.6 Other recommendations
     • 3.6.1 Electromagnetic radiation
     • 3.6.2 Best placed act
     • 3.6.3 Environmental performance agreements
     • 3.6.4 The process for addition to schedule 1
     • 3.6.5 Maintaining the domestic substances list
     • 3.6.6 Animate products of biotechnology
4. Addressing air pollution and greenhouse gases
   • 4.1 Vehicle and engine emissions
     • 4.1.1 Temporary importations
     • 4.1.2 Improved notice of defect regime
   • 4.2 Fuels
   • 4.3 Air quality management
   • 4.4 Other air quality-related recommendations
     • 4.4.1 Products that may release a substance
     • 4.4.2 Hot spots
     • 4.4.3 Auctioning of tradeable units
5. Environmental rights
   • 5.1 A substantive right to environmental quality
   • 5.2 Procedural environmental rights
   • 5.3 National Pollutant Release Inventory reporting
   • 5.4 Environmental justice
6. Government operations and federal and Aboriginal land
   • 6.1 Engagement
7. Delivering important environment and health protection programs
   • 7.1 Hazardous waste
   • 7.2 Enforcement
     • 7.2.1 Environmental Violations Administrative Monetary Penalties Act
     • 7.2.2 Access to enforcement information and public participation
     • 7.2.3 Enforcing CEPA
   • 7.3 Pollution prevention
8. Modernization and streamlining
   • 8.1 Intergovernmental cooperation
     • 8.1.1 Administrative agreements
     • 8.1.2 Equivalency agreements
     • 8.1.3 Cooperation with Indigenous governments
   • 8.2 Administration
   • 8.3 Miscellaneous
9. Conclusion

• Annex: Recommendations of the House of Commons Standing Committee on environment and sustainable development and location in this report