ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS EVALUATION (EEE) SERVICES

Environmental consulting and/or consulting engineering firms to provide Environmental Effect Evaluation Services on an “as and when requested basis” at various locations within the National Capital Region (Ontario and/or Québec).

NCC may request, but is not necessarily limited to, the following consultant services under the resulting SOA:

1. Conducting Environmental Effects Evaluations under section 67 of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 (CEAA, 2012) and subsequent amendments to the Act;

2. Preparing the application material for the required municipal, provincial (ex., Loi sur la qualité de l’environnement (Québec), Development, Interface with Wetlands and Alterations to Shorelines and Watercourses Regulations (Ontario)), and federal environmental authorizations (ex. Fisheries Act or Species at Risk Act), and/or permits (including any other special permits that may be required) for the projects to proceed;

3. Conducting biological surveys (ex. provincial and federal species at risk and habitat, fauna, flora, migratory birds, fish habitat, wetlands, high water mark delineation, tree appraisal, Butternut health evaluation, Ecological Land Classification evaluation, ), following provincially and/or federally accepted methodologies;

4. Conducting environmental monitoring activities to ensure implementation of the mitigation measures listed in the environmental review and other permits and authorizations prior, during and after project completion;

5. Conducting follow-up programs to verify assumptions and effectiveness of mitigation measures and if adaptive management measures are required;

6. Preparing compensation plans for the loss of wetlands ecological functions and offsetting plans for adverse effects to species at risk and their critical habitat;

7. Conducting Strategic Environmental Assessments under the Cabinet Directive on the Environmental Assessment of Policy, Plan and Program Proposals;

8. Participating as an expert and providing material (i.e. information panels) for any public or aboriginal consultation activity related to the environmental review under CEAA requirements or strategic environmental assessment;

9. Preparation of ecological compensation plans (ex. trees, fish habitat, species at risk, wetlands.);

10. Recommendations of further investigations, if required, with all the associated costs;

11. Provide guidance and expertise with Federal and Provincial Regulation compliance; and

12. Provide environmental reports-Studies including maps- (in English in Ontario and in French in Quebec, as requested by the Project Manager (PM)).