An environmental assessment is something required for projects that have gone through a screening, that were a part of the designated project list. That's a list in the regulations. Clause 430 is a special federal stewardship clause that is for non-designated projects, so the process is going to be very different, and I'm hesitant to refer to it as an environmental assessment process, so as to avoid confusion with the one for designated projects.
First of all, we're talking about projects that are not on the designated list. These are the smaller ones. Suppose a federal authority has to make a decision on crop-grazing on agricultural land and has to provide a crop-grazing permit or some other type of permit for the use of that reserve land. That federal authority would get details from the proponent about the nature of the environmental effects. It would look at the duration of the effects, the intensity of the effects, and what those effects were in terms of federal interest—whether a fish habitat was disturbed, for example. Then it would have to determine if those effects were significant or not.
In our experience with screenings, we found that the vast majority of them did not generate significant adverse environmental effects, but it is possible that a smaller project on federal lands could generate significant effects. We've held the requirement high, so that if that project is to be approved in spite of those significant effects, that federal authority would have to go to cabinet to see if those effects were justified.