The act has always provided for criminal sanctions: indictment or summary conviction with substantial fines. The NEB does not do that directly; it would do that through Justice.
The bill gives the NEB administrative monetary penalties. This is a new tool. These are designed to encourage compliance. In our compliance ladder, which ranges from requesting compliance and ends with asking them to shut down their facility or criminal prosecution, the administrative monetary penalties would provide a fairly rapid way of imposing a fine on someone who violated the act or a term or condition of an approval.