Under the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act, the responsible authority, the federal agency responsible for permitting drilling in the Beaufort Sea, is the National Energy Board. Those amendments, as you can see from them, will consolidate in our agency the responsibility to do comprehensive studies, except for the projects that are regulated by the National Energy Board or the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, for which it's basically the status quo. They were already responsible for managing the environmental assessments of the projects they're regulating, and even if these amendments are passed and come into force, they will continue to be the ones responsible for the management of those assessments.
On May 5th, 2010. See this statement in context.