The Ontario government has introduced new legislation and a draft regulation intended to reduce the regulatory burden and approvals process for some environmental approvals.
The Burden Reduction Act 2016, if adopted, would further streamline the environmental approvals process, permit the province to promulgate additional regulations related to the Environmental Activity and Sector Registry (EASR) and Environmental Compliance Approvals (ECAs) and also alter some of the powers of allow compliance inspectors to request documents by telephone rather than in person.
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