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Please be advised that Bill 212 – Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024, received royal assent on November 25, 2024. This bill includes the Highway 413 Act<\/em>, which exempts Highway 413 from the Environmental Assessment Act (EAA) and creates a new process for assessing the environmental impacts of the Highway 413 project.\u00a0 This process involves the publication of a draft and final Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR), which will include a description of the studies completed, the assessment of impacts, proposed mitigation measures, and a record of consultation.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor information about the Highway 413 Act\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFran\u00e7ais\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please be advised that Bill 212 \u2013 Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024, received royal assent on November 25, 2024. This bill includes the Highway 413 Act, which exempts Highway 413 from the Environmental Assessment Act (EAA) and creates a new process for assessing the environmental impacts of the Highway 413 project…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nBill 212 - Highway 413<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Know how Highway 413 would save the people who use it up to 30 minutes each way. 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