Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act — Y-2.2 2
torial agency. ( autorité publique ) Gwich’in Agreement means the Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement between Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada and the Gwich’in as represented by the Gwich’in Tribal Council, signed on April 22, 1992 and approved, given effect and declared valid by the Gwich’in Land Claim Settlement Act , as that Agreement is amended from time to time in accordance with its provisions. ( accord gwich’in ) heritage resource means (a) a moveable work or assembly of works of people or of nature, other than a record only, that is of scientific or cultural value for its archaeological, palaeontological, ethnological, prehistoric, historic or aesthetic features; (b) a record, regardless of its physical form or characteristics, that is of scientific or cultural value for its archaeological, palaeontological, ethnological, prehistoric, historic or aesthetic features; or (c) an area of land that contains a work or assembly of works referred to in paragraph (a) or an area that is of aesthetic or cultural value, including a human burial site outside a recognized cemetery. ( ressources patrimoniales ) independent regulatory agency means any body named in the schedule. ( organisme administratif autonome ) interested person means any person or body having an interest in the outcome of an assessment, for a purpose that is not frivolous or vexatious, and includes (a) the Fish and Wildlife Management Board established under the Umbrella Final Agreement, in relation to a project that is likely to affect the management and conservation of fish or wildlife or their habitat; (b) the salmon subcommittee of the Fish and Wildlife Management Board, in relation to a project that is likely to affect the management and conservation of salmon or their habitat; and (c) a renewable resource council established under a first nation’s final agreement, in relation to a project that is likely to affect the management and conservation of fish or wildlife or their habitat within the traditional territory of that first nation. ( intéressé ) joint panel means a joint panel established by an agreement under section 67. ( comité mixte ) mitigative measures means measures for the elimination, reduction or control of adverse environmental or socio-economic effects. ( mesures d’atténuation ) non-settlement land means (a) land other than settlement land; (b) water lying on or flowing through land, including settlement land; or (c) mines and minerals, other than specified substances, in category B or fee simple settlement land or Tetlit Gwich’in Yukon land. ( terres non désignées ) panel of the Board means a panel established under subsection 65(1), paragraph 93(1)(a) or subsection 95(1), 103(1) or 105(1). ( comité restreint ) plan means any plan, program, policy or proposal that is not a project or existing project. ( plan ) project means an activity that is subject to assessment under section 47 or 48 and is not exempt from assessment under section 49. ( projet de développement ) proponent , in relation to a project or other activity, means a person or body that proposes to undertake it, or a government agency, independent regulatory agency, municipal government or first nation that proposes to require — under a federal or territorial law, a municipal by-law or a first nation law — that it be undertaken. ( promoteur ) self-government agreement has the same meaning as in the Yukon First Nations Self-Government Act . ( accord sur l’autonomie gouvernementale ) settlement land means land that is category A settlement land, category B settlement land or fee simple settlement land under a final agreement or under section 63 of the Yukon Surface Rights Board Act , or land that is to be treated as such by virtue of a self-government agreement, and includes Tetlit Gwich’in Yukon land, but does not include water or mines and minerals defined to be non-settlement land. ( terres désignées ) socio-economic effects includes effects on economies, health, culture,