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he project; or (e) the federal minister, if the project is to be located wholly on settlement land and (i) the Governor in Council or a federal independent regulatory agency has the power to issue an authorization that is required for the project to be undertaken, or (ii) a federal independent regulatory agency has received an application for financial assistance for the project. ( décisionnaire ) decision document means a decision document issued by a decision body under section 75, 76 or 77. ( décision écrite ) designated office means an office maintained under subsection 22(1). ( bureau désigné ) effects monitoring means the monitoring of environmental and socio-economic effects, or of the effectiveness of mitigative measures. ( mesures de contrôle ) environment means the components of the Earth and includes (a) air, land and water; (b) all layers of the atmosphere; (c) all organic and inorganic matter and living organisms; and (d) the interacting natural systems that include the components referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c). ( environnement ) executive committee means the executive committee of the Board established by section 8. ( comité de direction ) existing project means an activity that has been undertaken or completed and that, if proposed to be undertaken, would be subject to assessment under section 47. ( ouvrage ) federal agency means a minister of the federal government or a person or body carrying out a function of government under a federal law other than the Yukon Act , the Yukon First Nations Self-Government Act or the Yukon First Nations Land Claims Settlement Act , but does not include the Governor in Council, an independent regulatory agency or the Yukon Surface Rights Board. ( autorité fédérale ) federal decision body , in relation to a project, means a decision body referred to in any of paragraphs (c) to (e) of the definition decision body . ( décisionnaire fédéral ) federal independent regulatory agency means any body named in Part 1 of the schedule. ( organisme administratif autonome fédéral ) federal minister means the Minister of Northern Affairs, unless another member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada is designated by the Governor in Council as the federal minister for the purposes of this Act. ( ministre fédéral ) fee simple settlement land means land that is, or is to be treated as, fee simple settlement land, as referred to in the definition settlement land . ( terres désignées en fief simple ) final agreement means a final agreement within the meaning of the Yukon First Nations Land Claims Settlement Act or the agreement contained in Appendix C to the Gwich’in Agreement. ( accord définitif ) financial assistance means a payment, loan or loan guarantee, but does not include (a) a refund, remission, reduction or deferral, or any other form of relief from the payment, of a tax, duty or fee, other than relief provided by law to permit the undertaking of an activity specifically named in the law; (b) assistance for anything done preliminary to a project, such as a feasibility study, that does not have effects on the environment; or (c) assistance for an environmental or socio-economic study undertaken in relation to the assessment of a project, except a study that itself comprises a project. ( aide financière ) first nation means a Yukon First Nation, within the meaning of the Umbrella Final Agreement, and includes the Gwich’in Tribal Council, in relation to consultation, or the Tetlit Gwich’in, in relation to any other matter. ( première nation ) first nation law means a law enacted by a first nation in accordance with the Yukon First Nations Self-Government Act or the first nation’s final agreement. ( texte législatif d’une première nation ) government agency means a federal agency or a territorial 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 Tr