Habitat Management Program HMP Renewal: The Environmental Process Modernization Plan EPMP May 1, 200

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Habitat Management Program (HMP)
RenewalThe Environmental Process Modernization
Plan(EPMP)May 1, 2006
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Overview
Background The EPMP Progress on
EPMP Change Management Conclusion

• Background
• The EPMP
• Progress on EPMP
• Change Management Strategy
• Conclusion

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Background
Background The EPMP Progress on
EPMP Change Management Conclusion

• DFOs Habitat Management Program (HMP) a key
  federal regulatory program with responsibility to
  conserve and protect fish and fish habitat from
  impacts of works and undertakings occurring in,
  with or around Canadian fresh and marine waters
  and in a manner consistent with the principles of
  sustainable development and smart regulations
• HMPs regulatory responsibilities founded on the
  Habitat Protection Provisions and related
  sections of the Fisheries Act and on requirements
  to apply the Species at Risk Act (SARA) and the
  Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA)
  with respect to regulatory decisions under these
  provisions.
• Delivery of HMPs regulatory responsibilities
  guided by the Policy for the Management of Fish
  Habitat and related operational policies

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Background contd
Background The EPMP Progress on
EPMP Change Management Conclusion

• Over the years, delivery of the HMP challenged
  by
• Increasing public concerns about decline/loss of
  fish and fish habitat due to impacts of human
  activities
• Demands for greater transparency, predictability,
  coherence, certainty and timeliness in
  decision-making
• Call for improved cooperation and coordination
  with other federal departments,
  provincial/territorial agencies and stakeholders
  programs
• Additional complexity and demands brought about
  by requirements to apply CEAA and SARA in making
  regulatory decisions under the Habitat Protection
  Provisions of Fisheries Act
• Increasing volume of works and undertaking
  referred (referrals) for regulatory reviews and
  environmental assessments as a result of rise in
  economic development

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The EPMP
Background The EPMP Progress on
EPMP Change Management Conclusion

• Environmental Process Modernization Plan (EPMP)
  launched in 2004 as a multi-year comprehensive
  continuous improvement plan to make HMP more
• Effective in the conservation and protection of
  fish and fish habitat from impacts of human
  activities
• Efficient, transparent, predictable and timely in
  delivery of its responsibilities and services
• Integrated with the responsibilities, interests
  and priorities of governments and other partners
  and stakeholders
• Aimed at aligning HMP delivery consistent with
  principles of sustainable development and smart
  regulations
• Identified as key priority in Departments
  Strategic Plan
• Provides sound basis for cooperation/collaboration
  with provinces, territories, industry, NGOs,
  municipalities and Aboriginal groups

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The EPMP contd
Background The EPMP Progress on
EPMP Change Management Conclusion

• Initial focus on five elements
• Risk Management Framework
• Streamlining Regulatory Reviews (Low Risk
  Referrals)
• Coherent and Predictable Decision-Making
• Improved Management of Environmental Assessments
  for Major Projects
• Enhanced Partnering
• Recently introduced a sixth element
• Habitat Compliance Modernization

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Progress on EPMP
Background The EPMP Progress on
EPMP Change Management Conclusion

• Risk Management Framework
• Developed Pathways of Effects (PoEs) to clarify
  cause and effect for most activities (deal with
  black box syndrome)
• Established a Risk Matrix to provide guidance on
  defining risks to fish habitat (sensitivity of
  fish habitat and significance of impacts of works
  and undertakings) and establishing management
  tools to apply to address low, medium, and high
  risk activities
• Developed guidance on applying risk management
  for staff (e.g. Guide on Risk Management)

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Progress on EPMP contd
Background The EPMP Progress on
EPMP Change Management Conclusion

• Streamlining Regulatory Review (Low-Risk
  Referrals)
• Tools developed to streamline low risk referrals
  (e.g. Operational Statements) so efforts can be
  re-allocated to higher priorities (deal with
  referral treadmill)
• Collaborating with Provinces and Territories on
  one-window delivery of regulatory reviews further
  to Canadian Council of Fisheries and Aquaculture
  Ministers (CCFAM) direction
• Working with national industry associations on
  integrating Risk Management Framework and its
  Pathways of Effects and the Operational
  Statements in industry best management practices
  (BMPs)

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Progress on EPMP contd
Background The EPMP Progress on
EPMP Change Management Conclusion

• Improved Coherence and Predictability in
  Decision-Making
• Standard Operating Policy Manual for staff
• Mandatory National Training Program
• New National Governance Structure
• Performance Measures

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Progress on EPMP contd
Background The EPMP Progress on
EPMP Change Management Conclusion

• Environmental Assessment and Major Projects
  (EAMP)
• New organizational structure and positions for EA
  and MP
• Sign-off Protocol (increased accountability) for
  decisions related to Major Projects
• Scoping and triggering policies for applying CEAA
  to Fisheries Act regulatory decisions
• Improved timelines, predictability and
  effectiveness in decision making for major
  projects
• Enhanced harmonization of EA processes within
  Federal government and across other levels of
  government

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Progress on EPMP contd
Background The EPMP Progress on
EPMP Change Management Conclusion

• Partnering
• MOUs with NS, PEI, Manitoba, BC
• Aboriginal Inland Habitat Program (AIHP)
• MOU with Canadian Electricity Association (CEA)
  and Agreement with seven National Resource
  Industry Associations (NRIA)
• Discussions with Coalition of Conservation NGOs
  and Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM)
  on partnering arrangements
• Habitat Compliance Modernization
• Recognizes need to modernize approach and
  establish new instruments and tools to improve
  compliance with the Habitat Protection Provisions
  of the Fisheries Act and to better measure
  results achieved

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Progress on EPMP contd
Background The EPMP Progress on
EPMP Change Management Conclusion

• Habitat Compliance Modernization (HCM)
  introduces
• A new approach to achieve compliance with the
  habitat protection provisions of the Fisheries
  Act through a new innovative Habitat Compliance
  Model that applies a continuum of activities from
  education to monitoring and auditing to
  administrative measures and tools for low and
  medium risks violations to prosecutions for high
  risks violations (see figure on Habitat
  Compliance Continuum)
• Improved measurement of results in applying the
  Habitat Compliance Model by
• monitoring compliance with and effectiveness of
  mitigation and compensation requirements
  established under the habitat protection
  provisions of the Fisheries Act
• monitoring the health and status of fish habitat
  at the ecosystem level to assess cumulative
  impacts

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Progress on EPMP contd
Background The EPMP Progress on
EPMP Change Management Conclusion

• Clarifying roles and responsibilities between HMP
  and CP and other regulatory agencies for
  delivery of compliance activities through
  protocols
• Additional resources allocated to HMP to
  strengthen its capacity for implementing the
  Habitat Compliance Model and in particular for
  monitoring compliance and effectiveness

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Habitat Compliance Model

Background The EPMP Progress on
EPMP Change Management Conclusion
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Change Management Strategy
Background The EPMP Progress on
EPMP Change Management Conclusion

• EPMP represents significant change for employees
  nature, volume and pace of change required a
  Change Management Strategy
• Vision and Mission Statements
• National and Regional EPMP Implementation Plans
• Performance Measurement
• Internal and External Communications Plan

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Conclusion
Background The EPMP Progress on
EPMP Change Management Conclusion

• EPMP represents a major opportunity to address
  challenges in delivery of HMP so as to make it
  more relevant and credible to Canadians and
  better aligned with principles of sustainable
  development and smart regulation by
• Providing for better protection of fish and fish
  habitat that Canadians value from the adverse
  impacts of works and undertakings
• Making more efficient use of resources in
  delivery of its responsibilities and in providing
  services to Canadians
• Establishing more clear, transparent and
  understandable rules and decision-making
  processes
• Providing definitive, up-front information for
  proponents on low risk activities

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Conclusion contd
Background The EPMP Progress on
EPMP Change Management Conclusion

• Establishing more meaningful engagement of
  partners and stakeholders that reflect shared
  responsibility for the resource and better
  aligned with their responsibilities, interests
  and priorities
• Improving the management of the environmental
  assessment of major projects
• Using modern and innovative approaches and tools
  for achieving compliance
• Enhancing the measurement and reporting of
  results achieved through improved monitoring at
  the project and ecosystem level
• The most up-to-date information can be found at
  the DFO
• Canadian Waters Internet Site
• http//www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/canwaters-eauxcan/index_
  e.asp