Environment Canada's St. Lawrence Action Plan

	Area of Prime Concern
	Steps and Partners
	ZIP Committees
	ZIP Map
	Environmental Assessments

	ZIP Program Phases (ZIP: Zone d'intervention prioritaire — Area of Prime Concern)
	The partners have roles and responsibilities at each stage of the ZIP Program
	The Ecological Rehabilitation Action Plan (ERAP)
	Schedule for Environmental Assessments, Public Consultations and the Drafting of ERAPs

ZIP Program Phases

The Stages of the ZIP Program

•	The environmental knowledge assessments make up the first stage in the process. All drafted by the same federal-provincial team, these assessment reports constitute the basis for discussion of the second stage.
•	The public consultation, organized in each sector by the ZIP committee, is mainly used to identify the intervention priorities in the respective reaches of the St. Lawrence River.
•	The Ecological Remedial Action Plan, then drafted by the ZIP committee, coordinates the actions to be taken in accordance with the priorities identified in the consultation.
Stratégies Saint-Laurent assesses the public’s contribution to the program as being close to 100,000 hours of volunteer work.

The partners have roles and responsibilities at each stage of the ZIP program

Stages	Partners
Stages	Stratégies Saint-Laurent	ZIP Committee	Federal and provincial governments
Participation and consultation of riverside communities	Facilitate and approve the creation of autonomous, multisectoral advisory committees in each ZIP territory by providing the necessary technical and material assistance and co-ordinating the exchange of information.	Mobilize riverside communities to work toward the protection, rehabilitation, and reclamation of the St. Lawrence River; encourage the participation of local stakeholders and consult with them to identify actions aimed at restoring and conserving the St. Lawrence River.	Support the introduction and creation of ZIP Committees by offering the services of government personnel and providing information on a given territory.
Summary of knowledge	Help launch the regioinal assessment report and promote the ZIP program.	Host the launch and help distribute the report among stakeholders and riverside residents.	Jointly prepare the report and publicize it by organizing the launch.
Consultation	Help organize the public consultation meeting and update the guide to preparing public consultations.	Organize public consultation meetings and distribute the report; help define local priorities for action.	Present report findings to a public consultation meeting attended by government representatives.
Ecological Rehabilitation Action Plan (ERAP)	Prepare annual ERAP programming and update the guide to preparing ERAPs.	Prepare the ERAP in consultation with local stakeholders in compliance with the objectives of the guide to preparing ERAPs.	Provide scientific and technical support to the ZIP Committees preparing ERAPs.
Implementation of ERAP's	Assist ZIP Committees in searching for funding sources and in establishing partnerships; act as the liaison between ZIP Committees and governments, and prepare a guide to implementing ERAPs.	Identify needs in scientific and technical fields; prepare the ERAP in consultation with the stakeholders concerned; submit projects to funding programs.	Provide technical and scientific support to ZIP Committees and steer them toward funding programs.
Results follow-up and dissemination	Help define the analytical framework of results and identify indicators for their evaluation; disseminate the results of the ERAP's implementation.	Evaluate the economic and environmental spinoffs and the benefits to the community of carrying out the ERAP, and oversee monitoring of the ERAP by project partners and the community.	Monitor and disseminate the results obtained by partners; help define the analytical framework of results and identify indicators for their evaluation.

The Ecological Rehabilitation Action Plan (ERAP)

Schedule for Environmental Assessments, Public Consultations and the Drafting of ERAPS

	ZIP Committees (ZIP Map) (Coordinates)	ZIPs
1	Haut Saint-Laurent ZIP Committee	ZIP 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
2	Ville-Marie ZIP Committee	ZIP 5, 7, 8
3	Jacques-Cartier ZIP Committee	ZIP 9
4	Des Seigneuries ZIP Committee	ZIP 10
5	Lake Saint-Pierre ZIP Committee	ZIP 11
6	Les Deux Rives ZIP Committee	ZIP 12
7	Quebec City and Chaudières-Appalaches ZIP Committee	ZIP 13, 14
8	Sud-de-l'Estuaire ZIP Committee	ZIP 15, 16, 17
9	Alma-Jonquière ZIP Committee	ZIP 22
10	Saguenay ZIP Committee	ZIP 23
11	Rive nord de l'estuaire ZIP Committee	ZIP 18
12	Northern Gulf Coast ZIP Committee	ZIP 19
13	Chaleur Bay ZIP Committee	ZIP 20 B
14	Îles-de-la-Madeleine ZIP Committee	ZIP 21

	Name of the ZIP Committees and their foundation date	Study sectors	Dates of environmental assessments	Dates of public consultations	Dates of Ecological remedial action plans (ERAPs)
1	Haut-Saint-Laurent Created in June 1992 Incorporated 1993-11-27	(1 and 2) Lake Saint-François	1995-01-17	February 1995	June 1997
		(3 and 4) Valleyfield Beauharnois «Entre deux lacs»	1998-10-21	1998-11-13 and 14	June 2002
		(6) Lake Saint-Louis	1994-02-12	March 1994	April 1996
2	Ville-Marie Created 1995-02-02	(7 and 8)La Prairie Basins	May 1997	1997-06-06 and 07	March 1998
3	Jacques-Cartier Created in october 1994 Incorporated 1996-06-11	(9) Montreal, Longueuil	March 1995	May 1995	June 1997
4	Des Seigneuries Created in 1999	(10) Varennes- Contrecoeur	2000-12-11	2000-12-01 and 02
5	Lake Saint-Pierre Foundation 1992 Incorporated 1996	(11) Lake Saint-Pierre	December 1991	February 1992	May 1997
6	Les Deux Rives Created 1999-04-09	(12) Pointe-du-Lac Dechambault	2000-02-29	2002-03-18	October 2002
7	Québec and Chaudières- Appalaches Created in mai 1991	(14) Québec, Lévis	October 1995	November 1995	March 1998
7	Québec and Chaudières- Appalaches Created in mai 1991	(13) Portneuf- Lotbinière	October 1999	November 1999
8	Sud-de-l'Estuaire Créated 2000-04-25	(15, 16, 17)	2001-10-23 and 24	2001-11-16 and 17
9	Alma-Jonquière Created in mai 1995	(22) Saguenay	December 1996	February 1996	October 1998
10	Saguenay Created in december 1990	(23) Saguenay	December 1996	February 1996	February 1998
11	Rive nord de l'estuaire Created in january 1992	(18) From Tadoussac to the limit of Pointe-des-Monts (municipality of Baie-Trinité)	Regional assessment, July 1996
12	Côte-Nord du Golfe Created in March 1996	(19) Golf of the St. Lawrence	Regional assessment, June 1997	November 1997	March 1998
13	Baie des Chaleurs Created in December 1990	(20B) Baie des Chaleurs	Regional assessment, April 1997	1997-05-16 and 17	March 1998
14	Îles-de-la-Madeleine Created 1999-10-14	(21)	1999-05-07	1999-05-28 and 29	January 2002

* The Ecological Remedial Action Plans (ERAPS) will be drafted by the existing ZIP committees, or those wich will be eventually set up in those sectors.