ACI publishes the Project Document and relevant project information for a thirty (30) calendar days review period while initiating a public and stakeholders’ consultation process. We pro-actively invites relevant stakeholder(s), including the members of the ACI Program Stakeholder Consulting Panel, to participate in the process. ACI may extend the period of public consultation if deemed necessary and/or appropriate.
All comments and questions from the public consultation are provided to the project proponent and the validation and verification body for review and response. The project proponent may consider adjusting or enhancing the project, if needed and appropriate, and is required to prepare and provide additional documents to support or respond to the public consultation questions. As well, the validation and verification body is required to consider all comments and questions from the public consultation and address them within the validation process.30