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Individuals, Aboriginal groups and not-for-profit organizations may apply for participant funding under the Regular Funding Envelope, providing they can demonstrate that they meet at least one of the following criteria: • have a direct, local interest in the project, such as living or owning property in the project area; • have community knowledge or Aboriginal traditional knowledge relevant to the environmental assessment; or • have expert information relevant to the anticipated environmental effects of the project. To be eligible for the Aboriginal Funding Envelope, Aboriginal groups must plan to engage in Aboriginal consultation activities with the federal government that are linked to the environmental assessment of a proposed project by means of comprehensive studies of major resource projects, review panels and joint review panels.
