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This section considers the purposes of CEAA 2012 which guides the process for assessing adverse environment effects, and evaluates how the purpose and justification of the Rook I Project fit within the context of an environmental assessment, pursuant to the purpose of CEAA 2012. [...] The Generic Guidelines for the Preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement—Pursuant to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 [the “Guidelines”] is a guiding document prepared by the CNSC to assist proponents with the preparation of an EIS in compliance with CEAA 2012.78 The Guidelines discuss the scope of the environmental assessment, and specifically discuss valued components (VCs). [...] It is also encouraged to take into account public comments when defining the spatial boundaries used in the EIS.”80 To ensure that the EIS provides an accurate representation of the potential environmental effects associated with the Rook I Project, CELA provides a series of recommendations and information requests that seek to fill gaps in the scoping of VCs, and the spatial and temporal boundari. [...] The applicant should clearly explain the method and definitions used to describe the level of the residual adverse effect (e.g., low, medium, high) for each of the criteria assessed.”84 CELA submits that claiming that the significance of changes in intermediate components can only be evaluated in the context of related influences to VCs, which are the ultimate receptors, is a narrow view that dimi. [...] d) Terrain and Soils [Intermediate Component]99 In the discussion of project activities that would have the potential to affect terrain and soils during the project lifespan, NexGen noted that “As the pathways associated with these activities100 do not have the potential to overlap with the pathways of the Fission Patterson Lake South Property, only the potential effects of the project were consid.