(2) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations defining the Highway 407 lands for the purposes of this Act, but the lands described must meet the following requirements:
1. The lands must not exceed a width sufficient to accommodate 10 highway lanes, a median, and the additional lands required for infrastructure that is essential to the design, construction, use and safety of the highway constructed along the following route,
i. the route that was, on October 19, 1998, exempt or approved under the Environmental Assessment Act between,
A. the intersection of Highway 407 and the Queen Elizabeth Way in the City of Burlington, and
B. Highway 7 east of Brock Road in the Town of Pickering, and
ii. the route which may be approved under federal and provincial statutes after October 19, 1998 between the easterly end of the route described in clause (a) and Highway 35/115 and any approved highway connections with Highway 401. 1998, c. 28, s. 1 (2).