Section Site 301.10 - Completeness Review and Acceptance of Applications for Energy Facilities(a) Upon the filing of an application for an energy facility, the committee shall forward to each of the other state agencies having permitting or other regulatory authority, under state or federal law, to regulate any aspect of the construction or operation of the proposed facility, a copy of the application for the agency's review as described in RSA 162-H:7, IV.(b) The committee also shall forward a copy of the application to the department of fish and game, the department of health and human services, the division of historical resources of the department of cultural resources, the natural heritage bureau, the governor's office of energy and planning, and the division of fire safety of the department of safety, unless any such agency or office has been forwarded a copy of the application under (a) above.(c) Upon receiving an application, the committee shall conduct a preliminary review to ascertain if the application contains sufficient information for the committee to review the application under RSA 162-H and these rules.(d) Each state agency having permitting or other regulatory authority shall have 45 days from the time the committee forwards the application to notify the committee in writing whether the application contains sufficient information for its purposes.(e) Within 60 days after the filing of the application, the committee shall determine whether the application is administratively complete and has been accepted for review.(f) If the committee determines that an application is administratively incomplete, it shall notify the applicant in writing, specifying each of the areas in which the application has been deemed incomplete.(g) If the applicant is notified that its application is administratively incomplete, the applicant may file a new and more complete application or complete the filed application by curing the specified defects within 10 days of the applicant's receipt of notification of incompleteness.(h) If, within the 10-day time frame, the applicant files a new and more complete application or completes the filed application, in either case curing the defects specified in the notification of incompleteness, the committee shall, no later than 14 days after receipt of the new or completed application, accept the new or completed application.(i) If the new application is not complete or the specified defects in the filed application remain uncured, the committee shall notify the applicant in writing of its rejection of the application and instruct the applicant to file a new application.N.H. Admin. Code § Site 301.10
Derived From Volume XXXVI Number 01, Filed January 7, 2016, Proposed by #10994, Effective 12/16/2015, Expires 12/16/2025.