No permit shall be issued by the Division of Environmental Quality or the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission for any commercial hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility unless thirty (30) days' advance notice of a hearing has been placed in the largest newspaper published in the county in which a commercial hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility or facilities are located or proposed to be located, as well as published in the largest newspaper published in the adjoining counties. If there is no newspaper published in any of the counties so affected, the notice shall be published in the newspaper having the largest circulation in the county.
Ark. Code § 8-7-217