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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Panel consideration of substantive application - Opportunity for comment on substantive application

54: General provisions relating to invitations given under section 53

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“Rules for inviting comments on environmental applications”

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) must ask for comments on a substantive application when the panel tells them to. They will give you 20 working days from when they ask to send in your comments. The EPA will tell you how to see the application when they ask for comments.

If you’re part of an iwi authority and the EPA asks for your comments, you can share the application with hapū in the area it affects. You can also include what the hapū think when you give your comments to the panel.

No one is allowed to ask for more time to send in their comments. The EPA must get all comments by the date they set.

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Panel consideration of substantive application: Opportunity for comment on substantive application

54General provisions relating to invitations given under section 53

  1. The EPA must, at the panel's direction, specify in its invitation for comments under section 53 that the comments must be received by the EPA on behalf of the panel on a specified date that is 20 working days after the date on which the invitation is given.

  2. The invitation must include notice of the substantive application, with details as to how to access the application.

  3. An iwi authority invited to provide comments under section 53 may—

  4. share the substantive application for the approval with hapū whose rohe is in the area to which the substantive application relates; and
    1. choose to include comments from that hapū with the comments provided to the panel by the iwi authority.

      1. There is no right for any person to seek a waiver of the time limit for written comments to be received by the EPA.

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