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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 commenting on big projects when the EPA asks for your opinion"

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When the EPA invites you to comment on a substantive application under section 53, they must tell you when your comments are due. You have 20 working days from the date the invitation is given to send in your comments. The EPA must receive your comments on behalf of the panel by the specified date.

The invitation includes information about the substantive application and how you can access it. If you are an iwi authority, you can share the application with hapū in the area it affects and include their comments with yours.

You must send in your comments by the due date, as there is no way to get an extension on the time limit for written comments to be received by the EPA.

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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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