The Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2000

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Publicity for environmental statements

7.—(1) In any case where an environmental statement has been submitted to the Secretary of State in connection with an EIA application and the Secretary of State has notified the applicant that the application is to be allowed to proceed, the following provisions of this regulation shall apply.

[F1(2) The Secretary of State shall serve on the applicant a notice specifying those consultation bodies on whom the applicant is to serve the documents referred to in paragraph (3) below.]

(3) [F2The applicant shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable after the date of the notice referred to in paragraph (2) above, serve on each consultation body specified in that notice—]

(a)a copy of the EIA application in question (excluding any material which the applicant is not entitled to make available for public inspection or which the Secretary of State has agreed should not be made available for public inspection) and any plan submitted with it (unless he has already served those documents on the person concerned);

(b)a copy of the environmental statement [F3and any supplementary information] submitted in connection with the application; and

(c)a notice stating that representations may be made to the Secretary of State by a date specified in the notice which shall be at least [F430 days] after the date on which the environmental statement [F5and any supplementary information] was served on the person concerned,

and he shall notify the Secretary of State of the name of every person he has served under this paragraph, and of the dates of such service, in each case no later than 7 days after such date.

(4) The applicant shall—

(a)ensure that any notice which he is required to publish or serve under paragraph 3 of the First Schedule to the 1962 Act

[F6(i) satisfies the requirements of paragraph (5); and]

[F6(ii)is also published on a public website alongside electronic copies of the EIA application, environmental statement and any supplementary information which accompanied the statement;]

(b)make available for public inspection at an address in the locality in which the land to which the application relates is situated between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on business days during the public notice period a copy of—

(i)the application and any plan submitted with it (excluding any material which the applicant is not entitled to make available for public inspection or which the Secretary of State has agreed should not be made available for public inspection); and

(ii)the environmental statement [F7and any supplementary information] which accompanied it;

(c)make available at an address (whether or not the same as that referred to in sub-paragraph (b) above) in the locality in which the land to which the application relates is situated enough copies of the environmental statement [F8and any supplementary information] to be likely to satisfy all reasonable demands for copies pursuant to sub-paragraph (d) below; and

(d)subject to sub-paragraph (c) above and to the receipt by the applicant of any payment specified in accordance with paragraph (5)(d) below, supply during the public notice period to any person on request a copy of the environmental statement [F9and any supplementary information].

(5) A notice to which paragraph (4)(a) above applies, shall—

[F10(a)describe the application in question, state that it is accompanied by an environmental statement and any supplementary information and, where relevant, state that it is likely to have significant effects on the environment in [F11an EEA State];]

[F10(b)state that a copy of the application, any plan submitted with it, the environmental statement and any supplementary information may be inspected by members of the public;]

(c)give the address referred to in paragraph (4)(b) above at which the copy documents referred to in that paragraph may be inspected and the dates and times when they will be available for inspection;F12...

(d)give the address referred to in paragraph (4)(c) above at which copies of the environmental statement [F13and any supplementary information] may be obtained and state that copies of the environmental statement[F13and any supplementary information] may be obtained there, specifying, subject to regulation 9 below, the amount of any payment required to be tendered for the statement[F14;

(e)state that any person wishing to make representations in relation to the application should make them in writing and send them to the Secretary of State within the public notice period, and specify the address to which any such representations should be sent;]

[F14(f)set out the nature of possible decisions to be taken in response to the application;]

[F14(g)describe the circumstances in which the Secretary of State may require a public inquiry into the application pursuant to the 1962 Act;]

[F14(h)be published as soon as reasonably practicable after the Secretary of State serves notice on the applicant in accordance with paragraph (2) above; and]

[F14(i)set out the arrangements made for consulting the public pursuant to this regulation]

(6) The applicant shall provide the Secretary of State with copies of each of the newspapers and the Gazette in which the notices referred to in paragraph (4)(a) above appeared, in each case no later than 7 days after the date of publication of those newspapers and the Gazette [F15and also the address of the public website on which the notice was published in accordance with paragraph (4).]

Textual Amendments

F1Reg. 7(2) substituted (20.8.2007) by The Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1992), regs. 1, 7(a) (with reg. 12)

F2Words in reg. 7(3) substituted (20.8.2007) by The Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1992), regs. 1, 7(b)(i) (with reg. 12)

F3Words in reg. 7(3)(b) inserted (20.8.2007) by The Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1992), regs. 1, 7(b)(ii) (with reg. 12)

F4Words in Regulations substituted (16.5.2017) by The Offshore Petroleum Production and Pipe-lines (Environmental Impact Assessment and other Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/582), reg. 45 (with reg. 58)

F5Words in reg. 7(3)(c) inserted (20.8.2007) by The Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1992), regs. 1, 7(b)(iii) (with reg. 12)

F6Words in reg. 7(4)(a) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Offshore Petroleum Production and Pipe-lines (Environmental Impact Assessment and other Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/582), regs. 1, 51(a) (with reg. 58)

F7Words in reg. 7(4)(b)(ii) inserted (20.8.2007) by The Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1992), regs. 1, 7(c)(i) (with reg. 12)

F8Words in reg. 7(4)(c) inserted (20.8.2007) by The Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1992), regs. 1, 7(c)(ii) (with reg. 12)

F9Words in reg. 7(4)(d) inserted (20.8.2007) by The Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1992), regs. 1, 7(c)(iii) (with reg. 12)

F10Reg. 7(5)(a)(b) substituted (20.8.2007) by The Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1992), regs. 1, 7(d)(i) (with reg. 12)

F11Words in reg. 7(5)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Pipe-lines, Petroleum, Electricity Works and Oil Stocking (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1325), regs. 1(1), 5(7); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)