Drainage (Environmental Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Publicity for an environmental statement

7.  For regulation 6 there shall be substituted–

“Publicity for an environmental statement

6.   Where the Department has prepared an environmental statement in relation to any proposed drainage works, it shall–

(a) by notice published in the Belfast Gazette and at least two local newspapers announce the preparation of the statement and state that any person who wishes to make representations in relation to the likely environmental effects of the works to which the statement relates should make them in writing to the Department at the address specified in the notice within 28 days of the date of the publication of the notice in the Belfast Gazette;

(b) make available for inspection at an office of the Department or at some other convenient place, for a period of at least 28 days following the date of the publication of the notice in the Belfast Gazette, the details of the proposed drainage works and the environmental statement relating thereto, and ensure that a reasonable number of copies of the statement are made available;

(c) state in the notice referred to in sub-paragraph (a), the address and the times at which copies of the environmental statement may be inspected or obtained and, if a charge is to be made for a copy thereof under regulation 8(a), the amount of the charge; and

(d) at the same time as the notice referred to in sub-paragraph (a) is published supply copies of the statement to–

(i) the Drainage Council;

(ii) the district council of the district or, as the case may be, each district in which the proposed drainage works are situate; and

(iii) any other person who appears to it to have an interest in the matter.”.