10.—(1) If the ONR considers that an environmental statement should contain further information specified in Schedule 1, the ONR must notify the licensee in writing that further information is required.
(2) The notification must describe the further information required.
(3) The licensee must then provide the ONR with—
(a)the further information;
(b)a further publicity notice (see paragraph (4)); and
(c)a statement setting out the further newspaper publication date (see paragraph (5)).
(4) A further publicity notice is a notice setting out—
(a)the name of the licensee;
(b)the date on which the application for consent to carry out the project was made;
(c)the address or location of the site at which the proposed project is to be carried out;
(d)the further publicity period (see paragraph (6);
(e)that further information is available in relation to an environmental statement which has already been provided;
(f)that a copy of the further information may be inspected by members of the public during the further publicity period;
(g)an address (or addresses) in the locality of the power station or nuclear reactor at which the further information may be inspected;
(h)an address (or addresses) (whether or not the same as that given under sub-paragraph (g) above) in the locality of the nuclear reactor or power station at which copies of the further information may be obtained during the further publicity period;
(i)that copies may be obtained during the further publicity period there as long as stocks last;
(j)if a charge is to be made for a copy, the amount of the charge;
(k)that a copy of the further publicity notice and the further information will be published on the ONR’s website in accordance with regulation 10A(4) and (5);
(l)that any person wishing to make representations about the further information should make them in writing to the ONR at a specified address within the further publicity period.
(5) The further newspaper publication date—
(a)is the date on which the licensee proposes to first publish the further publicity notice in a newspaper (see paragraph (8)); and
(b)must fall within the period of 14 days beginning with the date on which the publicity notice is provided to the ONR.
(6) The further publicity period is the period of not less than 30 days beginning with the further newspaper publication date.
(7) The ONR may require the licensee to provide the further information and further publicity notice in an electronic form.
(8) On the further newspaper publication date, the licensee must publish the further publicity notice—
(a)in one or more newspapers circulating in the locality in which the project is to be carried out; and
(b)in any other newspaper named by the ONR.
(9) The licensee must provide the ONR with a copy of the notice published under paragraph (8) within the period of 14 days beginning with the further newspaper publication date.
(10) The licensee must ensure that at the relevant address (or addresses) at all reasonable hours during the further publicity period—
(a)not less than 5 copies of the further information are available for inspection by members of the public during the further publicity period; and
(b)copies of the further information are available on payment of a reasonable charge reflecting printing and distribution costs.
(11) The ONR may by notice in writing require a licensee to produce such evidence as the ONR may reasonably require for the purpose of verifying any information in the licensee’s environmental statement.]
Textual Amendments
F1Regs. 9-10C substituted for regs. 9, 10 (6.8.2018) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/834), regs. 1(2), 11 (with reg. 22)
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