[F1Publicity: newspapersU.K.
9.—(1) Within 7 days of providing the ONR with an environmental statement pursuant to regulation 5, the licensee must provide the ONR with—
(a)a publicity notice (see paragraph (2)); and
(b)a statement setting out the newspaper publication date (see paragraph (3)).
(2) A publicity notice is a notice setting out—
(a)the name and address of the licensee and that the licensee is the applicant in respect of a consent for a project;
(b)the date on which the application was made;
(c)the address or location of the site at which the proposed project is to be carried out;
(d)the publicity period (see paragraph (4));
(e)that a copy of the application together with a copy of the environmental statement may be inspected at all reasonable hours by members of the public during the publicity period;
(f)an address (or addresses) in the locality of the power station or reactor at which those documents may be inspected;
(g)an address (or addresses) (whether or not the same as that given under sub-paragraph (f) above) in the locality of the power station or reactor at which copies of the environmental statement may be obtained during the publicity period;
(h)that during the publicity period copies may be obtained there so long as stocks last;
(i)if a charge is to be made for a copy, the amount of the charge;
(j)that any person wishing to make representations about the application should make them in writing to the ONR at a specified address within the publicity period;
(k)that a copy of the publicity notice and the information referred to in regulation 9A(1) will be published on the ONR’s website in accordance with regulation 9A; and
(l)that the project is subject to an environmental impact assessment procedure.
(3) The newspaper publication date—
(a)is the date on which the licensee proposes to first publish the publicity notice in a newspaper (see paragraph (6); and
(b)must fall within the period of 7 days beginning with the date on which the publicity notice is provided to the ONR.
(4) The publicity period is the period of not less than 30 days beginning with the newspaper publication date.
(5) The ONR may require the licensee to provide the publicity notice in an electronic form.
(6) On the newspaper publication date, the licensee must publish the 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.
(7) The licensee must provide the ONR with a copy of the notice published under paragraph (6) within the period of 14 days beginning with the newspaper publication date.
(8) The licensee must ensure that at the relevant address (or addresses) at all reasonable hours during the publicity period—
(a)not less than 5 copies of the application for consent to carry out a project together with 5 copies of the environmental statement are available for inspection by members of the public; and
(b)copies of the environmental statement are available on payment of a reasonable charge reflecting printing and distribution costs.]
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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