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

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.

(2) The Secretary of State shall serve on the applicant concerned a notice specifying those persons on whom the applicant is to serve the documents referred to in paragraph (3) below, which persons shall include—

(a) the consultation bodies; and

(b) any other persons on whom environmental responsibilities are conferred by or under any enactment other than these Regulations who in the opinion of the Secretary of State are likely to be interested in the particular relevant pipe-line works.

(3) The applicant shall serve on each person notified to him under paragraph (2) above—

(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 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 28 days after the date on which the environmental statement 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 satisfies the requirements of paragraph (5) below;

(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 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 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.

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

(a) describe the application in question and state that it is accompanied by an environmental statement;

(b) state that a copy of the application, any plan submitted with it and the environmental statement 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; and

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

(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.