The Public Gas Transporter Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 1999

Publicity for environmental statements

10.—(1) In any case where a public gas transporter has made an application to the Secretary of State for consent to the carrying out of proposed pipe-line works, accompanied by an environmental statement relating to those works, the following provisions of this regulation shall apply.

(2) The public gas transporter shall serve on the consultation bodies,

(a) a copy of the application for consent and the environmental statement; and

(b) 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 application and environmental statement were served on the body,

and he shall inform the Secretary of State in writing of the names and addresses of every such body on whom he has served copies, and the dates on which they were served, in each case no later than 7 days after the date of such service.

(3) The public gas transporter shall publish in two successive weeks in one or more local newspapers circulating in each area in which the proposed pipe-line works would be carried out a notice stating–

(a) his name and address and that he is an applicant for consent under these Regulations for proposed pipe-line works;

(b) the location and the nature of the proposed pipe-line works;

(c) that an environmental statement has been prepared and that a copy of it and of the application for consent may be inspected by members of the public at all reasonable hours;

(d) the address of the relevant planning authority premises referred to in paragraph (6) below at which those documents may be inspected and the latest date (being a date not less than 28 days after the date on which the notice is to be last published, whether pursuant to this paragraph or paragraph (4) below) on which they will be available for inspection;

(e) the address in Great Britain referred to in paragraph (5)(b) below at which copies of the application for consent and environmental statement may be obtained and that copies of the environmental statement may be obtained there and, subject to regulation 12 (charges) below, specifying the amount of any charge to be made for a copy of the statement; and

(f) that any person wishing to make representations in relation to the application should make them in writing to the Secretary of State by the date stated in accordance with sub-paragraph (d) above and specifying the address to which any such representations should be sent.

(4) The public gas transporter shall also publish a copy of the notice referred to in paragraph (3) above in the London or the Edinburgh Gazette, or in both of them, as appropriate, depending on the location of the proposed pipe-line works.

(5) The public gas transporter shall–

(a) at least 7 days before the date on which the notice referred to in paragraph (3) above is to be first published, whether pursuant to paragraph (3) or (4) above, supply free of charge to the relevant planning authority a copy of the application and environmental statement for the purposes of inspection by members of the public in accordance with paragraph (6) below and notify the authority of the intended date of first publication;

(b) make available at an address in Great Britain enough copies of the environmental statement to be likely to satisfy all reasonable demands for copies pursuant to paragraph (3)(e) above; and

(c) subject to sub-paragraph (b) above and to the receipt by the public gas transporter of any sum referred to in paragraph (3)(e) above, supply during the period referred to in paragraph (6) below to any person on request a copy of the environmental statement.

(6) The relevant planning authority shall make available premises at which copies of the application for consent and the environmental statement may be inspected by members of the public free of charge at all reasonable hours for a period commencing on the date of first publication notified to it by the public gas transporter in accordance with paragraph (5)(a) above and expiring on the date stated in accordance with paragraph (3)(d) above.

(7) The public gas transporter shall provide the Secretary of State with copies of each of the newspapers and Gazettes in which the notices referred to in paragraphs (3) and (4) above appeared in each case no later than 7 days after the date of publication of those newspapers or Gazettes.