GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION
CHAPTER 53
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 113A-119(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b) Upon receipt of an
any application, a significant modification to an
application for a major permit, or an application to modify substantially a
previously issued major permit, the Secretary shall issue public notice of
the proposed development (i) by mailing a copy of the application, application
or modification, or a brief description thereof together with a statement
indicating where a detailed copy of the proposed development may be inspected,
to any citizen or group which has filed a request to be notified of the
proposed development, and to any interested State agency; (ii) by posting or
causing to be posted a notice at the location of the proposed development
stating that an application application, a modification of an
application for a major permit, or an application to modify a previously issued
major permit for development has been made, where the application or
modification may be inspected, and the time period for comments; and (iii)
by publishing notice of the application or modification at least once in
one newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties wherein the
development would be located at least 20 days before final action on a major
permit and at least seven days before final action on a permit under G.S.
113A-121 or before the beginning of the hearing on a permit under G.S.
113A-122. The notice shall set out that any comments on the development should
be submitted to the Secretary by a specified date, not to exceed less
than 15 days from the date of the newspaper publication of the notice. notice
or 15 days after mailing of the mailed notice, whichever is later. Public
notice under this subsection is mandatory. mandatory, except for a
proposed modification to an application for a minor permit or proposed
modification of a previously issued minor permit that does not substantially
alter the original project.
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of April, 1989.