§ 29-0503. State agency actions on licenses, permits, or approvals for\n low-level radioactive waste management facilities.\n 1. With respect to any particular permanent disposal facilities, all\napplications for state licenses, permits, or other approvals required\nfor those facilities shall be submitted contemporaneously to the\nrespective state agencies with jurisdiction to grant such licenses,\npermits, or other approvals; and shall be accompanied by a draft\nenvironmental impact statement for those facilities and a list\nidentifying each state license, permit, or other approval for which such\napplications have been submitted and the jurisdictional state agency for\nsuch license, permit, or other approval.\n 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all applications to a\nsingle state agency for required state licenses, permits, or other\napprovals for particular low-level radioactive waste management\nfacilities shall be consolidated by such state agency and considered in\na single proceeding, which shall be completed as expeditiously as\npossible.\n 3. All state agencies to which applications for required licenses,\npermits, or other approvals for particular low-level radioactive waste\nmanagement facilities have been submitted shall keep each other informed\nof the procedural status of such applications and the proceedings\nthereon.\n 4. With respect to the proceedings on applications for required state\nlicenses, permits, and other approvals for particular low-level\nradioactive waste management facilities:\n a. If any such license, permit, or other approval for the particular\nlow-level radioactive waste management facilities in question is within\nthe jurisdiction of the department, the department shall be the lead\nagency with respect to environmental review of all applications to state\nagencies for such licenses, permits, or other approvals.\n b. No later than thirty days after submission to the lead agency and\nother state agencies of such applications, the lead agency and each such\nother state agency shall give notice to the applicant that such\napplications within their respective jurisdictions have been determined\nto be complete or have been determined to be incomplete; provided,\nhowever, that when there is a requirement pursuant to federal law for a\ntentative determination or draft permit to be prepared prior to public\nnotice or hearing, the time within which the agency shall make its\ndetermination whether or not the application is complete shall be\nextended by thirty days. If any such application has been determined to\nbe incomplete, such notice shall include a detailed list of specific\ndeficiencies in such application.\n c. No later than sixty days after the lead agency and other\njurisdictional state agencies have made their respective determinations\nthat such applications within their respective jurisdictions are\ncomplete, the lead agency shall begin public hearings on the draft\nenvironmental impact statement and all other matters related to such\napplications. Any state agency, other than the lead agency, which\ndetermines to conduct public hearings with respect to any action or\nproceeding before it on such applications shall conduct such public\nhearings jointly with the public hearings conducted by the lead agency\nwith respect to such facilities. The department shall hold an issues\nconference prior to the commencement of the hearing. At least one\nhearing shall be held at a reasonably convenient location in the general\ngeographic vicinity of each of the proposed sites.\n d. No later than one hundred fifty days after the commencement of such\nhearings for any low-level radioactive waste management facilities, such\nhearings and the period for the receipt of any written comments,\narguments, or analyses with respect to matters raised in such hearings\nshall have been completed.\n e. No later than ninety days after completion of such hearings and the\nperiod for
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