§ 809. Agency administration and enforcement of the land use and\ndevelopment plan. 1. The agency shall have jurisdiction to review and\napprove all class A regional projects, including those proposed to be\nlocated in a land use area governed by an approved local land use\nprogram, and all class B regional projects in any land use area not\ngoverned by an approved and validly enacted or adopted local land use\nprogram.\n All projects shall be reviewed and acted upon as expeditiously as\npractical. In particular, to facilitate the review of minor project\napplications, the agency shall develop simplified application forms to\ndeal with such projects, and will comply with the special procedures for\nsuch projects set forth in this section. For the purposes of this\nsection, "minor project" shall mean any individual single family\ndwelling or mobile home or any subdivision involving two lots, parcels\nor sites.\n 2. a. Any person proposing to undertake a class A regional project in\nany land use area, or a class B regional project in any land use area\nnot governed by an approved and validly enacted or adopted local land\nuse program, shall make application to the agency for approval of such\nproject and receive an agency permit therefor prior to undertaking the\nproject. Such application shall be filed in such form and manner as the\nagency may prescribe. The agency shall, upon receipt of such\napplication, provide notice of receipt of the application and a brief\ndescription of the project to the Adirondack park local government\nreview board, the chairman of the county planning board, if any, of the\ncounty wherein the project is proposed to be located, to the chairman of\nthe appropriate regional planning board, and to the chief elected\nofficer, clerk and planning board chairman, if any, of the local\ngovernment wherein such project is proposed to be located. The agency\nshall, upon request, furnish or make a copy of the application available\nto the review board or to the officials listed in this paragraph.\n b. On or before fifteen calendar days after the receipt of such\napplication the agency shall notify the project sponsor by certified\nmail whether or not the application is complete. For the purposes of\nthis section, a "complete application" shall mean an application for a\npermit which is in an approved form and is determined by the agency to\nbe complete for the purpose of commencing review of the application but\nwhich may need to be supplemented during the course of review as to\nmatters contained in the application in order to enable the agency to\nmake the findings and determinations required by this section. If the\nagency fails to mail such notice within such fifteen-day period, the\napplication shall be deemed complete. If the agency determines the\napplication is not complete, the notice shall include a concise\nstatement of the respects in which the application is incomplete. The\nsubmission by the project sponsor of the requested additional\ninformation shall commence a new fifteen calendar day period for agency\nreview of the additional information for the purposes of determining\ncompleteness. If the agency determines the application is complete, the\nnotice shall so state.\n A notice of application completion shall not be required in the case\nof applications for minor projects which the agency determines to be\ncomplete when filed. Such applications shall be deemed complete for the\npurposes of this section upon the date of receipt.\n c. The project sponsor shall not undertake the project for a period of\nninety days, or in the case of a minor project, forty-five days,\nfollowing the date of such notice of application completion, or the date\nthe application is deemed complete pursuant to the provisions of this\nsection, unless a permit is issued prior to the expiration of such\nperiods.\n d. Immediately upon determining that an application is complete, the\nagency shall, except in relation to
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