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| (1) Upon receipt of an application for a permit to engage in a development activity within the Coastal Zone, the Director may require the applicant to furnish an environmental impact assessment relating to such development activity and it shall be the duty of the applicant to comply with such requirement. Every environmental impact assessment furnished under this section shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed. |
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| (2) The Director shall, on receipt of an environmental impact assessment furnished to him by an applicant in compliance with any requirement imposed on such applicant under subsection (1) "
| | (a) submit a copy of such assessment to the Council for its comments, if any ; and | | |
| | (b) by notice published in the Gazette, notify the place and times at which such assessment will be available for inspection by the public, and invite the public to make its comments, if any, thereon. | | |
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| (3)
| | (a) The Council shall, within sixty days of an environmental impact assessment being submitted to it under subsection (1), make its comments, if any. thereon to the Director. | | |
| | (b) Any member of the public may within thirty days of the date on which a notice under paragraph (b) of subsection (2) relating to such assessment is published in the Gazette make his comments, if any, thereon to the Director. | | |
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| (4) In deciding whether to issue a permit under section 14 authorizing a person to engage in a development activity within the Coastal Zone, the Director shall have regard to any comments made under subsection (3) on the environ mental impact assessment, if any, relating to such activity and any development projects commenced by the Urban Development Authority in any area declared to be an urban development area under the provisions of the Urban Development Authority Law, No. 41 of 1878. |
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| (5) The Director shall, within sixty days of the receipt by him of any comments made under subsection (3). make the decision referred to in subsection (4). |
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