Section 883. Conceptual review

1.  The  office  at  the  request of the
  director may, at the request of any person proceeding in accordance with
  section eight hundred eighty-one of this article, provide  a  conceptual
  review  of  a  proposed business undertaking, project, or activity which
  may require multiple permits, which will take place in  phases  over  an
  extended  period  of time, or which will involve substantial expense for
  preparing detailed plans, specifications, and permit applications.  Each
  interested  state agency shall participate in the conceptual review; and
  the person shall provide such information in addition to  that  provided
  in  the  master  application  as  the  state  agencies  shall reasonably
  request.
    2. After consideration of the master application  and  any  additional
  information,  each  interested state agency shall render to the person a
  written conceptual review determination, which will provide an  official
  opinion  as  to  the  general  acceptability  of  the  proposed business
  undertaking, project, or activity and which will state all permits which
  such agency would require, the standards and conditions which would have
  to be met in order to obtain approval of such permits, and any  properly
  related circumstances or findings.
    3. Each interested state agency participating in the conceptual review
  shall render the written conceptual review determination within a period
  not  exceeding sixty days from the date fixed by the director, provided,
  however, that such period may be extended by the director at the request
  of an interested state agency  for  the  further  consideration  of  the
  master application and any additional information provided in accordance
  with  subdivision  one  of  this  section. The director shall advise the
  person having requested the conceptual review  of  such  extension,  the
  reasons  therefor,  and  the  revised  period  fixed by the director for
  rendering the conceptual review determination; and such person shall  be
  entitled to confer with the office and with any state agency having been
  granted  an  extension of time to ascertain what further information, if
  any, is required to facilitate the conceptual review determination.
    4. A conceptual review determination shall not relieve the person from
  the responsibility of  obtaining  any  required  permits  and  shall  be
  contingent  upon  the  submission of such detailed plans, specifications
  and information as may be required for permit applications. A conceptual
  review  determination  shall  remain  in  effect  indefinitely  for  the
  proposed  business undertaking, project, or activity as described in the
  master application and any additional information submitted as  part  of
  the   conceptual   review,   provided,   however,  that  if  new  permit
  requirements or related standards, over which  a  state  agency  has  no
  control  or  discretion  in  establishing  the  effective  date thereof,
  subsequently become effective, such new permit requirements or standards
  shall not be considered to have  been  part  of  the  conceptual  review
  determination.
    5.  The  office  shall  provide  in its rules for the procedures to be
  followed in the conduct of a conceptual review and shall coordinate  the
  delivery  of  conceptual  review determinations to the person, provided,
  however, that any state agency authorized to conduct a conceptual review
  under other provisions of law may, in consultation with the  person  and
  the  director, elect to follow such provisions with respect to rendering
  the conceptual review determination authorized by this section.
    * NB Authority of office terminated per § 893 December 31, 1995