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SECTION 143*2
Hearing on application for a certificate
Public Service (PBS) CHAPTER 48, ARTICLE 8*
* § 143. Hearing on application for a certificate. 1. Upon the receipt
of an application complying with section one hundred forty-two, the
chairman shall promptly fix a date for the commencement of a public
hearing thereon not less than one hundred eighty nor more than two
hundred ten days after such receipt. The place of the hearings shall be
designated by the presiding examiner, except that hearings of sufficient
duration to provide adequate opportunity to hear direct evidence and
rebuttal evidence from residents of the area of the applicant's primary
proposed location for the major steam electric generating facility shall
be held in such area.

2. On an application for an amendment of a certificate proposing a
change in the facility likely to result in any material increase in any
environmental impact of the facility or a substantial change in the
location of all or a portion of such facility, a hearing shall be held
in the same manner as a hearing is held on an application for a
certificate. The commission shall promulgate rules, regulations, and
standards under which it shall determine whether hearings are required
under this subdivision and shall make such determination.

* NB Expired January 1, 1979

* NB Operative with regard to applications filed on or before December

31, 1978

* NB There are 2 § 143's