NAC701A.560. Procedure upon receipt of application; provision of copies to local governments; amended application following substantive change.

     1. The Director will assign an application filing number to an applicant not later than 2 business days after the Director receives the completed application. The application filing number must appear on all correspondence and other documents related to the application which are submitted by the applicant to the Director.

     2. The application filing number of an application expires if the application is rejected by the Director.

     3. Upon receipt of an application, the Director will review the application for timeliness and completeness. An application is timely filed if the Director receives a completed application on or before the date on which commercial operation of the facility will commence. If the Director determines that an application is not timely filed and the Director determines that the application was filed in bad faith or that the timing of the filing frustrates the purposes of NAC 701A.500 to 701A.660, inclusive, the Director may reject the application. If the Director rejects an application pursuant to this subsection, the Director will provide written notice of the rejection to the applicant. The Director is not required to expedite the processing of any application which is not timely filed. If the Director determines that an application is incomplete, the Director will provide written notice to the applicant that the application is incomplete and will identify in the notice the information which is necessary to complete the application. An applicant shall, not later than 10 business days after the receipt of a notice that an application is incomplete, provide to the Director the information necessary to complete the application. If the applicant does not provide the information within the specified period, the Director will reject the application and provide written notice of the rejection to the applicant.

     4. After submitting an application pursuant to NAC 701A.555, the applicant may submit a copy of the application to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the project or facility is proposed for location.

     5. In addition to the requirements of subsection 3 of NRS 701A.360, the Director will provide a copy of the application to the governing body of each city or town in which the project or facility is proposed for location.

     6. An applicant shall, not later than 15 business days after any substantive change to the information provided in an application, submit an amended application. The Director will provide a copy of the amended application in accordance with subsection 5 of this section and subsection 3 of NRS 701A.360.

     (Added to NAC by Nev. Energy Comm’r by R094-10, eff. 8-13-2010; A by Office of Energy by R065-13, 2-26-2014)