§22-28-17. Review of plans and specifications.

(a) The commission may require that notice be given to the director prior to the undertaking of the construction, installation or establishment of particular types or classes of new air contamination sources specified in its rules and regulations. Within 15 days of its receipt of such notice, the director may require, as a condition precedent to the construction, installation or establishment of the air contaminant source or sources covered thereby, the submission of plans, specifications and such other information as it deems necessary in order to determine whether the proposed construction, installation or establishment will be in accord with applicable rules and regulations in force pursuant to this chapter. If, within 60 days of the receipt of plans, specifications or other information required pursuant to this section, the director determines that the proposed construction, installation or establishment will not be in accord with the requirements of this chapter or applicable rules and regulations, he shall issue an order prohibiting the construction, installation or establishment of the air contaminant source or sources. Failure of such an order to issue within the time prescribed in this section shall be deemed a determination that the construction, installation or establishment may proceed, provided that it is in accordance with the plans, specifications or other information, if any, required to be submitted.

(b) In addition to any other remedies available on account of the issuance of an order prohibiting construction, installation or establishment, and prior to invoking any such remedies, the person or persons aggrieved thereby shall, upon request in accordance with rules of the commission, be entitled to a hearing on the order. Following such hearing, the order may be affirmed, modified or withdrawn.

(c) For the purposes of this chapter, addition to, or enlargement or replacement of an air contaminant source, or any major alteration therein, shall be construed as construction, installation or establishment of a new air contaminant source.

(d) Any features, machines and devices constituting parts of, or called for by, plans, specifications or other information submitted pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall be maintained in good working order.

(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the commission to require the use of machinery, devices or equipment from a particular supplier or produced by a particular manufacturer if the required performance standards may be met by machinery, devices or equipment otherwise available.

(f) The absence or failure to issue a rule, regulation or order pursuant to this section shall not relieve any person from compliance with any emission control requirements or with any other provision of law.

(g) The commission, by rule or regulation, may prescribe and provide for the payment and collection of reasonable fees for the review of plans and specifications required to be submitted pursuant to this section. All such fees, when collected, shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the account of the Division of Air Pollution Control of the State Department of Health.

(Acts 1971, No. 769, p. 1481, §8.)