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Regulations
- Forest Practices Code of BC ActOPERATIONAL AND SITE PLANNING REGULATION
PART 7 - RANGE USE PLANS
Division 3 - Notice, Review and Comment
B.C. Reg. 107/98 Deposited April 2, 1998
O.C. 0426/98 effective June 15, 1998 (Consolidated to December 12, 2003)
- 56. (1) A
person who prepares a range use plan or an amendment to a range
use plan must, before the plan or amendment is approved or put
into effect, publish a notice, in a form acceptable to the
district manager, in a newspaper.
- (2) This section does not apply to a range use plan or amendment to which
section 43 or 44 of the Act applies.
- 57. (1) A holder of an agreement under the Range Act that is required to
publish a notice under section 56 must submit to the district manager a copy of the range
use plan or amendment in the form that will be made available for review and comment under
section 58
(a) at
substantially the same time as the first publication referred to
in section 56, or
(b) at any other time agreed to by the district manager and the holder of the agreement.
(2) A district manager may not approve a range use plan that is submitted under subsection
(1) until the requirements of section 58 have been met.
- 58. (1) A
person that publishes a notice under section 56 must provide, for
a period of at least 60 days from the date of the first
publication referred to in section 56, an opportunity for review
and comment to persons interested in or affected by operations
under the range use plan or amendment.
(2) Despite
subsection (1), the district manager may, with respect to a range
use plan or amendment, reduce the period of time for review and
comment to at least 30 days from the date of the first
publication referred to in section 56, if the district manager
determines that the shorter period would provide adequate
opportunity for review and comment by persons interested in or
affected by operations under the range use plan or amendment.
(3) An opportunity
for review and comment provided to an interested or affected
person under subsection (1) will only be adequate for the purposes
of that subsection if, in the opinion of the district manager, the
opportunity is commensurate with the nature and extent of that
person's interest in the area under the range use plan and any
right that person may have to use the area under the range use
plan.
(4) A person required to publish a notice under section 56 must review all comments
received during the period for public comment set out in the notice, and make any
revisions to the proposed range use plan or amendment that the person considers
appropriate.
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