Departmental Responsibilities: Costs Allocated

(a)Pursuant to § 61303 of this Article, the Department of Land Management (the Department) shall determine the names and addresses and properly serve or mail all required notices to all persons within the five hundred foot (500’) radius of the proposed project who will be affected thereby. As provided in § 61303 of this Article, the notices shall be served not less than ten

(10)calendar days before any public hearing is to be conducted. The five hundred foot (500’) radius shall be measured from the exterior boundary lines of the project, and not from the center.

(b)The Department shall charge the applicants with all costs incurred in carrying out the requirements of subsection

(a)of this section, and all costs and fees so collected shall be deposited in the Department’s operational funds to be expended for the Division of Planning as the Director of Land Management may determine.