§ 36:56 — Review Required

I. A local land use board, as defined in RSA 672:7, upon receipt of an application for development, shall review it promptly and determine whether or not the development, if approved, reasonably could be construed as having the potential for regional impact. Doubt concerning regional impact shall be resolved in a determination that the development has a potential regional impact.
II. Each regional planning commission may, with public participation following the public posting of notice of the intent to develop guidelines, including notice published in a newspaper of general circulation in the planning region, develop guidelines to assist the local land use boards in its planning region in their determinations whether or not a development has a potential regional impact. The regional planning commission may update the guidelines as needed and provide them, as voted by the regional planning commissioners, to all municipalities in the planning region.
III. All proposed solid waste landfills shall be projects of regional impact and notice shall be made to all communities located within New Hampshire that are:
(a) Located within any watershed (as defined by the 8-digit Hydrologic Units from the National Hydrography Dataset 2011 and as may be from time to time amended) where such landfill may be proposed; and
(b) If outside the watershed, located within 10 miles of the boundaries of such proposed landfill location.

Legislative History

1991, 300:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1992. 2009, 194:1, eff. Sept. 11, 2009. 2024, 230:2, eff. Sept. 17, 2024.