(1) A consent authority must decline an application for a resource consent to which regulation 17(2) applies if the discharge to be permitted by the resource consent is likely to cause, at any time, the concentration of PM10 in the airshed to be above the straight line path.
(2) This regulation does not prevent an application declined under this regulation being decided under regulation 17C if that regulation applies to the application.
Regulation 17A: inserted, on 25 August 2005, by regulation 6 of the Resource Management (National Environmental Standards Relating to Certain Air Pollutants, Dioxins, and Other Toxics) Amendment Regulations 2005 (SR 2005/214).