Section R18-1-503. Administrative Completeness Review Time- frame Operation; Administrative Completeness

A.      The administrative completeness review time-frame for an application begins on the day of Department receipt of the first component submittal in support of the application that contains all the following:

1.        Identification of the applicant.

2.        If the license is for a facility, identification of the facility.

3.        Name and mailing address of the applicant and, if applicable, the applicant’s agent authorized by the applicant to receive all notices issued by the Department under this Article.

4.        Identification of the license category in which the application shall be first processed. If companion categories are shown on a license table for this license, the application shall be first processed in the companion category that is determined as follows:

a.         If “standard” and “complex” categories are shown, in the “standard” category.

b.        If “without a public hearing” and “with a public hearing” are shown, in the “without a public hearing” category.

c.         If “without a public meeting” and “with a public meeting” are shown, in the “without a public meeting” category.

5.        Completed Department application form if required for the license category.

6.        Initial fee if required for the license category.

7.        All application components required by statute or rule necessary for the Department to determine whether an application is administratively complete.

B.       The administrative completeness review time-frame for an application ends on the earlier of the following days:

1.        The day the Department notifies the applicant that the application is administratively complete under A.R.S. § 41-1074.

2.        If the Department does not notify the applicant that the application is administratively complete under A.R.S. § 41-1074, the last day shown for the administrative completeness review time-frame for the relevant license category on the license tables.

C.      If a notice of administrative deficiencies states that the Department is suspending the running of days within the time-

frames until the applicant supplies the missing information identified on a comprehensive list of specific deficiencies included with the notice, the running of days within the administrative completeness review time-frame suspends on the day of notification.

D.      If suspended, the running of days within the administrative completeness review time-frame remains suspended from the time of the first notice under subsection (C) of this Section until the applicant supplies the Department all missing information identified on the comprehensive list of specific deficiencies.

E.       If the Department determines that an applicant has submitted all application components required by statute or rule within the administrative completeness review time-frame and necessary to allow the Department to grant the license, the Department shall notify the applicant that the application is administratively complete under A.R.S. § 41-1074.

F.       If presumptive administrative completeness occurs:

1.        Further notices of administrative deficiencies issued under subsection (C) of this Section will not suspend the running of days within the substantive review or overall time-frames and

2.        The Department does not waive the requirement for the applicant to submit all application components necessary to allow the Department to grant the license.

G.      The running of days within the administrative completeness review time-frame also suspends and resumes under R18-1- 518 (emergencies).

Historical Note

New Section adopted by final rulemaking at 5 A.A.R. 3343, effective August 13, 1999 (Supp. 99-3). Amended by final rulemaking at 13 A.A.R. 1854, effective June 30, 2007 (Supp. 07-2).