Any qualified person desiring to conduct any type of exploration, recovery or salvage operations, in the course of which any resource may be removed, displaced, damaged or destroyed shall first make application to the Board, through the Director, for a permit to conduct such operations.
Applications shall be reviewed in chronological order of time and date stamp at regular meetings of the Board to determine completeness of application. Only complete applications will be deemed received by the Board.
If, upon review, the Board determines that further information is required of the permittee, the permittee shall be so informed. A permit application which is determined to be incomplete will lose priority status.
312 CMR 2.07