We went over this too many times.

Per" letter of intent"

RI-DEM's "FINAL REVIEW" passed every thing that was later cited in the first half of the denial as a reason to denied.

"The purpose of this letter is to communicate the Department’s intent
to approve the license pursuant to R.I.G.L. 23-18.9-9 and this letter is not the issuance of the facility license at this time. Rather, it is the result of a final review of your application and the initiation of the statutorily mandated public hearing process"


http://dem.ri.gov/programs/benviron/waste/pn/...er-noi.pdf


It is hard to believe that RI-DEM was incompetent in offering their "FINAL REVIEW" of all the application without reviewing the cited items they later denied. So assuming the RI-DEM is competent all those cited items were all approved in the "FINAL REVIEW' before sending SNPW a letter of intent to approve.

The second half (the new law R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-19.17-2) of the denial did not exist at the time of the "intent to approve" was sent, therefore should not legally be cited as a reason to deny the project as it had no bearing of this pre-law project.

http://dem.ri.gov/programs/benviron/waste/med...071321.pdf

FINAL (review) definition

coming at the end of a series.
last, closing, finishing, concluding