Opinion ID: 691304
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Compliance with D.C. regulations

Text: 45 We do not reach the question whether anyone was required to submit the proposal to the MAHP, because the DCFMA-BZA in fact referred Turkey's plan to the MAHP. The plaintiffs' argument therefore reduces to an assertion that the DCFMA-BZA was required to wait for a determination by the MAHP before approving Turkey's proposal. 46 The FMA requires the DCFMA-BZA to make a final determination on a chancery proposal within six months of receiving an application. 22 U.S.C. Sec. 4306(c)(3). The DCFMA-BZA received Turkey's application on September 18, 1990 and referred it to the MAHP promptly on September 26. On March 15, 1991, only a few days before the six months had run, the DCFMA-BZA made its decision without having heard back from the MAHP. Nor is there any indication in the record that the MAHP was about to respond. For the DCFMA-BZA to have waited upon the MAHP would have been inconsistent with its statutory timetable and would have imported into the process just the sort of indeterminate delay that the FMA was meant to keep out of the process for approving chancery improvements. See H.R.Conf.Rep. No. 693 at 41 (seeking to establish an expeditious process which will avoid ... extensive and overlapping proceedings).