NOTE 2: (To Applicants or Potential Applicants): Pursuant to NRS 701A.360, the GOE director is required to hold a public hearing on any abatement application. Due to this fact, abatement applications that are before the GOE director are contested cases under Nevada's Administrative Procedures Act, NRS Chapter 233B. The Act prohibits members or employees of an agency assigned to render a decision or to make findings of fact and conclusions of law in a contested case from communicating, directly or indirectly, in connection with any issue of fact, with any person or party, nor, in connection with any issue of law, with any party or the party’s representative, except upon notice and opportunity to all parties to participate.