If—
(a) a mining lease application is made; and
(b) before the making of that application, an application (the
"other application" ) was made for a geothermal lease or GHG lease (the
"other proposed lease" ) but not decided; and
(c) the other application had not been decided before the making of the mining lease application; and
(d) the other proposed lease would, if it were granted, be an overlapping authority (geothermal or GHG) for the proposed mining lease;the mining lease application must not be decided until the other application has been decided.