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title: "Evidentiary hearing: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/evidentiary-hearing
description: "Evidentiary hearing: A hearing at which a body takes evidence before it decides. The NAACP and two local groups asked for one on the permanent Southaven permit."
---

# Evidentiary hearing

What does “Evidentiary hearing” mean?

Evidentiary hearingA hearing at which a body takes evidence before it decides. The NAACP and two local groups asked for one on the permanent Southaven permit. The hearing was set for 10 November 2026, and the permit stands in the meantime. *Chapter 9.*

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## Where the book uses it

- [Chapter 9 — The Price of Permission](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-9)Who gets to say yes or no to a campus: counties, air regulators, courts and legislatures, and what their permits, abatements and refusals cost in time and money.

## Where the record uses it

- Dated test [Chapter 12, Southaven’s calendar, due 31 December 2026](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests#2026-6)
- Person [Samsa, Shannon](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people#samsa-shannon)

## Related terms

- [Southaven](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/southaven)
- [NAACP](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/naacp)
- [Agreed order](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/agreed-order)
- [Catalytic controls](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/catalytic-controls)
- [Clean Air Act](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/clean-air-act)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/consent)
- [Injunction](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/injunction)
- [Mobile and temporary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/mobile-and-temporary)
- [Moot](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/moot)
- [Moratorium](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/moratorium)
- [Nitrogen oxides](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/nitrogen-oxides)
- [Nonroad engine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/nonroad-engine)

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- [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary)
- [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people)
- [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources)
- [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes)
- [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections)
- [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1)
- [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent)
- [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties)

*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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