Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 75. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

CHAPTER 20. MAJOR FACILITY SITING

Part 2. Certification Proceedings

Certain Electric Transmission Lines -- Verification Of Requirements

75-20-208. Certain electric transmission lines -- verification of requirements. (1) Prior to constructing a transmission line under 75-20-104(10)(a)(ii), the person planning to construct the line shall provide to the department within 36 months of the date of the public notice provided under 75-20-207, unless extended by the department for good cause:

(a) copies of the right-of-way agreements or options for a right-of-way containing sufficient information to establish landowner consent to construct the line; and

(b) sufficient information for the department to verify that the requirements of 75-20-104(10)(a)(ii) are satisfied.

(2) The provisions of 75-20-104(10)(a)(ii) do not apply to any facility for which public notice under 75-20-207 has been given but for which the requirements of subsection (1) of this section have not been complied with.

History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 597, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 216, Ch. 418, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 537, Ch. 546, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 329, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 293, L. 2001; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 447, L. 2019; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 13, L. 2021.