April 12, 2016, Introduced by Reps. Cole, Glenn, Runestad, Kelly and Aaron Miller and referred to the Committee on Energy Policy.
A bill to amend 1995 PA 30, entitled
"Electric transmission line certification act,"
by amending section 2 (MCL 460.562), as amended by 2004 PA 198.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) "Affiliated transmission company" means a person,
partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, or
its
successors or assigns, which that
has fully satisfied the
requirements to join a regional transmission organization as
determined
by the federal energy regulatory commission, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, is engaged in this state in the
transmission of electricity using facilities it owns that were
transferred to the entity by an electric utility that was engaged
in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity in
this state on December 31, 2000, and is not independent of an
electric utility or an affiliate of the utility, generating or
distributing electricity to retail customers in this state.
(b) "Certificate" means a certificate of public convenience
and necessity issued for a major transmission line under this act
or issued for a transmission line under section 9.
(c) "Commission" means the Michigan public service commission.
(d) "Construction" means any substantial action taken on a
route constituting placement or erection of the foundations or
structures supporting a transmission line. Construction does not
include preconstruction activity or the addition of circuits to an
existing transmission line.
(e) "Electric utility" means a person, partnership,
corporation, association, or other legal entity whose transmission
or distribution of electricity the commission regulates under 1909
PA 106, MCL 460.551 to 460.559, or 1939 PA 3, MCL 460.1 to
460.10cc.
460.11. Electric utility does not include a municipal
utility, affiliated transmission company, or independent
transmission company.
(f) "Independent transmission company" means a person,
partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, or
its
successors or assigns, that is engaged in this state or is
proposing to be engaged in the transmission of electricity using
facilities
it owns that have been divested to the entity by an
electric
utility that was engaged in the generation, transmission,
and
distribution of electricity in this state on December 31, 2000,
and
that is independent of an electric utility or not an
affiliate
of
the an electric utility
, generating or distributing electricity
to retail customers in this state.
(g) "Major transmission line" means a transmission line of 5
miles or more in length wholly or partially owned by an electric
utility, affiliated transmission company, or independent
transmission company through which electricity is transferred at
system bulk supply voltage of 345 kilovolts or more.
(h) "Municipality" means a city, township, or village.
(i) "Preconstruction activity" means any activity on a
proposed route conducted before construction of a transmission line
begins. Preconstruction activity includes surveys, measurements,
examinations, soundings, borings, sample-taking, or other testing
procedures, photography, appraisal, or tests of soil, groundwater,
structures, or other materials in or on the real property for
contamination. Preconstruction activity does not include an action
that permanently or irreparably alters the real property on or
across the proposed route.
(j) "Route" means real property on or across which a
transmission line is constructed or proposed to be constructed.
(k) "Transmission line" means all structures, equipment, and
real property necessary to transfer electricity at system bulk
supply voltage of 100 kilovolts or more.