Bill Text: MI HB4483 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Public utilities; electric utilities; certificate of public convenience and necessity; allow qualified transmission companies to obtain. Amends sec. 2 of 1995 PA 30 (MCL 460.562).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-20 - Referred To Second Reading [HB4483 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4483-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4483
April 19, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Cole, Glenn, Johnson and LaFave 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, is engaged
in
this state or proposes to be
engaged 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 has fully satisfied the
requirements to join a regional transmission organization, 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.
