House of Representatives

HB 2040

power transmission; committee; procedures

Sponsors: Hatch-Miller, Anderson, Brimhall, et al

 

S/eDPA

Committee on Energy Utilities and Technology

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Caucus and COW

 

 

As Passed the House

 

 

 

History

 

Currently, utilities planning to construct power transmission lines in the state of Arizona must file a ten-year plan with the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC).  The ACC, through the Line Citing Committee, must review the plans every two years to evaluate the proposed facilities as they relate to the state’s current and planned energy needs.  The Committee, established in 1971, consists of eleven members with the Attorney General or designee acting as chairman.  Additional members include: the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality or designee, the Director of the Department of Water Resources or designee, the Director of the Department of Commerce Energy Office or designee, the Chairman of the Arizona Corporation Commission or designee.  Six members appointed by the Corporation Commission, three of which are members of the public, one representing cites and towns, one representing counties and one engaged in agriculture.  Committee members do not receive compensation for their service, but are reimbursed for expenses incurred as a result of committee service.

 

 

Provisions

 

·                      Defines Planned Arizona electric transmission system

·                      Authorizes the Line Citing Committee to provide compensation for those members of the committee that represent the public in the amount of two hundred dollars per day.  Members employed by the government entities are not eligible to receive compensation.

·                      States that the committee shall use monies from the Line Citing Fund to pay for the cost of compensating public members of the committee.

·                      Requires that ten-year plans include information relating to proposed power facilities in addition to the current requirement for data pertaining to transmission facilities.

·                      Establishes that plans for new facilities must include an analysis on the effects that the new facility will have on the state’s electric transmission system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

HB 2040 was amended in the Committee on Energy Utilities and Technology in the form of a strike everything amendment as follows:

 

·                     Defines Current Planned Arizona Electric Transmission System

·                     Authorizes the Line Citing Committee to compensate members of the committee that represent the public, except those employed by government entities.

·                     States that the committee shall use monies from the Line Citing Fund to pay for the cost of compensating public members of the committee.

·                     Requires an entity contemplating construction of a power plant to submit a plan outlining the proposed power facilities ninety days prior to filing an application for a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility.

·                     Establishes that the plans must include the following information:

·                     The location of the plant

·                     The average maximum power output

·                     The expected capacity factor of each plant

·                     The type of fuel to be used

·                     A power flow and stability analysis

·                     Specifies that any information provided to the Corporation Commission is confidential.

·                     Adds that Arizona Corporation Commission official that knowingly releases this information is guilty of a Class 2 Misdemeanor.

 

 

 

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44th Legislature                    

Second Regular Session        2          February 22, 2001

 

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