Arizona Laws 40-360.01. Organization and membership of the committee
A. The commission shall establish a power plant and transmission line siting committee of Arizona.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 40-360.01
- Certificate of environmental compatibility: means the certificate that is required by this article and that evidences the approval by the state of the sites for a plant or transmission line, or both. See Arizona Laws 40-360
- Commission: means the corporation commission. See Arizona Laws 40-360
- Committee: means the power plant and transmission line siting committee. See Arizona Laws 40-360
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Facilities: means a plant or transmission line, or both. See Arizona Laws 40-360
- Member: means the state official named herein, the employee designee thereof from the department, agency or governing body of such state official member and the public members designated herein. See Arizona Laws 40-360
- Person: means any state or agency or political subdivision thereof, or any individual, partnership, joint venture, corporation, city or county, whether located within or without this state, or any combination of such entities. See Arizona Laws 40-360
- Plant: means each separate thermal electric, nuclear or hydroelectric generating unit with a nameplate rating of one hundred megawatts or more for which expenditures or financial commitments for land acquisition, materials, construction or engineering exceeding $50,000 have not been made before August 13, 1971. See Arizona Laws 40-360
- Transmission line: means five or more new structures that span more than one mile in length as measured from the first structure outside of the substation, switchyard or generating site to which the line connects to the fifth structure and that are erected above ground and support one or more conductors designed for the transmission of electric energy at nominal voltages of one hundred fifteen thousand volts or more and all new switchyards to be used therewith and related thereto for which expenditures or financial commitments for land acquisition, materials, construction or engineering exceeding $50,000 have not been made before August 13, 1971. See Arizona Laws 40-360
B. The committee shall consist of the following members:
1. State attorney general or the attorney general’s designee.
2. Director of environmental quality or the director’s designee.
3. Director of water resources or the director’s designee.
4. Director of the governor’s energy office or the director’s designee.
5. Chairman of the Arizona corporation commission or the chairman’s designee.
6. Six members appointed by the commission to serve for a term of two years of which three members shall represent the public, one member shall represent incorporated cities and towns, one member shall represent counties and one member shall be actively engaged in agriculture.
C. The attorney general or the attorney general’s designee shall be chairman of the committee.
D. The commission shall establish such procedures as provide for expeditious review of the proposed siting plans and necessary consultation with the person proposing the facilities, for noticing and conducting the hearing provided by Section 40-360.04, and for a timely decision regarding the issuance of a certificate of environmental compatibility of the proposed site.
E. Committee members appointed by the commission are eligible to receive compensation of two hundred dollars for each meeting attended, prorated for partial days for each meeting attended, payable from the filing fee required by Section 40-360.09. Committee members employed by government entities are not eligible to receive compensation for their services. All committee members shall be reimbursed from the filing fee required by Section 40-360.09 for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in connection with their participation in committee meetings.
F. The committee may utilize the staff resources of its constituent agencies as well as necessary consultants. All studies required by the committee shall be conducted as specified by the committee and under its general direction.