Every utility planning to construct a plant, transmission line or both in this state shall first file with the commission an application for a certificate of environmental compatibility. The application shall be in a form prescribed by the commission and shall be accompanied by information with respect to the proposed type of facilities and description of the site, including the areas of jurisdiction affected and the estimated cost of the proposed facilities and site. Also the application shall be accompanied by a receipt evidencing payment of the appropriate fee required by Section 40-360.09. The application and accompanying information shall be promptly referred by the commission to the chairman of the committee for the committee’s review and decision.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 40-360.03

  • 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
  • Facilities: means a plant or transmission line, or both. See Arizona Laws 40-360
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • 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
  • Utility: means any person engaged in the generation or transmission of electric energy. See Arizona Laws 40-360
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