The fee to be paid for each application is as follows and shall be paid to the committee for deposit, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, in a special fund to be known as the utility siting fund:

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 40-360.09

  • Committee: means the power plant and transmission line siting committee. 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
  • Utility: means any person engaged in the generation or transmission of electric energy. See Arizona Laws 40-360

1. For a new proposed plant site and associated transmission line site, ten thousand dollars.

2. For expansion of an existing plant site and a new proposed transmission line site, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

3. For expansion of an existing plant site only, five thousand dollars.

4. For a new proposed transmission line site one hundred miles or more in length, five thousand dollars.

5. For a new proposed transmission line site over fifty but less than one hundred miles in length, two thousand five hundred dollars.

6. For a new proposed transmission line site fifty miles or less in length, one thousand dollars.

7. For a new proposed transmission line site paralleling an existing transmission line site, regardless of length, one thousand dollars.