For facilities subject to the requirements of this article within the service area of a city or town in an active management area, as such terms are used and defined in Title 45, Chapter 2, the power plant and transmission line siting committee shall consider, as a criterion for issuing a certificate of environmental compatibility, the availability of groundwater and the impact of the proposed use of groundwater on the management plan established under Title 45, Chapter 2, Article 9 for the active management area.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 40-360.13

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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