Tennessee Code 65-28-204 – Certificate of public convenience and necessity not required – Economic regulation
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 65-28-204
- Landfill methane: means the methane gas constituent of naturally-occurring emissions in gaseous form emanating from any landfill, whether such landfill is in current operation accepting additional fill material or is closed and not accepting any additional fill material, and whether or not any such landfill has or is required to have any collection system for the collection of landfill gas, including the landfill methane component of landfill gas. See Tennessee Code 65-28-202
- Person: means any person, firm, corporation or other legal entity of any kind, including this state, every county in this state, and every municipality in this state. See Tennessee Code 65-28-202
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
No person desiring to construct or operate a facility for gathering, extracting, purifying, dehydrating, or otherwise treating landfill methane shall be required to obtain any certificate of public convenience and necessity for such construction or operation of such facility from the Tennessee public utility commission. Neither the rates and charges between the parties for construction and operation of any such facility, nor the sales price of any landfill methane produced or treated, shall be subject to economic regulation by the Tennessee public utility commission or any other agency of the state; provided, that the construction and operation of any facility for such operations shall be subject to all other applicable laws.