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Northern Maine Transmission Corporation pursuant to Title 10, | | chapter 1003 or financed by the Finance Authority of Maine pursuant | | to Title 10, section 1053, subsection 6, paragraph F, the utility | | or utilities or project proponent shall file a petition for the | | approval of the proposed line. The petition for approval of the | | proposed transmission line must contain such information as the | | commission by rule prescribes. The petition for approval must be | | set down for public hearing. The commission shall issue its order | | within 6 months after the petition is filed unless this period is | | extended either by agreement of all the parties or by the | | commission upon its determination that the party seeking the | | extension would, because of circumstances beyond that party's | | control, be unreasonably disadvantaged unless the extension were | | granted, provided that the party to that time had prosecuted its | | case in good faith and with due diligence. |
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| | | At the time of filing of a petition for approval of a proposed | | line under this section, the utility shall send a copy of the | | petition by certified mail to the municipal officers of the | | municipality or municipalities in which the line is to be | | located. |
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| | | Sec. 13. 35-A MRSA §3132, sub-§§2-A and 2-B are enacted to read: |
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| | | 2-A. Other projects requiring approval.__The commission shall | | by rule or order adopt standards and procedures for processing an | | application from an applicant that is not a transmission and | | distribution utility for a certificate of public convenience and | | necessity under this section for a transmission line capable of | | operating at 69 kilovolts or more that is proposed to be | | financed, permitted, constructed, owned in whole or in part or | | operated by the Northern Maine Transmission Corporation pursuant | | to Title 10, chapter 1003 or financed by the Finance Authority of | | Maine pursuant to Title 10, section 1053, subsection 6, paragraph | | F.__Except as the commission determines otherwise appropriate, | | the standards and procedures must conform as far as possible with | | those that would apply to an application from a transmission and | | distribution utility.__Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection | | are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, | | subchapter 2-A. |
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| | | 2-B.__Standards for certain projects.__The commission may deny | | a certificate__of public convenience and necessity for a | | transmission line capable of operating at 69 kilovolts or more | | that is proposed to be financed, permitted, constructed, owned in | | whole or in part or operated by the Northern Maine Transmission | | Corporation pursuant to Title 10, chapter 1003 or financed by the | | Finance Authority of Maine pursuant to Title 10, section 1053, | | subsection 6, paragraph F upon a finding that the line is | | reasonably likely to adversely affect any transmission and | | distribution utility or its customers. |
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