This bill amends section 70-1012 of the Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2024, to impose restrictions on the operation, maintenance, construction, or acquisition of transmission lines and related facilities carrying more than seven hundred volts. Specifically, it prohibits entities that are not classified as public power districts, public power and irrigation districts, municipalities, registered groups of municipalities, electric cooperatives, electric membership associations, joint entities formed under the Interlocal Cooperation Act, joint public agencies formed under the Joint Public Agency Act, or agencies formed under the Municipal Cooperative Financing Act from engaging in such activities within the state. However, this prohibition does not apply to any transmission lines that were already operated, maintained, constructed, or acquired prior to the effective date of the act.

Additionally, the bill requires that before any electric supplier commences construction or acquisition of electric generation facilities or transmission lines within a ten-mile radius of a military installation, they must provide written notice to the board certifying that the facilities do not contain materials or components from foreign adversaries as defined by federal regulations. Electric suppliers that comply with critical infrastructure protection requirements may be exempt from this notice requirement. The bill also clarifies that privately developed renewable energy generation facilities are exempt from these regulations if they comply with a specific section of the law. The original section 70-1012 is repealed as part of this legislative update.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 70-1012