MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                             2069

AGENCIES TO SIT DUPING HEARING OF ALL PARTIES. The
Commission shall take final action only after due
consideration of the recommendations of such governing
bodies, the need to meet present and future demands for
service, effect on system stability and reliability,
economics, esthetics, historic sites, aviation safety as
determined by the State Aviation Commission and the
administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration,
and, when applicable, the effect on air and water
pollution. THE COMMISSION SHALL ALLOW STATE AGENCIES 15
DAYS AFTER CONCLUSION OF THE HEARING TO MODIFY THEIR
INITIAL RECOMMENDATIONS. The said public hearing shall be
advertised in a newspaper of general circulation in the
area affected once in each of the two successive weeks
immediately prior to the hearing. In no event shall an
electric company construct, or be authorized by the
Commission to construct, such an overhead transmission
line in line with, and within one mile of, either end of
any public airport runway, unless the Federal Aviation
Administration has determined that the construction of
such overhead transmission line will not constitute a
hazard to air navigation and such determination has been
concurred in by the State Aviation Commission. A
privately owned airport runway shall qualify as a public
airport runway within the meaning of this section only
when it shall have been on file with the Federal Aviation
Administration for a period of two years as being open to
the public without restriction.

As used in this section and § 54B herein, the term
"construction" is defined to include any clearing of
land, excavation, or other action that would affect the
natural environment of the site or route of bulk power
supply facilities, but does not include changes needed
for temporary use of sites or routes for nonutility
purposes, or uses in securing geological data, including
necessary borings to ascertain foundation conditions.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved May 17, 1976.

CHAPTER 752

(House Bill 1292)

AN ACT concerning

State Debt — Sanitary Facilities
and Resources