North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 69 - Public Service Commission › Article 69-06 - Energy Conversion and Transmission Facility Siting › Chapter 69-06-01 - General Provisions › Section 69-06-01-01 - Definitions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
The terms used throughout this article have the same meanings
				  as in North Dakota Century Code chapter 49-22, and in addition:
1. "Act" means the North Dakota Energy
				Conversion and Transmission Facility Siting Act, North Dakota Century Code
				chapter 49-22.
2. "Avoidance
				criteria" means criteria that remove areas from consideration for energy
				conversion facility sites and transmission facility routes unless it is shown
				that under the circumstances there are no reasonable alternatives.
3. "Criteria" means policy statements that
				guide and govern the preparation of the inventory of exclusion and avoidance
				areas, and the energy conversion facility site and transmission facility
				corridor and route suitability evaluation process.
4. "Designated corridor" means a corridor for
				which a certificate has been issued by the commission.
5. "Designated route" means a route for which
				a permit has been issued by the commission.
6. "Designated site" means a site for which a
				certificate has been issued by the commission.
7. "Extractive resources" means natural
				resources that are removed during the construction of a facility, including
				sand, gravel, soil, rock, and other similar materials.
8. "Exclusion criteria" means criteria that
				remove areas from consideration for energy conversion facility sites and
				transmission facility routes.
9.
				"Height of the turbine" means the distance from the base of the wind turbine to
				the turbine blade tip when it is in its highest position.
10. "Historical resource" means a district,
				site, building, structure, or other object which possesses significance in
				history, archaeology, paleontology, or architecture, or has other cultural
				value to the state or local community.
11. "Party aggrieved" means a person who will
				be affected in a manner different from the effect on the general
				public.
12. "Policy criteria" means
				criteria that guide and govern the selection of energy conversion facility
				sites and transmission facility corridors and routes in order to maximize
				benefits during the construction and operation of a facility.
13. "Refinement" means the action or process
				of purifying.
14. "Selection
				criteria" means criteria that guide and govern the selection of energy
				conversion facility sites and transmission facility corridors and routes in
				order to minimize adverse human and environmental impact after the exclusion
				and avoidance criteria have been applied.
15. "Siting rules" means this article adopted
				by the commission pursuant to North Dakota Century Code chapters 49-22 and
				49-22.1.
16. "Wetland" means an
				aquatic area important to the life stages of certain wildlife species as
				defined by the United States fish and wildlife service.
General Authority:
NDCC 49-22-18
Law Implemented:
NDCC 49-22-01, 49-22-03,
					 49-22-05.1, 49-22-07, 49-22-08, 49-22-08.1,
					 49-22-19