HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1545        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3102

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to DPU hearings regarding new electric transmission projects..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. The M.G.L. are amended by the following language.  Not with standing any general law to the contrary the Department of Public Utilities shall schedule and conduct hearings in regional areas potentially affected by new electric transmission projects.  The department will ensure that all state and locally elected officials, public advocates, representatives of municipal aggregators and municipal utilities potentially affected by proposed new electric transmission project receive notice regarding proposed electric transmission project.