1.A pipeline company doing business in this state shall file with the commission its
verified petition asking for a permit to construct, maintain, and operate its pipeline or lines
along, over, or across the public or private highways, grounds, waters, and streams of any
kind of this state. Any pipeline company now owning or operating a pipeline in this state
shall be issued a permit by the commission upon supplying the information as provided for
in section 479.6.
2.A pipeline company doing business in this state and proposing to engage in
underground storage of gas within this state shall file with the commission its verified
petition asking for a permit to construct, maintain, and operate facilities for the underground
storage of gas to include the construction, placement, maintenance
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1. A pipeline company doing business in this state shall file with the commission its
verified petition asking for a permit to construct, maintain, and operate its pipeline or lines
along, over, or across the public or private highways, grounds, waters, and streams of any
kind of this state. Any pipeline company now owning or operating a pipeline in this state
shall be issued a permit by the commission upon supplying the information as provided for
in section 479.6.
2. A pipeline company doing business in this state and proposing to engage in
underground storage of gas within this state shall file with the commission its verified
petition asking for a permit to construct, maintain, and operate facilities for the underground
storage of gas to include the construction, placement, maintenance, and operation of
machinery, appliances, fixtures, wells, pipelines, and stations necessary for the construction,
maintenance, and operation of the gas underground storage facilities.
3. a. A pipeline company shall hold informational meetings in each county in which real
property or property rights will be affected at least thirty days prior to filing the petition for a
new pipeline. A member of the commission or a person designated by the commission shall
serve as the presiding officer at each meeting, shall present an agenda for the meeting which
shall include a summary of the legal rights of the affected landowners, and shall distribute
and review the statement of individual rights required under section 6B.2A. A formal record
of the meeting shall not be required.
b. The meeting shall be held at a location reasonably accessible to all persons, companies,
or corporations which may be affected by the granting of the permit.
4. a. The pipeline company seeking the permit for a new pipeline shall give notice of the
informational meeting to each person determined to be a landowner affected by the proposed
project and each person in possession of or residing on the property. For the purposes of
the informational meeting, “landowner” means a person listed on the tax assessment rolls
as responsible for the payment of real estate taxes imposed on the property and “pipeline”
means a line transporting a solid, liquid, or gaseous substance, except water, under pressure
in excess of one hundred fifty pounds per square inch and extending a distance of not less
than five miles or having a future anticipated extension of an overall distance of five miles.
b. The notice shall set forth the name of the applicant; the applicant’s principal place
of business; the general description and purpose of the proposed project; the general
nature of the right-of-way desired; the possibility that the right-of-way may be acquired by
condemnation if approved by the commission; a map showing the route of the proposed
project; a description of the process used by the commission in making a decision on
whether to approve a permit including the right to take property by eminent domain; that
the landowner has a right to be present at such meeting and to file objections with the
commission; and a designation of the time and place of the meeting. The notice shall be
served by certified mail with return receipt requested not less than thirty days previous to the
time set for the meeting, and shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation
in the county. The publication shall be considered notice to landowners whose residence is
not known and to each person in possession of or residing on the property provided a good
faith effort to notify can be demonstrated by the pipeline company.
5. A pipeline company seeking rights under this chapter shall not negotiate or purchase
any easements or other interests in land in any county known to be affected by the proposed
project prior to the informational meeting.