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2023 SESSION

23102636D
HOUSE BILL NO. 1974
Offered January 11, 2023
Prefiled January 10, 2023
A BILL to provide that certain underground transmission lines are in the public interest.
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Patrons-- Roem and Lopez
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Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The construction and reconstruction, of any underground, in whole or in part, electrical transmission lines of at least 69 kilovolts along a highway right-of-way under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation in Planning District 8 where a data center proposal is under construction in an area located within a half mile of a National Battlefield Park and within one mile of a state forest is in the public interest.