No person desiring to construct or operate a facility for gathering, extracting, purifying, dehydrating, or otherwise treating landfill methane shall be required to obtain any certificate of public convenience and necessity for such construction or operation of such facility from the Tennessee public utility commission. Neither the rates and charges between the parties for construction and operation of any such facility, nor the sales price of any landfill methane produced or treated, shall be subject to economic regulation by the Tennessee public utility commission or any other agency of the state; provided, that the construction and operation of any facility for such operations shall be subject to all other applicable laws.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers
Chapter 28 - Pipeline Corporations
Part 2 - Landfill Methane Development Act
§ 65-28-203. Construction and Operation of Landfill Methane Facility
§ 65-28-204. Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity Not Required — Economic Regulation
§ 65-28-205. Rates and Charges — Regulation
§ 65-28-206. Transportation of Landfill Methane
§ 65-28-207. Natural Gas Local Distribution System Not Required to Transport Landfill Methane
§ 65-28-208. Addition of Refined Landfill Methane Into Natural Gas Stream