Public Comment. Volume III - Montana Legislature
Public Comment. Volume III - Montana Legislature
Public Comment. Volume III - Montana Legislature
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ight to all of the surface damage provisions applying to Federal and State<br />
government lands. (Radue)<br />
Landowners must be protected and fairly paid for surface rights, damage, and<br />
loss of use. (Orr)<br />
• I support the following change to the eminent domain.<br />
Mitigates the damage to private. property that eminent domain causes.<br />
Landowners must have more rights to be more involved in the routing of<br />
projects across their land and should have the right to require ,the same<br />
rnitigations the government includes on state and federal lands.<br />
(Marcure)<br />
I support eminent domain reform. I suggest the subcommittee immediately<br />
draft legislation which does the following:<br />
Mitigates the damage to private property that eminent domain causes.<br />
Landowners must be more involved in the routing of projects across their<br />
land and should have the same right to require the same mitigations ,the<br />
gov't includes on state and federal land.<br />
Requires the company putting in the project to repair and do all<br />
reclamation work completely before using the pipeline, power line, etc.<br />
In our case once the pipe was laid Cenex showed little desire to properly<br />
repair the right-of-way.<br />
Requires that the company be required by law to notify the landowner<br />
immediately (within 24 hours) of any damage to the landowners property,<br />
crops, livestock, etc. On our ranch a power line fell down at our summer<br />
pasture (20 miles away) killing a cow and starting a range fire. The<br />
power company knew about it right a way, but we would probably not<br />
known about it for a few days if a neighbor had not phoned us. Other<br />
times utility crews have severely rutted up grain and hay fields without<br />
notifying us.<br />
Requires that the company pay full restitution within 30 days for any<br />
damage due to their project.<br />
Requires that the company or gov't entity control all weeds on the rightof-way<br />
forever. On our ranch we probably spend more in a year or 2<br />
controlling weeds on the 4 missile lines through our ranch than we<br />
received total for them coming through.<br />
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