Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §716 is enacted to read:

§716. Overhead line extensions; notice to Legislature

The commission shall provide written and detailed notice to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over utilities matters of any proceeding in which it proposes to examine or to consider revisions to a transmission and distribution utility's terms and conditions relating to single-phase overhead line extensions.

Sec. 2. Private line extensions in Central Maine Power Company service territory; Public Utilities Commission order voided. The Public Utilities Commission order of November 10, 1999 in Docket Number 99-042 is void and Central Maine Power Company's terms and conditions relating to single-phase overhead line extensions in effect prior to that order are reinstated and remain in effect until the commission, in an appropriate proceeding undertaken after the effective date of this Act, approves revisions to those terms and conditions in accordance with this Act. The commission may open a proceeding and issue appropriate orders to clarify any terms and conditions reinstated by this Act to ensure consistency with this Act. If, after the effective date of this Act, the commission considers any substantive revisions to the reinstated terms and conditions, the commission may approve the revisions only if in its order it cites this Act and identifies specific changes in circumstances subsequent to the effective date of this Act that justify the revisions.

Sec. 3. Compensation of builders of private line extensions. The Public Utilities Commission shall, by an appropriate order issued no later than 90 days after the effective date of this Act, amend Central Maine Power Company's terms and conditions to provide that the company will connect to its system any single-phase overhead line constructed by or at the expense of a customer if that line meets all relevant location, safety and electrical standards for connection to the system. The order shall establish appropriate terms and conditions to ensure that if Central Maine Power Company acquires ownership of such a line, the company must pay the customer at whose expense the line was constructed full and fair compensation for the costs of construction and all reasonable repair and maintenance costs paid for by the customer prior to acquisition by Central Maine Power Company. The order may include further provisions necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. The terms and conditions and the commission order must cite this Act. After the establishment of such terms and conditions by