Lege trend: 2 Step Agency Approval for Pipeline Eminent Domain

The South Carolina Attorney General issued an opinion asserting that a pipeline probably does not have eminent domain authority which sent legislators into overdrive. 

The proposal floating around would require an oil and gas comapny to get approval from:

• The head of the state Department of Health and Environmental Control
• The head of the  Public Service Commission (its  7  members are elected by the Legislature)

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