Landowners with a pipeline or transmission easement offer

Where does the line cross your land?

Free check of a pipeline or power line easement offer: widths, uses, payment terms, restoration and the questions to ask the land agent.

  • Free to read
  • No sign-up until the draft
  • Hands off to the right door
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ePlan fills in

  • Parcel and acres
  • Existing transmission lines
  • Soils and drainage
  • Aerial view

How it works

Easement term summary and question list, from one answer

  1. Enter the land and upload the easement and offer letter.
  2. ePlan maps the crossing and lays out each term, with what's missing.
  3. Running the project's federal review? Start a NEPA environmental assessment draft.

What you get

Easement term summary and question list and 2 more documents

The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the NEPA environmental assessment door.

The first draft

Easement term summary and question list (free)

  1. Grantee, purpose and permitted uses
  2. Permanent and temporary widths
  3. Payment, damages and crop loss
  4. Restoration, topsoil and drain tile
  5. Access, abandonment and assignment
  6. Questions for the land agent and your lawyer
Next · 2

Solar lease check

  1. Payments and term
  2. Decommissioning
  3. Taxes
  4. Questions to ask
Next · 3

NEPA environmental assessment draft

  1. Purpose and need
  2. Alternatives
  3. Affected environment
  4. Environmental consequences
  5. Agencies consulted

From public data

What ePlan fills in, and from where

3 business days

after FERC issues notice of an interstate gas pipeline application, the company must mail or hand-deliver notice to affected landowners
Source: 18 CFR 157.6(d), eCFR

Ready for the paperwork?

Draft a NEPA environmental assessment and FONSI, or an EIS outline, that follows a reference document. Free to read; every unconfirmed fact is marked.

NEPA environmental assessment →

Questions

Utility Easement Offer Check: what people ask

Can a pipeline company take an easement if I say no?

For interstate natural gas pipelines, yes: a holder of a FERC certificate of public convenience and necessity that can't agree with the owner may use eminent domain in federal district court or state court. Other pipelines and power lines follow state law.

Source: law.cornell.edu

How will I hear about a pipeline application?

The company must make a good-faith effort to notify affected landowners by mail or by hand within 3 business days after FERC issues notice of the application, and publish notice twice in local newspapers. The notice includes FERC's landowner pamphlet.

Source: ecfr.gov

What will the landowner notice tell me?

The docket number, FERC's pamphlet on the certificate process and landowner concerns, and a description of the applicant and project, including a general location map, its purpose and its timing.

Source: ecfr.gov

The rules this door follows