Scope & Route
The Transmission Planning and Engineering Group
Who initiates a Project Plan?
Title, Survey, Acquisition
What are parts of the Right of Way Schedule?
Free of encumbrances and any doubt to validity.
What is a marketable title?
The project opponents that do not want facilities close to their homes and businesses.
Who are the NIMBY's?
Items agreed to with the property owner during negotiations that may not be in the publicly recorded easement.
What is a Side Agreement?
Scope, Route Selection, Cost Estimates, Schedule
What are the components of a Transmission Project
Where all of the activities are shown on a calendar.
What is a Gantt Chart?
The most common way to transfer ownership of real property.
What is a Deed?
They should be organized, rehearsed with professional print media
What are Public Meetings?
items affecting right of way that may be different from standard.
What is the Construction Restriction List?
The use of various maps and photography in preliminary route planning.
What is Reconnaissance?
A Finding of No Significant Impact
What is a FONSI?
The record of ownerships for a particular tract of property.
What is the Chain of Title?
Right of Way Practices that may prevent condemnation.
What are Good Faith Negotiations?
Foundations, Assembly, Stringing, Tests, Site Restoration, As-Built Drawings
What are Construction Stages?
Environmentally sensitive and congested areas
What are route selection obstacles?
Controls the work done in navigable waters.
Who is the Army Corps of Engineers?
Probable ownership of a tract of land prepared by a ROW Agent
What is a Limited Title Certificate (LTC)?
The offer required to be in writing to meet legal oblications.
What is the Final offer?
Additional compensation paid to landowners after construction as a result of the project.
What are Damage Settlements?
When route selection is not methodical, objective and defensible.
What is "arbitrary and capricious"?
The permits that may take the longest time to acquire.
What are Environmental permits?
A map showing the property boundaries and the location of the facilities to be placed on the property
What is a Survey?
The process for acquiring rights against the owner's desires.
What is Condemnation or Eminent Domain?
Effective damage settlements may lead to lasting relationship with landowners also known as...
What is Goodwill?