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charged under fair market value assessment. The rollback period is now five years and the tax plus 5 percent interest falls due when land is withdrawn from the preferential assessment program.)
Guest noted that he has been asked by Rappahannock’s supervisors to seek legislation which would increase the State Corporation Commission’s review authority over new and upgraded powerlines. Currently, the SCC has review authority over lines 200 kilovolts and above. The legislation which will be introduced by Guest on behalf of the Rappahannock board would lower that kilovolt limit. “I don’t know what our chances for success will be, we’ll just have to have a go at it.” the delegate said. “We’re going to have to include a stipulation that it won’t affect pending litigation so it won’t meddle with the case currently before the Supreme Court. Without that stipulation, we wouldn’t have a prayer.”
(The case now under appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court involves Rappahannock landowners Bill and Susan Cameron who challenged Potomac Edison Power Company’s right to upgrade an existing 34.5 kilovolt line to 138 kilovolts relying on a 1928 right-of-way agreement.)
In conclusion, Guest, who sits on committees for Agriculture, Finance, Conservation and Natural Resources and Roads and
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