Montana Title 69. Public Utilities and Carriers § 69-4-522. Duties of department--rulemaking

(a) assess civil penalties pursuant to 69-4-524 and 69-4-525;

(b) maintain incident reports;

(c) collect fees from underground facility owners in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to 69-4-502(4)(a) and subsection (2)(c) of this section;

(d) collect fines for failures to file incident reports in accordance with 69-4-529;

(e) award grants in accordance with 69-4-528; and

(f) conduct mediation and contested cases regarding disputed civil penalties in accordance with 69-4-526.

(a) assessment and collection of civil penalties provided for in 69-4-524 and 69-4-525;

(b) reporting and collection of incident reports pursuant to 69-4-529;

(c) collection of annual fees of up to $0.10 per outgoing locate request issued to each individual underground facility owner by a notification center. The fee must be based on the number of outgoing locate requests that an underground facility owner received in the previous 12-month period.

(d) procedures, including but not limited to application and filing requirements for mediation and the review of disputed penalties; and

(e) procedures for grant funding authorized in 69-4-528. The rules for grant funding must include but are not limited to: