Peach State Bill Sets Up 2 Step Process for Private Entities & Eminent Domain. – InfoHive

Georgia’s Senate Bill 191 sets up this 2 step process for a pipeline to obtain eminent domain:

receive a “certificate of need” from the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority; AND
approval by Georgia’s environmental agency

A late amendment prohbited pipelines in coastal areas, the Georgia Coastal Zone Management Program, to “protect the drinking water.”