82-1-601. Definitions, MCA

Montana Code Annotated 2025

TITLE 82. MINERALS, OIL, AND GAS

CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Part 6. Critical Infrastructure Facility -- Trespass

Definitions

82-1-601. Definitions. As used in 82-1-601 through 82-1-604, the following definitions apply:

(1) "Critical infrastructure" means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of the systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.

(2) "Critical infrastructure facility" means:

(a) one of the following:

(i) a petroleum or alumina refinery;

(ii) an electric generating facility, substation, switching station, electrical control center, or electric transmission and distribution lines and associated equipment infrastructure;

(iii) a chemical, polymer, or rubber manufacturing facility;

(iv) a water intake structure, water treatment facility, wastewater treatment plant, or pump station;

(v) a natural gas compressor station, including but not limited to pipeline interconnections, a city gate or town border station, a metering station, aboveground piping, and a regulation station and natural gas storage facility;

(vi) a liquid natural gas terminal or storage facility;

(vii) a telecommunications central switching office;

(viii) wireless telecommunications infrastructure;

(ix) a port, railroad switching yard, railroad tracks, trucking terminal, or other freight transportation facility;

(x) a gas processing plant, including a plant used in the processing, treatment, or fractionation of natural gas or natural gas liquids;

(xi) a transmission facility used by a federally licensed radio or television station;

(xii) a steelmaking facility that uses an electric arc furnace to make steel;

(xiii) a facility identified and regulated by the United States department of homeland security chemical facility anti-terrorism standards program;

(xiv) a dam that is regulated by the state, the federal government, or a tribal government;

(xv) a natural gas distribution utility facility, including but not limited to pipeline interconnections, a city gate or town border station, a metering station, aboveground piping, a regular station, and a natural gas storage facility;

(xvi) aboveground oil, gas, hazardous liquid, and chemical pipelines;

(xvii) aboveground portions of an oil or natural gas well and associated production facilities;

(xviii) aboveground portions of a mineral or metal mining facility;

(xix) correctional facilities;

(xx) cable television, broadband, and wired communications infrastructure, including headends, poles, cable television and broadband lines, coaxial and fiber optic lines, and other equipment attached to cable television lines, broadband, and wired communications infrastructure;

(xxi) military installations, including but not limited to training areas and armories; and

(xxii) a crude oil, inclusive of Y-grade or natural gas liquids, or a refined products storage and distribution facility, including but not limited to a value site, pipeline interconnection, pump station, metering station, below or aboveground pipeline or piping, and truck loading or offloading facility;

(b) a facility for the construction of a location listed in subsection (2)(a); or

(c) a below or aboveground portion of an oil, gas, hazardous liquid, or chemical transmission or distribution pipeline, tank, railroad facility, or other facility that is completely enclosed by a fence or other physical barrier that is obviously designed to exclude intruders, or if clearly marked with a sign or signs that are posted on the property that indicate that entry is forbidden without site authorization.

(3) "Organization" means a group of people, structured in a specific way to achieve a series of shared goals.

History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 522, L. 2021; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 116, L. 2025.