Montana § 10-1-1505 - Military Affected Area Regulations -- Contents

§ 10-1-1505. Military Affected Area Regulations -- Contents

Military affected area regulations -- contents. (1) Regulations adopted for the military affected area must be reasonable, be designed to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, and protect and facilitate the military missions executed within the military affected area. At a minimum, these regulations must give consideration to: (a) the safety of persons physically present in a military affected area and the persons and property in the vicinity of the area; (b) the character of the military operations conducted or expected to be conducted within the area; (c) the nature of the terrain; (d) the future development of the military affected area; (e) United States department of defense recommendations for the safety zones, noise contours, and flight path restrictions for the appropriate type of military operation and the compatibility of surrounding land uses with the recommendations; and (f) existing and potential future uses of the land proposed to be included in a military affected area. (2) Military affected area regulations must be limited to addressing current and known future military uses and may be adopted only to: (a) limit electromagnetic emissions that may interfere with military operations; (b) describe the military affected area by referencing maps other than those required under 10-1-1504 (2) and describing existing hazards and natural terrain that intrude into the military affected area; (c) designate and describe zones within the military affected area, along with the height limitations for structures and trees within each zone, considering local conditions and needs; (d) show the contours for decibel levels of 65 YDNL or greater on the maps that designate a military affected area if a study has been conducted pursuant to United States department of defense regulations and require that information to be considered before any building may occur within the military affected area; (e) specify the permitted and conditional land uses within each zone of the military affected area by addressing: (i) residences, schools, hospitals, day-care centers, or other concentrations of people, indoors or outdoors, that are incompatible with activities within the military affected area; (ii) land uses that are incompatible with the decibel levels described in subsection (2)(d); and (iii) other land uses that are incompatible with United States department of defense recommendations regarding compatible use of land within a military affected area.