Our routing consultants use detailed mapping and publicly available county data to lay out the proposed route and the area around it. This is the starting point for identifying who needs to receive notice.

Oncor hires a professional land abstractor to gather ownership and property-boundary records for every tract near the route. These records come directly from each County Tax Office and Appraisal District, the same offices that maintain the official county tax rolls.

PUCT rules require public meeting notice to any property withing 500 feet, and filing notice to landowners with a habitable structure within 500 feet of the centerline for a line above 230 kV. ¹ Oncor maps a 520-foot buffer, 20 feet beyond what the rule requires, and for filings notices, includes not only habitable structures, but also properties. Oncor over-notices so that more landowners are captured.

Our certification team and our regulatory team independently cross-check the ownership list against the mapping, tract by tract, across every segment of the route. Where a record shows a missing, confidential, or unknown address, we do additional research to locate the owner rather than set the entry aside.

Once the list is confirmed and consolidated so that each landowner receives a single notice, we mail notice to every affected landowner. We also publish notice in local newspapers. Newspaper notice is not required for a public meeting, but Oncor publishes it anyway, so the wider community is aware.²