PIERRE, S.D.(DRGNews)- Republican Party leaders in the South Dakota House and Senate have drafted three bills that they hope will help find compromise between landowners and development of value added agriculture projects in the state.

House Majority Leader Representative Will Mortenson from Fort Pierre and Senate Majority Leader Senator Casey Crabtree of Madison are the prime sponsors of HB1185, HB1186 and SB201.

Mortenson says the bills would be “the strongest landowner protections we’ve passed in this building in the last 20 years.

Mortenson says HB1185 also includes a one-time payment of an access fee.

Crabtree says the central goals of the three bills are respect for landowners, certainty for value added agriculture into the future and infrastructure.

Crabtree and Mortenson anticipate the two house bills seeing committee action next week with the senate bill being heard late next week or the week after.

The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission denied pipeline permit requests from Navigator CO2 Ventures and from Summit Carbon Solutions last year citing county setback law violations. Since then, Navigator has ended its project, but Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions is still moving forward with its plan. Their project involves building a pipeline to transport carbon dioxide from 32 ethanol plants in the Midwest– including Redneck Energy at Onida– to underground storage in North Dakota. The project would be eligible for federal tax credits incentivizing greenhouse gas sequestration.