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TOM LUTEY Montana’s Attorney General has been roped into a Colstrip Power Plant lawsuit for his new role as maintenance enforcer under laws created by the Montana Legislature. The Legislature’s Republican majority empowered AG Austin Knudsen to dictate maintenance at Colstrip and to issue fines of $100,000 a day to power plant owners who didn’t comply. Knudsen, who made it clear to The Billings Gazette during the legislative session that he played no supporting role in the lawmakers’ work, did not respond to calls both on Thursday and Friday for comment about the lawsuit. Colstrip’s majority owners — Avista Corp. and Puget Sound Energy of Washington and PacifiCorp and Portland General Electric — are asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, Billings Division for an injunction stopping Knudsen from enforcing the new Montana law, which they argue violates business contract rights protected in the U.S. Constitution and

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