HF 803

as introduced - 83rd Legislature (2003 - 2004) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to the environment; requiring certain 
  1.3             coal-fired power plants to install pollution control 
  1.4             equipment by 2010; proposing coding for new law in 
  1.5             Minnesota Statutes, chapter 116.  
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  [116.062] [AIR EMISSIONS FROM COAL-FIRED POWER 
  1.8   PLANTS.] 
  1.9      Subdivision 1.  [COMPLIANCE BY 2010.] (a) By July 1, 2010, 
  1.10  an electric generation facility that uses coal as its primary 
  1.11  fuel shall install applicable best available control technology 
  1.12  identified by the United States Environmental Protection Agency 
  1.13  for controlling criteria pollutants under the federal Clean Air 
  1.14  Act, if installation of such technology is economically 
  1.15  feasible.  If installation of such technology is not 
  1.16  economically feasible at a particular facility, the facility 
  1.17  shall instead upgrade the facility to comply with the new source 
  1.18  performance standards promulgated under the federal Clean Air 
  1.19  Act applicable to a new coal-fired power plant of that type.  
  1.20     (b) The owner of a facility subject to paragraph (a) may 
  1.21  opt to convert the facility to one that uses natural gas as the 
  1.22  primary fuel to comply with that paragraph. 
  1.23     Subd. 2.  [EMISSIONS REDUCTION RIDER.] In order to be 
  1.24  eligible for the preferential rate treatment provided under 
  1.25  section 216B.1692, the owner of a facility described in 
  2.1   subdivision 1 must make application under section 216B.1692 by 
  2.2   July 1, 2004.  A filing made pursuant to this subdivision is not 
  2.3   subject to section 216B.1692, subdivision 5, paragraph (c), 
  2.4   clause (1).