HB0025 - Regional air quality-review of state plan.

 

2001

State of Wyoming

01LSO-0027.E1 ENGROSSED

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL NO.  HB0025

 

 

Regional air quality-review of state plan.

 

Sponsored by:  Representative(s) Stafford

 

 

A BILL

 

for

 

 1  AN ACT relating to regional air quality; providing for
 2  submission to the legislature of a state implementation
 3  plan or similar commitment; providing for circumstances
 4  under which a state implementation plan or similar
 5  commitment may be submitted to the federal government; and
 6  providing for an effective date.

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 8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

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10         Section 1.  W.S. 35-11-214 is created to read:

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12         35-11-214.  Review of state implementation plans
13  related to regional air quality.

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15         (a)  Upon the issuance of a request to the state of
16  Wyoming by the United States environmental protection
17  agency for submission of a state implementation plan or

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 1  other legally enforceable commitment related to regional
 2  air quality, including, but not limited to, regional haze
 3  or visibility, the director of the department of
 4  environmental quality immediately shall notify the
 5  legislature in writing of the request. The director shall
 6  submit to the legislature a copy of any plan or other
 7  legally enforceable commitment prepared pursuant to the
 8  request no later than sixty (60) days before the date
 9  scheduled for submission of the plan or commitment to the
10  United States environmental protection agency. Before the
11  date scheduled for submission of the plan or commitment to
12  the United States environmental protection agency, the
13  legislative committee to which the plan or commitment has
14  been assigned shall convene a public hearing to receive
15  comments from agencies of government and other interested
16  parties on the prospective economic and environmental
17  impacts of the plan or other legally enforceable
18  commitment, including, but not limited to, impacts on
19  energy use, the environment, economic development, utility
20  costs and rates, transportation fuel costs and industrial
21  competitiveness.

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23         (b)  In the absence of a resolution or other act of
24  the legislature approving a state implementation plan or

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 1  other legally enforceable commitment related to regional
 2  air quality, including, but not limited to, regional haze
 3  or visibility, the director shall not submit to the United
 4  States environmental protection agency any plan or
 5  commitment that would impose emission controls more
 6  stringent than necessary to demonstrate attainment with any
 7  national ambient air quality standard or adopt any rules or
 8  regulations implementing such a state implementation plan
 9  or other legally enforceable commitment, unless it can be
10  shown by clear and convincing evidence that:

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12              (i)  Man-made emission sources located within
13  Wyoming significantly contribute to regional haze impacts
14  in another state;

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16              (ii)  Feasible emission reductions in a state
17  subject to the impact specified in paragraph (i) of this
18  subsection would not permit that state to demonstrate
19  reasonable progress with the national visibility goal; and

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21              (iii)  Actions taken under the current state
22  implementation plan or future state implementation plan
23  changes required by the federal Clean Air Act will not
24  result in achieving reasonable progress in another state.

 

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 2         (c)  Rules and regulations implementing any state
 3  implementation plan or other legally enforceable commitment
 4  submitted to the legislature under subsection (b) of this
 5  section shall not take effect until the later of:

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 7              (i)  Sixty (60) days after the state
 8  implementation plan or other legally enforceable commitment
 9  was submitted to and approved by the legislature under
10  subsection (b) of this section; or

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12              (ii)  The written approval of the state
13  implementation plan or other legally enforceable commitment
14  by the United States environmental protection agency.

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16         (d)  When there is a determination under paragraph
17  (b)(i) of this section that man-made emissions originating
18  in Wyoming are contributing significantly to another
19  state's inability to meet the reasonable progress goals for
20  visibility, then the department of environmental quality
21  shall convene a stakeholder process among affected areas,
22  with opportunity for public participation, to develop
23  cooperative approaches for resolving interstate transport
24  issues.

 

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 2         (e)  Legislative review and approval as provided in
 3  this section are required before implementation of any cap
 4  and trade program, if that implementation date is other
 5  than the date of implementation of the state implementation
 6  plan.

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 8         Section 2.  This act is effective immediately upon
 9  completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law
10  as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming
11  Constitution.

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13                         (END)

 

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