2016 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 224 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Subchapter 20 - Air Quality 224.20-145 Conditions under which cabinet may propose or submit a plan establishing carbon dioxide emission reduction performance standards for existing fossil fuel-fired electric generating units -- Administrative regulations -- Conditions under which performance standards plan is a legal nullity.
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224.20-145
Conditions under which cabinet may propose or submit a plan
establishing carbon dioxide emission reduction performance standards for
existing fossil fuel-fired electric generating units -- Administrative regulations - Conditions under which performance standards plan is a legal nullity.
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The cabinet shall not propose or submit to the United States Environmental
Protection Agency any plan establishing performance standards for existing fossil
fuel-fired electric generating units unless the plan is:
(a) Consistent with KRS 224.20-140 to 224.20-146; and
(b) Prepared in consultation with the Kentucky Public Service Commission to
ensure that the plan:
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Minimizes the impacts on current and future industrial, commercial, and
residential consumers; and
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Does not threaten the affordability of Kentucky's rates or the reliability
of electricity service.
The cabinet shall promulgate administrative regulations for the establishment and
implementation of any state plan to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide emissions
from existing fossil fuel-fired electric generating units under 42 U.S.C. sec.
7411(d).
Any state plan established by the cabinet to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide
pursuant to KRS 224.20-140 to 224.20-146 shall have no legal effect if:
(a) The United States Environmental Protection Agency:
1.
Fails to issue federal rules or guidelines for reducing carbon dioxide
emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired electric generating units under
42 U.S.C. sec. 7411(d); or
2.
Withdraws its federal rules or guidelines for reducing carbon dioxide
emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired electric generating units; or
(b) A court of competent jurisdiction invalidates the United States Environmental
Protection Agency's federal rules or guidelines issued to regulate emissions of
carbon dioxide from existing fossil fuel-fired electric generating units.
Effective: July 15, 2014
History: Created 2014 Ky. Acts ch. 18, sec. 7, effective July 15, 2014.
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