Bill Text: NH HB1659 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to the implementation of the clean power state implementation plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-10 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 03/10/2016 House Journal 25 P. 47 [HB1659 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2016-HB1659-Introduced.html
HB 1659 1659 - AS INTRODUCED
2016 SESSION
16-2130
06/03
HOUSE BILL 1659
AN ACT relative to the implementation of the clean power state implementation plan.
SPONSORS: Rep. Vose, Rock. 9; Rep. D. Thomas, Rock. 5; Rep. Vadney, Belk. 2
COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy
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ANALYSIS
This bill prohibits the department of environmental services from expending funds to develop or implement a state implementation plan under the Clean Air Act until such time as the final Environmental Protection Agency rule has been declared constitutional.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
16-2130
06/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen
AN ACT relative to the implementation of the clean power state implementation plan.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Development of State Implementation Plan Prohibited. Amend RSA 125-C by inserting after section 6-a the following new section:
125-C:6-b Development of State Implementation Plan Under the Clean Air Act Prohibited.
I. The department is hereby prohibited from expending funds to develop or implement a state implementation plan for existing power plants as required by section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act until the final Environmental Protection Agency rule is declared constitutional.
II. The commissioner shall contract with an independent entity to review any plan to determine its economic effect on the state.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
