Bill Text: NH SB179 | 2013 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Clarifying the definition of renewable generation facility for purposes of payments in lieu of property tax payments and allowing certain facilities that combust municipal waste for energy to make payments in lieu of property tax payments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-07-15 - Signed by the Governor on 07/15/2013; Chapter 0232; Effective 09/13/2013 [SB179 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2013-SB179-Chaptered.html
CHAPTER 232
SB 179 – FINAL VERSION
29May2013… 1698h
2013 SESSION
01/04
SENATE BILL 179
AN ACT clarifying the definition of “renewable generation facility” for purposes of payments in lieu of property tax payments and allowing certain facilities that combust municipal waste for energy to make payments in lieu of property tax payments.
SPONSORS: Sen. Larsen, Dist 15
AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill clarifies the definition of “renewable generation facility” for purposes of payments in lieu of property tax payments and allows certain facilities that combust municipal waste for energy to make payments in lieu of property tax payments.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
29May2013… 1698h
13-0937
01/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen
AN ACT clarifying the definition of “renewable generation facility” for purposes of payments in lieu of property tax payments and allowing certain facilities that combust municipal waste for energy to make payments in lieu of property tax payments.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
232:1 Definition of Renewable Generation Facility. Amend RSA 72:73 to read as follows:
72:73 Definition of Renewable Generation Facility. In this subdivision, “renewable generation facility” means a facility which produces electric energy for resale solely by the use, as a primary energy source, of [renewable energy as defined in RSA 374-F:3, V(f)(3)] geothermal energy, tidal or wave energy, wind energy, solar thermal energy, photovoltaic energy, landfill gas energy, hydro energy, biomass energy, energy generated from bio-oil, bio synthetic gas, and biodiesel as defined in RSA 362-A:1-a, I, I-a, and I-b, including the land, all rights, easements, and other interests thereto, and all dams, buildings, structures, and other improvements situated thereon which are necessary or incidental to the production of power at the facility.
232:2 Facilities That Combust Municipal Waste for Energy; Payments in Lieu of Property Taxes. A facility that combusts municipal waste for energy, constructed prior to July 16, 2009, where mercury emissions are reduced to an emission rate of 0.028 milligrams per dry standard cubic meter or less corrected to 7 percent oxygen by volume on a dry basis, or at least 85 percent control efficiency, may make payments in lieu of taxes in accordance with RSA 72:74.
232:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: July 15, 2013
Effective Date: September 13, 2013
