Bill Text: OR HB2274 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

Oregon House Bill 2274 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to reporting of information related to greenhouse gas emissions.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-4)

Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB2274 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HB2274-Introduced.html



     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

NOTE:  Matter within  { +  braces and plus signs + } in an
amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
signs - } is existing law to be omitted. New sections are within
 { +  braces and plus signs + } .

LC 1157

                         House Bill 2274

Sponsored by Representative GILLIAM, Senator OLSEN,
  Representative BENTZ; Representatives BOONE, ESQUIVEL, HUFFMAN,
  MATTHEWS, OLSON, THOMPSON, WITT, Senators BOQUIST, JOHNSON
  (Presession filed.)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Modifies, for purpose of gathering information related to
greenhouse gas emissions, information that Environmental Quality
Commission may require to be reported.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to reporting of information related to greenhouse gas
  emissions; amending ORS 468A.280.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 468A.280 is amended to read:
  468A.280. (1)  { + Except as provided in subsection (3) of this
section, and + } in addition to any registration and reporting
that may be required under ORS 468A.050, the Environmental
Quality Commission by rule may require registration and reporting
by:
  (a) Any person who imports, sells, allocates or distributes for
use in this state electricity, the generation of which emits
greenhouse gases.
  (b) Any person who imports, sells or distributes for use in
this state fossil fuel that generates greenhouse gases when
combusted.
  (2) { +  Except as provided in subsection (3) of this
section, + } rules adopted by the commission under this section
for electricity that is imported, sold, allocated or distributed
for use in this state may require reporting of information
necessary to determine greenhouse gas emissions from generating
facilities used to produce the electricity and related
electricity transmission line losses.
   { +  (3) Rules adopted by the commission under this section
may not require the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions other
than actual greenhouse gas emissions produced by a generating
facility. + }
    { - (3)(a) - }   { + (4)(a) + } The commission shall allow
consumer-owned utilities, as defined in ORS 757.270, to comply
with reporting requirements imposed under this section by the
submission of a report prepared by a third party. A report
submitted under this paragraph may include information for more
than one consumer-owned utility, but must include all information
required by the commission for each individual utility.
  (b) For the purpose of determining greenhouse gas emissions
related to electricity purchased from the Bonneville Power
Administration by a consumer-owned utility, as defined in ORS
757.270, the commission may require only that the utility report:
  (A) The number of megawatt-hours of electricity purchased by
the utility from the Bonneville Power Administration, segregated
by the types of contracts entered into by the utility with the
Bonneville Power Administration; and
  (B) The percentage of each fuel or energy type used to produce
electricity purchased under each type of contract.
    { - (4)(a) - }   { + (5)(a) + } Rules adopted by the
commission pursuant to this section for electricity that is
purchased, imported, sold, allocated or distributed for use in
this state by an electric company, as defined in ORS 757.600,
must be limited to the reporting of:
  (A) Greenhouse gas emissions emitted from generating facilities
owned or operated by the electric company;
  (B) Greenhouse gas emissions emitted from transmission
equipment owned or operated by the electric company;
  (C) The number of megawatt-hours of electricity purchased by
the electric company for use in this state, including
information, if known, on:
  (i) The seller of the electricity to the electric company; and
  (ii) The original generating facility fuel type or types; and
  (D) An estimate of the amount of greenhouse gas emissions,
using default greenhouse gas emissions factors established by the
commission by rule, attributable to:
  (i) Electricity purchases made by a particular seller to the
electric company;
  (ii) Electricity purchases from an unknown origin or from a
seller who is unable to identify the original generating facility
fuel type or types;
    { - (iii) Electricity purchases for which a renewable energy
certificate under ORS 469A.130 has been issued but subsequently
transferred or sold to a person other than the electric
company; - }
    { - (iv) - }   { + (iii) + } Electricity transmitted for
others by the electric company; and
    { - (v) - }   { + (iv) + } Total energy losses from
electricity transmission and distribution equipment owned or
operated by the electric company.
  (b) Pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection, a
multijurisdictional electric company may rely upon a cost
allocation methodology approved by the Public Utility Commission
for reporting emissions allocated in this state.
    { - (5) - }   { + (6) + } Rules adopted by the commission
under this section for fossil fuel that is imported, sold or
distributed for use in this state may require reporting of the
type and quantity of the fuel and any additional information
necessary to determine the carbon content of the fuel. For the
purpose of determining greenhouse gas emissions related to
liquefied petroleum gas, the commission shall allow reporting
using publications or submission of data by the American
Petroleum Institute but may require reporting of such other
information necessary to achieve the purposes of the rules
adopted by the commission under this section.
    { - (6) - }   { + (7) + } To an extent that is consistent
with the purposes of the rules adopted by the commission under
this section, the commission shall minimize the burden of the
reporting required under this section by:
  (a) Allowing concurrent reporting of information that is also
reported to another state agency;
  (b) Allowing electronic reporting;
  (c) Allowing use of good engineering practice calculations in
reports, or of emission factors published by the United States
Environmental Protection Agency;
  (d) Establishing thresholds for the amount of specific
greenhouse gases that may be emitted or generated without
reporting;
  (e) Requiring reporting by the fewest number of persons in a
fuel distribution system that will allow the commission to
acquire the information needed by the commission; or
  (f) Other appropriate means and procedures determined by the
commission.
    { - (7) - }   { + (8) + } As used in this section,
'greenhouse gas' has the meaning given that term in ORS 468A.210.
                         ----------