§8422 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

Owners or operators of existing electric powerplants that must meet the law’s limits must send a report to the Secretary by January 1, 1980 and each year after. The report must list all affected plants, give a schedule for when each plant will comply, describe any contracts or good‑faith talks for fuels (like coal) or equipment that would allow compliance, and name any plants that might seek temporary or permanent exemptions. Electric utilities that must file a conservation plan must also send the Secretary an annual report saying what steps they took the previous year to carry out that plan.

Title 42, §8422

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(a)Any person owning, operating, or proposing to operate one or more existing electric powerplants required to come into compliance with the prohibitions of this chapter shall on or before January 1, 1980, and annually thereafter, submit to the Secretary a report identifying all such existing electric powerplants owned or operated by such person. Such report shall—

(1)set forth the anticipated schedule for compliance with the applicable requirements and prohibitions by each such electric powerplant;

(2)indicate proposed or existing contracts or other commitments or good faith negotiations for such contracts or commitments for coal or another alternate fuel, equipment, or combinations thereof, which would enable such powerplant to comply with such prohibitions; and

(3)identify those electric powerplants, if any, for which application for temporary or permanent exemption from the prohibitions of this chapter may be filed.

(b)Any electric utility required to submit a conservation plan under section 8484 of this title shall annually submit to the Secretary a report identifying the steps taken during the preceding year to implement such plan.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 95–620, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3289, known as the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 8301 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

1981—Pub. L. 97–35 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1981 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 97–35 effective Aug. 13, 1981, see section 1038 of Pub. L. 97–35, set out as a note under section 6240 of this title.

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