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Committee advances bill to change air‑emission fee calculations and exempt certain emergency and backup generators
Summary
Representative Derek Lewis introduced a committee substitute for House Bill 346 that would exempt some emergency and backup generators from emission fees and remove a 4,000‑ton per‑source cap used to calculate per‑ton air‑emission fees.
Representative Derek Lewis introduced a committee substitute for House Bill 346 to address how the Division of Air Quality calculates emission fees. Lewis said the bill would carve emergency generators out of fee calculations, exempt backup generators run 100 hours or less for nonemergency uses (including maintenance and testing), and remove an existing 4,000‑ton per‑source cap used in fee calculations.
Lewis and a witness, Adam Goble of Stahl, Kean & Ogden, told the Committee on Natural Resources and Energy…
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