Section 125-O:3 - [See Note] Integrated Power Plant StrategyI.The department shall implement an integrated, multi-pollutant strategy to reduce air emissions from affected sources.II.The integrated, multi-pollutant strategy shall be implemented in a market-based fashion that allows trading and banking of emission reductions to comply with the overall statewide annual emission caps established under RSA125-O:3, III. Allowances, up to the amount of these caps, shall be allocated to each affected source based on the output of each affected source. The department shall make publicly available all allocations prior to the effective date of such allocations.III.The strategy shall include implementation of the following statewide annual emissions caps: (a) 7,289 tons annually applicable to total sulfur dioxide (SO) emissions from the affected sources;(b) 3,644 tons annually applicable to total oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions from the affected sources;(d) [Repealed by 2012 amendment.]Amended by 2012 , 281: 11, eff. upon the date that the commissioner of the department of environmental services certifies to the secretary of state and the director of the office of legislative services that any 2 New England states participating in the regional greenhouse gas initiative end or agree to end their participation in the initiative or if a New England state which has at least 10 percent of the total load of the New England states participating in the regional greenhouse gas initiative ends its participation in the initiative. 2002, 130:2, eff. July 1, 2002. 2006, 105:2, I, eff. June 8, 2006. 2008, 182:3, eff. June 11, 2008.
This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.