Bill Text: OR HB2591 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the environment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB2591 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HB2591-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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LC 1911

                         House Bill 2591

Sponsored by Representative SCHAUFLER (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.

  Provides that any statute administered by Department of
Environmental Quality or any rule adopted by Environmental
Quality Commission that imposes requirements, standards or any
other limitation that exceeds requirements, standards or any
other limitation imposed under federal law does not apply to
Boardman coal-fired power plant.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the environment.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any
statute administered by the Department of Environmental Quality
or any rule adopted by the Environmental Quality Commission that
imposes requirements, standards or any other limitation that
exceeds requirements, standards or any other limitation imposed
under federal law does not apply to the Boardman coal-fired power
plant. + }
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