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[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2353 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2353

To require electric utilities to notify electric consumers of the cost 
  of emission allowances associated with the electricity delivered to 
                such consumers, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 12, 2009

 Mr. Chaffetz (for himself, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Burton of Indiana, 
  Mr. Gallegly, Mr. Fleming, Mr. Schock, Mr. Bishop of Utah, and Mr. 
   Boozman) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL

 
To require electric utilities to notify electric consumers of the cost 
  of emission allowances associated with the electricity delivered to 
                such consumers, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EPA PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION.

    In carrying out any Federal greenhouse gas regulatory program that 
provides for the sale of emission allowances in connection with an 
absolute limit on greenhouse gas emissions, the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency shall publish, on a monthly basis, the 
average cost per kilowatt hour of the emission allowances purchased by 
each person generating electricity for sale. In such publication, the 
Administrator shall provide an allocation of such costs, based on the 
generation sources, among the regions identified by the Administrator 
in which electric power is purchased and sold at wholesale. The 
Administrator shall consult with the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission and the Secretary of Energy in carrying out this section.

SEC. 2. INFORMATION TO CONSUMERS.

    Section 115(f) of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 
1978 (16 U.S.C. 2625(f)) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph:
            ``(4) For purposes of the standard for information to 
        consumers established by section 113(b)(3), each electric 
        utility shall include in each billing statement transmitted to 
        each electric consumer a statement of the portion of the rate 
        charged to that consumer that represents the cost of emission 
        allowances purchased by the utility for the period covered by 
        such billing statement. In the case of a utility purchasing 
        electric energy in a region for which the Administrator of the 
        Environmental Protection Agency has published the average cost 
        per kilowatt hour of emission allowances associated with 
        electric power sold in that region, the utility shall include 
        the appropriate portion of such costs in each such billing 
        statement. For purposes of adopting the standard under section 
        113(b)(3) as modified by this paragraph, the date 2 years after 
        the date of the enactment of this paragraph shall be 
        substituted for the 2-year period specified in section 
        113(a).''.
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