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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. 
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 
A BILL 
To require electric utilities to notify electric consumers of 
the cost of emission allowances associated with the elec-
tricity delivered to such consumers, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. EPA PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION. 
In carrying out any Federal greenhouse gas regu-
latory program that provides for the sale of emission al-
lowances in connection with an absolute limit on green-
house gas emissions, the Administrator of the Environ-
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mental 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 pro-
vide 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 Poli-
cies Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2625(f)) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) For purposes of the standard for informa-
tion 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 allow-
ances 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 
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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 en-
actment of this paragraph shall be substituted for 
the 2-year period specified in section 113(a).’’. 
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