Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 24 - Location and Construction of Electric Power Generating Facilities › Rule 199-24.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
As used in this chapter:
"Acid Rain Program"
means the sulfur dioxide
				  and nitrogen oxides air pollution control program established pursuant to Title
				  IV of the Clean Air Act,  42 U.S.C. Section 7401, et seq., as amended by  Pub. L. 101-549, November 15, 1990.
"Act"
means Iowa Code chapter 476A entitled
				  Electric Power Generators.
"Agency"
means an agency as defined in Iowa
				  Code section 17A.2(1).
"Allowance"
means an authorization,
				  allocated by the federal Environmental Protection Agency under the Acid Rain
				  Program, to emit up to one ton of sulfur dioxide, during or after a specified
				  calendar year.
"Applicant"
means the person or persons who
				  make an application for a certificate for a facility or an amendment to a
				  certificate for a facility under the Act. For projects with more than one
				  participant, the applicant may be that person designated by and acting on
				  behalf of the participants.
"Application"
means an application for a
				  certificate or an amendment to a certificate submitted to the commission
				  pursuant to the Act.
"Certificate"
means a certificate as defined
				  in Iowa Code section 476A.1.
"Commission"
means the utilities
				  commission.
"Contested case proceeding"
means the
				  contested case proceeding before the board prescribed by Iowa Code section
				  476A.4.
"Facility"
means any electric power
				  generating plant or combination of plants at a single site, owned by any
				  person, with a maximum generator nameplate capacity of 25 megawatts of
				  electricity or more and those associated transmission lines connecting the
				  generating plant to either a power transmission system or an interconnected
				  primary transmission system or both. This term includes any generation addition
				  that increases the total maximum generator nameplate capacity at one site to 25
				  megawatts or more, but does not include those transmission lines beyond the
				  generation station's substation.
"Interested agency"
means an agency, other
				  than a regulatory agency, which the commission in its discretion determines to
				  have a legitimate interest in the disposition of the application.
"Intervenor"
means a person who received
				  notice under 24.6(2)
"b," "c," "d," "e,"
or
"f"
and has filed with the commission a written notice of
				  intervention, or a person granted permission to intervene by the commission
				  after filing a petition pursuant to rule 199-7.13 (17A,476).
"Participant"
means any person who either
				  jointly or severally owns or operates a proposed facility or significant
				  alteration thereto or who has contracted or intends to contract for a purchase
				  of electricity produced by the subject facility.
"Party"
means each person or agency named or
				  admitted as a party, including the applicant, intervenors, and consumer
				  advocate.
"Person"
means individual, corporation,
				  cooperative, government or governmental subdivision or agency, partnership,
				  association or other legal entity.
"Public utility"
means a public utility as
				  defined in Iowa Code section 476.1.
"Regulatory agency"
means a state agency
				  which issues licenses or permits required for the construction, operation or
				  maintenance of a facility pursuant to statutes or rules in effect on the date
				  on which an application for a certificate is accepted by the commission.
"Significant alteration"
means:
a. A change in the generic type of fuel used
				by the major electric generating facility; or
b. Any change in the location, construction,
				maintenance, or operation of equipment at an existing facility that increases
				the maximum generator nameplate capacity of the facility by at least 10 percent
				and at least 25 megawatts.
"Site"
means the land on which the
				  generating unit of the facility, and any cooling facilities, cooling water
				  reservoirs, security exclusion areas, and other necessary components of the
				  facility, are proposed to be located.
"Site impact area"
means the area within the
				  state of Iowa within a ten-mile radius of the intersection of the transverse
				  centerline axis and longitudinal centerline axis of the generator or all such
				  generators where the proposed facility includes multiple generators.
"Zoning authority"
means any city or county
				  zoning authority in whose jurisdictional area a proposed facility site or
				  portion thereof is located.