Ballot Title Setting Board
2009-2010

The title as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

An amendment to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning a carbon dioxide emission limit for certain providers of retail electric service, and, in connection therewith, establishing by January 1, 2025, a limit of no more than one thousand one hundred pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour of generation on the average emissions from electric generation facilities for each provider of retail electric service that is a municipally owned utility or a cooperative electric association previously exempt from regulation, and exempting certain electric generation facilities from the limit.

The ballot title and submission clause as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning a carbon dioxide emission limit for certain providers of retail electric service, and, in connection therewith, establishing by January 1, 2025, a limit of no more than one thousand one hundred pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour of generation on the average emissions from electric generation facilities for each provider of retail electric service that is a municipally owned utility or a cooperative electric association previously exempt from regulation, and exempting certain electric generation facilities from the limit?

Hearing April 21, 2010

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 12:44 p.m.

Hearing April 30, 2010

Motions for Rehearing granted in part to the extent Board amended titles; denied in all other respects.
Hearing adjourned 10:43 a.m.

* Unofficially captioned “Standards for Retail Electric Service Generation” by legislative staff for tracking purposes. Such caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.