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Overview and discussion of the key regulatory issues in implementing the electric utility provisions of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5485715
Title 4 of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA) created a new regulatory instrument that electric power producers (utilities and others) will be required to possess and expand in order to emit sulfur dioxide (SO{sub 2}) into the atmosphere. The emission allowance system created by the CAAA will be grafted onto an already complex system of state and federal electric utility regulation. How public utility commissions (PUCs) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulate these allowances will greatly affect the decisions that electric utilities under their jurisdiction make to comply with the CAAA and, therefore, the cost of compliance to ratepayers. 2 figs., 9 tabs.
Research Organization:
National Regulatory Research Inst., Columbus, OH (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
NARUC; NRRI; National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, Washington, DC (United States); National Regulatory Research Inst., Columbus, OH (United States)
OSTI ID:
5485715
Report Number(s):
NRRI-91-10; ON: TI91017942
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English