Senate Engrossed

State of Arizona Senate Fifty-third Legislature First Regular Session 2017

SENATE CONCURRENT MEMORIAL 1004

 

A CONCURRENT MEMORIAL

 

urging the united states congress, environmental protection agency and department of energy to repeal and replace the clean power plan with an acceptable coal-fired electricity generation program.

 

 

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To the Congress of the United States of America, the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Secretary of the United States Department of Energy:

Your memorialist respectfully represents:

Whereas, as a result of internal collaboration among United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) managers and staff without adequate or fair stakeholder input, participation or hearings, the Clean Power Plan mandate was implemented without consideration of strategic operations or state and local plans; and

Whereas, the coal-fired electricity generation industry is a valuable industry in Arizona and the United States, and the EPA's Clean Power Plan has prevented the industry from moving forward in a safe and businesslike manner; and

Whereas, Arizona currently is a major generator of electricity in the United States, contributing energy to help drive the industrial complex and manufacturing successes of this country; and

Whereas, the people of Arizona rely on electricity generation to support its infrastructure and its mining and manufacturing industries, to benefit Arizona's outdoor recreation, lifestyle and employment, and to fuel this state's economy and tax base; and

Whereas, Arizona schools, as well as state and local governments, are among the benefactors of electricity generation; and

Whereas, the reduction of affordable energy production will reduce the nation's gross domestic product, put America at a competitive disadvantage and significantly increase the United States' vulnerability in a very precarious world.

Wherefore your memorialist, the Senate of the State of Arizona, the House of Representatives concurring, prays:

1.  That the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency repeal the Clean Power Plan and work with the states to develop a responsible replacement program that is acceptable to all parties concerned with coal-fired electricity generation.

2.  That the Secretary of the United States Department of Energy support and develop a strategic plan for responsibly working with the coal‑fired electricity generation industry and local governments in attaining the best technology available for clean, economic and efficient coal-fired systems.

3.  That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit copies of this Memorial to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of the United States Department of Energy and each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona.