Clean coal task force.

WORKING DRAFT

ORIGINAL HOUSE

BILL

NO.
0111

ENROLLED ACT NO. 44, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SIXTIETH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2009 GENERAL SESSION

AN ACT relating to
the
clean coal task force;
extending the existence of the clean coal task force as specified;
requiring annual reports;
re
appropriat
ing funds
to be used for clean coal research;
providing an appropriation;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 21
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17
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121 is created to read:

21
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17
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121.

Clean coal research task force; members; compensation; proposals; report.

(a)

The

clean coal research task force
created pursuant to
2007
Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 186, Section 2

shall exist until June 30, 2013.
The task force

shall
consist of the
voting
members of the
Wyoming
energy resources council created pursuant to W.S. 21
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17
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117(e), or their designees.

(b)

The task force shall meet at the call of the chairman.
The task force shall issue requests for proposals for research projects into clean coal technologies. The task force shall
review and evaluate proposals for research into clean coal technologies, subject to the following:

(i)

Proposals may be received from academic institutions and private industry proponents;

(ii)

Proposals shall be evaluated competitively on their probable benefits to the state of
Wyoming
and coal programs within this state;

(iii)

Proposals shall enhance and improve clean coal technologies with an emphasis on methods of combusting sub-bituminous coal at high altitudes.

(c)

The task force shall issue a report to the governor and the joint minerals, business and economic development interim committee
annually,
no later than September 30, including, but not limited to, recommendations regarding funding specific proposals for research into clean coal technologies in
Wyoming
.

(d)

The task force shall be staffed by the governor's office with support from the
University
of
Wyoming
school of energy resources. The task force may contract for administrative and research services to aid in preparation of the
task force report.

(e)

Members of the task force who are not legislators shall not receive a salary but shall receive reimbursement for necessary travel and per diem expenses in the manner and amount provided for state employees under W.S. 9
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3
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102 and 9
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3
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103. Members of the task force who are legislators shall be paid salary, per diem and travel expenses as provided in W.S. 28
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5
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101 for their official duties as members of the task force.

(f)

The clean coal task force may award
funds in the clean coal technology account to proposals
for clean coal after submitting the task force's recommendations to the joint minerals, business and economic development interim
committee.

Section
2
.

W.S. 39
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14
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802(b) is amended to read:

39
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802.

Clean coal research account created; funds deposited; use of funds.

(b)

Deposits into the account created by subsection (a) of this section shall only be expended
upon appropriation by the legislature

pursuant to W.S. 21
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17
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1
2
1(f)
.
Funds deposited in the account shall not be expended until a dollar for dollar match has been provided from
nonstate
of
Wyoming
public
funds.

Notwithstanding W.S. 9
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2
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1008 or 9
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4
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207, unexpended funds shall not revert.

Section 3.

2008
Wyoming
Session Laws, Chapter 48, Section 320(a)(vii) is amended to read:

Section 3
20
.

(a)

No application to the federal office of surface mining for grants from the state of Wyoming's share of abandoned mine land funds from the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Amendments of 2006, Section 411(h)(i), pursuant to 2007 H.R. 6111, shall be made except as expressly authorized by the legislature. The legislature authorizes the department of environmental quality to submit grant applications to the federal office of surface mining for distribution of a portion of such funds for the period ending June 30, 2009, for the following projects:

(vii)

Three million eight hundred thousand dollars ($3,800,000.00) for clean coal technology research to be expended pursuant to
2007 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 186, Section 2(f) as created in Section 325 of this act

W.S. 21
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121(f)
for the purpose of clean coal technology research
.

Section 4.

2007
Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 186, Sections 2 and 3 and 2008 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 48, Section 325(b), Section 3(b) are repealed.

Section 5.

(a)

Any funds remaining
from
the appropriation provided in
2007
Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 186, Section 3(b), as amended by 2008
Wyoming
Session Laws, Chapter 48, Section 325(b) are hereby reappropriated to
the
account created under W.S. 39
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14
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802 for the
purpose of clean coal technology

research.

(b)

Any funds remaining under the appropriation provided in
2007
Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 186, Section 3(a) are hereby reappropriated to the governor's office for expenses incurred by the clean coal task force.

(c)

There is appropriated
sev
en thousand
five hundred
dollars ($
7
,
5
00.00) from the general fund to the legislative service office for compensation of legislative members serving on the
clean coal task force.

(d)

Funds appropriated under subsections (b) and (c) of this section are appropriated
for the period beginning with the effective date of this act and ending June 30, 201
0
.

Th
e
s
e
appropriation
s
shall only be expended for the purpose of
staffing the clean coal task force and for expenses incurred by the clean coal task force.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, th
e
appropriation
under subsection (a) of this section
shall not be transferred or expended for any other purpose and any unexpended, unobligated funds remaining from this appropriation shall
not
revert as provided by law on
June 30, 2010.
Th
e
appropriation
s under subsections (b) and (c) of this section
shall be included in the
governor's and the legislative service office's
2011-2012 standard biennial budget request
s
.

Section 6.

This act is effective immediately upon co
m
pletion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constit
u
tion.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the House.

Chief Clerk

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