Resolution Concerning the EPA's Underground Injection Control Class VI Rule

Model Bill Info
Bill Title	Resolutoin Concerning the EPA's Underground Injection Control Clacc VI Rule
Date Introduced	November 30, 2018
Date Accessed	December 21, 2018
Type	Model Resolution
Status	Draft
Task Forces	Energy, Environment and Agriculture
Keywords	Environmental Stewardship

Act to Clarify State Jurisdiction over Public Lands

Model Resolution
WHEREAS, clean coal power plants and other industrial facilities are required to receive approval for carbon sequestration under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Class VI rule of the Underground Injection Control program established during the Obama Administration, and

WHEREAS, the uncertainty surrounding Class VI approvals may stymie project investments that would lead to more reliable and clean electric generation, and

WHEREAS, the failure of the Obama Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency to timely approve Class VI permits has been a source of project delays and unnecessary costs, and

WHEREAS, the developer of one of the largest clean coal projects cited Class VI as one of the reasons the project failed to move forward, and

WHEREAS, the Environmental Protection Agency has failed to timely reassess whether modifications to the Class VI regulations are “appropriate or necessary” after its stated intent to do so when the rule was originally promulgated, and

WHEREAS, the Trump Administration supported North Dakota’s Class VI primacy application because of its federalist approach to protecting drinking water supplies, and

WHEREAS, 34 states already have primacy over other aspects of the Underground Injection Control program.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the State of [NAME] directs its [AGENCY] to develop [and execute] a plan to apply for Class VI primacy from the Environmental Protection Agency.