8-83-505. Utility workforce transition plans - reemployment of affected workers.
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(1)Within thirty days after the approval to accelerate retirement of a generating unit by the utility's governing body and in no case less than six months before the retirement of an electric coal- fueled generating unit that has a nameplate capacity of at least fifty megawatts, the owner or operating agent of that unit shall submit to the office and to the affected community a workforce transition plan.
(2)To the extent practicable, a workforce transition plan must include estimates of:
(a)The number of workers employed by the electric utility or a contractor of the utility at the coal-fueled electric generating facility, which number must include all workers that directly deliver coal to the electric utility;
(b)The total number of workers whose existing jobs, as a result of the retirement of the coal-fueled electric generating facility:
(I)Will be retained; and
(II)Will be eliminated;
(c)With respect to the workers whose existing jobs will be eliminated due to the retirement of the coal-fueled electric generating facility, the total number and the number by job classification of workers:
(I)Whose employment will end without them being offered other employment;
(II)Who will retire as planned, be offered early retirement, or leave on their own;
(III)Who will be retained by being transferred to other electric generating facilities or offered other employment by the electric utility; and
(IV)Who will be retained to continue to work for the electric utility in a new job classification; and
(d)If the electric utility is replacing the coal-fueled electric generating facility being retired with a new electric generating facility, the number of:
(I)Workers from the retired coal-fueled electric generating facility who will be employed at the new electric generating facility; and
(II)Jobs at the new electric generating facility that will be outsourced to contractors or subcontractors.
(3)This section does not apply to an electric coal-fueled generating unit owned in whole or in part by a qualifying retail utility for which the qualifying retail utility, as that term is used
in section 40-2-124, has submitted a workforce transition plan in an electric resource plan filed with the public utilities commission.