Amend Senate Resolution 7 as follows:
   1.  By striking page 1, line 1, through page 3, line 3, and inserting: 

   <A Resolution urging the nullification of rules adopted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency relating to national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants for reciprocating internal combustion engines.

   WHEREAS, the United States Environmental Protection Agency in March 2000 finalized national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants for reciprocating internal combustion engines which took effect in May 2010; and
   WHEREAS, the rules would have a devastating impact on Iowa’s municipal utilities due to the fact that the municipal utilities collectively operate 287 diesel electric generators with a combined nameplate capacity of 548 megawatts; and
   WHEREAS, these rules impact 67 utilities that serve a total of 106,000 customers with an average of 1,560 customer meters per utility; and
   WHEREAS, Iowa’s municipal electric utilities operate diesel generators both to be able to keep the lights on when transmissions lines are downed by ice, wind, floods, or other natural disasters or man-made emergencies, and to meet the obligation to own or buy reserve capacity; and
   WHEREAS, the rules allow a municipal electric utility to run diesel generators in an emergency, but effectively take away the ability of a small community to afford them by prohibiting the receipt of payment or credit for reserve capacity; and
   WHEREAS, the diesel generators run only a few hours a year, with averages ranging from 14 to 46 hours depending on power supply arrangements; and
   WHEREAS, the application of the rules requires that each of these engines either be retrofit, replaced, or removed, resulting in huge cost increases to the citizen owners of these utilities in the form of rate increases and lost capacity; and
   WHEREAS, the cost estimate if all 287 diesel generators were to be retrofit for compliance over a 10-year period is $36 million, which is an average cost of $34.14 per year per customer with costs as high as $203 per year per customer or more, and such cost estimates would increase beyond this amount if diesel generators are replaced or taken out of service; NOW THEREFORE,

   BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the United States Environmental Protection Agency is urged to rescind the national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants for reciprocating internal combustion engines; and
   BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That Iowa’s Congressional delegation is urged to take action to nullify the rules; and
   BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Secretary of the Senate shall forward a copy of this resolution to the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and all members of Iowa’s Congressional delegation.>

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JOHN P. KIBBIE

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MERLIN BARTZ