Colorado § 8-83-505 - Utility workforce transition plans - reemployment of affected workers.

§ 8-83-505. Utility workforce transition plans - reemployment of affected workers.

(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.

Source: L. 2019: Entire part added, (HB 19-1314), ch. 323, p. 2993, § 1, effective May 28.