(1) A qualifying retail utility regulated by the commission that submits a filing, including a resource plan or application, that includes a proposed accelerated retirement of an electric generating facility shall also include a workforce transition plan as part of its filing.
(2) To the extent practicable, a workforce transition plan must include estimates of:
The number of workers employed by the qualifying retail utility or a contractor of thequalifying retail utility at the electric generating facility, which number must include all workers that directly deliver fuel to the electric generating facility;
The total number of workers whose existing jobs, as a result of the retirement of theelectric generating facility:
Will be retained; and
Will be eliminated;
(c) With respect to the workers whose existing jobs will be eliminated due to the retirement of the electric generating facility, the total number and the number by job classification of workers:
Whose employment will end without them being offered other employment;
Who will retire as planned, be offered early retirement, or leave on their own;
Who will be retained by being transferred to other electric generating facilities oroffered other employment by the qualifying retail utility; and
Who will be retained to continue to work for the qualifying retail utility in a newjob classification; and
(d) If the qualifying retail utility is replacing the electric generating facility being retired with a new electric generating facility, the number of:
Workers from the retired electric generating facility who will be employed at the newelectric generating facility; and
Jobs at the new electric generating facility that will be outsourced to contractors orsubcontractors.
(3) As used in this section, "qualifying retail utility" has the meaning described in section 40-2-124 (1); except that the term does not mean a municipally owned utility or a cooperative electric association.
Source: L. 2019: Entire section added, (SB 19-236), ch. 359, p. 3303, § 8, effective May 30.