1. a. In the absence of a controlling federal statute or program which the commissioner determines is consistent with the purpose and intent of this title, the department shall formulate, no later than January first, nineteen hundred ninety-one, a final control target to bring about reductions in the state's contribution to the total sulfate deposition at each sensitive receptor area.

b. As part of such determination, the commissioner shall provide a written analysis of any actions taken or being contemplated by states that border on or are to the east of the Mississippi river or by the Canadian provinces of Ontario or Quebec and the potential or estimated effect of any such action on acid deposition in sensitive receptor areas.

c. Any such final control target formulated pursuant to this subdivision shall be submitted, in the form of legislative recommendations, to the governor and the legislature.

2. The department shall not adopt or implement the final control target until such time as further specific statutory authorization shall have been enacted, except that any such final control target shall permit the use of all reasonable sulfur dioxide emission control techniques as identified in subdivision two of section 19-0909 of this title.