STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 3207

with Senate Floor Amendments

(Proposed by Senator B. SMITH)

ADOPTED: FEBRUARY 21, 2019

      These floor amendments:

      1)   amend the findings and declarations section;

      2)   amend the definition of “greenhouse gas” to delete “black carbon” from the definition;

      3)   specify that the rules and regulations to be adopted by the DEP are to identify all significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions, including short-lived climate pollutants;

      4)   provide that the report to be prepared within a year after the bill is enacted into law is to be prepared by the DEP, in consultation with the Board of Public Utilities, and is to include measures necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including short-lived climate pollutants, to achieve the 2050 limit and any established interim benchmarks; and

      5)   delete section 6 of the bill which would have required the DEP to develop a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants in the State.