§ 40-2-133 — Workforce transition planning filing - definition

Colorado § 40-2-133

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 40: Utilities
• Art.: Public Utilities Commission -

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(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:

(a) The number of workers employed by the qualifying retail utility or a
contractor of the qualifying retail utility at the electric generating facility, which
number must include all workers that directly deliver fuel to the electric generating
facility;

(b) The total number of workers whose existing jobs, as a result of the
retirement of the 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 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 qualifying retail utility; and

(IV) Who will be retained to continue to work for the qualifying retail utility in
a new job 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:

(I) Workers from the retired 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) 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.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2019: Entire section added, (SB 19-236), ch. 359, p. 3303, � 8, effective May 30.