§ 51:1602 — Definitions

§1602. Definitions
As used in this Chapter, the following words and phrases have the meaning ascribed
to them in this Section except where otherwise provided in this Chapter or unless a different
meaning is plainly required by the context:
(1) "Coal" means anthracite and bituminous coal, lignite, and any fuel derivative
thereof.
(2) "Conversion" shall mean the voluntary or mandated conversion of industrial and
powerplant fuel requirements in the state from natural gas or petroleum to coal or other
alternate fuels.
(3) "Department of Conservation and Energy" or "department" means the
Department of Conservation and Energy of the state of Louisiana.
(4) "Department of Energy" means the Department of Energy of the United States.
(5) "Exemptions" as used in this Chapter shall mean those criteria established
through rules and regulations of the Department of Conservation and Energy, in accordance
with federal law and in coordination with the rules of applicable federal agencies to permit
a powerplant or industry, when feasible or in the best interest of the state, to postpone or
avoid untimely use of coal or other alternate fuel or conversion of its fuel base from natural
gas or petroleum to coal or other alternate fuel.
(6) "Other alternate fuel" as used in this Chapter shall mean some fuel other than
natural gas, coal, and with the exceptions stated in the Federal Powerplant and Industrial Fuel
Use Act of 1978, oil.
(7) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association,
governmental subdivision, or public or private organization of any character.
(8) "Powerplant" as used in this Chapter means a stationary electric generating unit
consisting of a boiler, gas turbines, or combined cycle unit that produces electricity for sale
or exchange or self-generated use.
(9) "Project costs" means all costs necessary for the planning, development,
acquisition, construction, extension, or improvement of a revenue bond project, including
site acquisition and preparation and installation of utilities, architectural, engineering,
supervising, accounting, inspection, legal, and financing fees and costs, preparation of
feasibility studies and reports, interest on revenue bonds and notes during construction and
for a reasonable period thereafter, establishment of reserves to secure the bonds and notes,
and all other expenditures incidental and necessary or convenient therefor.
(10) "Revenue bond project" or "Revenue Bond Projects" means any one or more of
the facilities authorized to be financed by the issuance of revenue bonds pursuant to the
provisions of this Chapter.
(11) "Revenue bonds" means any bonds or notes issued pursuant to this Chapter.
(12) "Revenues" include fees, proceeds, moneys, receipts, and income derived for
the account of the Department of Conservation and Energy in connection with any revenue
bond project or arising from the project.
(13) "Secretary of Energy" means the secretary of the United States Department of
Energy.
(14) "Secretary of Natural Resources" or "secretary" means the secretary of the
Department of Conservation and Energy of the state of Louisiana or such persons as the
secretary may authorize to act for him as provided in R.S. 51:1603.
(15) "State plan" means a program or plan of the state of Louisiana planned,
prepared, established, and administered by the Department of Conservation and Energy to
implement the intent and purposes of this Chapter.
(16) "Support facility" means any facility providing an intermediate coal or alternate
fuel service essential or useful to the use of or conversion to such fuels by powerplants and
industries, the availability of which will facilitate economical and orderly use of or
conversion to coal or alternate fuel and inure to the benefit of Louisiana citizens using the
products produced by the powerplants and industries which utilize the support facility, and
which the secretary has determined is required by the public interest of the state to be either
licensed by the state under this Chapter, or if no person is interested in obtaining a license
and constructing and operating such support facility, is owned and operated by the
department as elsewhere provided in this Chapter. Support facilities shall include, without
exclusion, facilities for loading and unloading, cleaning, blending, or storing coal or alternate
fuel.

Legislative History

Acts 1979, No. 605, §1; Acts 1983, No. 705, §5, eff. Sept. 1, 1983; Acts 2023, No. 150, §21, eff. Jan. 10, 2024.