Rule-Making Archive

Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC) Rule-making Documents

• Proposed rule-making - CR-102
• Pre-proposal statement of inquiry - CR-101

Session law requiring Ecology to adopt rules.

• Chapter 80.80 RCW
• Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6001

Reports and Studies

California

• WESTCARB Preliminary Assessment of the Potential for CO2 Storage in Washington's and Oregon's Deep Saline Formations
• California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Adopted Interim Rules for GHG EPS (See Attachment 7)
• CPUC Interim Opinion on Phase I Issues: GHG EPS
• CPUC Interim Opinion on Reporting and Verification of GHGs in the Electricity Sector
• California Energy Commission (CEC) Adopted Regulations Establishing a GHG EPS for Baseload Generation of Local Publicly - Owned Electric Utilities

Carbon Dioxide Sequestration

• Environmental Bonds and the Problem of Long-Term Carbon Sequestration
• Storage of Carbon Dioxide in Geologic Structures - A Legal and Regulatory Guide for States and Provinces
• Geologic Carbon Sequestration Strategies for California, The Assembly Bill 1925 Report to the California Legislature
• Potential for carbon dioxide sequestration in flood basalts
• Experimental evaluation of in situ CO2-water-rock reactions during CO2 injection in basaltic rocks: Implications for geological CO2 sequestration
• Commercial Scale Storage Timeline with Cost & Uncertainty
• Geological carbon sequestration options in WA
• The Future of Coal
• Carbon Dioxide Sequestration: Interim Report on Identified Statutory and Regulatory Issues (New Mexico)
• Policy Context of Geologic Carbon Sequestration (Union of Concerned Scientists)
• IPCC Special Report: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage
• White Paper - Feasibility of Using Geologic Formations to Sequester Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
• EPA General Guidance Document for Pilot Geologic Sequestration Projects