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Senate Bill 0098
    Florida Senate - 1998                                    SB 98

    By Senator Crist





    20-157A-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to electrical power plants;

  3         prohibiting the use of orimulsion as a fuel to

  4         generate electricity; providing for an

  5         independent environmental impact study and

  6         report to the Legislature; providing an

  7         effective date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  An electrical power plant may not use any

12  fossil fuel known as orimulsion, or any combination of water

13  and a heavy hydrocarbon known as bitumen found in or in the

14  vicinity of the Orinoco River Basin in Venezuela, to generate

15  electricity in this state. An independent environmental impact

16  study shall be undertaken and a report with recommendations

17  shall be submitted to the President of the Senate and the

18  Speaker of the House of Representatives by January 1, 1999.

19  When the report is submitted to the Legislature, the ban may

20  be removed if appropriate.

21         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

22  law.

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25                          SENATE SUMMARY

26    Prohibits the use of orimulsion as a fuel to generate
      electricity in the state. Provides for an independent
27    environmental impact study and report to the Legislature.

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