---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7651e"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7651e"
heading: "Allowances for States with emissions rates at or below 0.80 lbs/mmBtu"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7651e"
units:
  - "Chapter 85 — Air Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter IV–A — Acid Deposition Control"
---

# §7651e. Allowances for States with emissions rates at or below 0.80 lbs/mmBtu

- (a) **Election of Governor—** In addition to [basic Phase II allowance allocations](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=28), upon the election of the Governor of any [State](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=14), with a 1985 [state](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=14)-wide annual sulfur dioxide emissions rate equal to or less than, 0.80 lbs/mmBtu, averaged over all fossil fuel-fired utility steam generating [units](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=15), beginning January 1, 2000, and for each calendar year thereafter until and including 2009, the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) shall allocate, in lieu of other [Phase II bonus allowance allocations](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=29), [allowances](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=3) from the [reserve](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=13) created pursuant to [section 7651d(a)(2) of this title](/usc/42/7651d.md?p=a-2) to all such [units](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=15) in the [State](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=14) in an amount equal to 125,000 multiplied by the [unit](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=15)’s pro rata share of electricity generated in calendar year 1985 at fossil fuel-fired utility steam [units](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=15) in all [States](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=14) eligible for the election.
- (b) **Notification of Administrator—** Pursuant to [section 7651b(a)(1) of this title](/usc/42/7651b.md?p=a-1), each Governor of a [State](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=14) eligible to make an election under paragraph[^1] (a) shall notify the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) of such election. In the event that the Governor of any such [State](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=14) fails to notify the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) of the Governor’s elections, the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) shall allocate [allowances](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=3) pursuant to [section 7651d of this title](/usc/42/7651d.md).
- (c) **Allowances after January 1, 2010—** After January 1, 2010, the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) shall allocate [allowances](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=3) to [units](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=15) subject to the provisions of this section pursuant to [section 7651d of this title](/usc/42/7651d.md).

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “subsection”.

## Source credit

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title IV, § 406, as added Pub. L. 101–549, title IV, § 401, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2613.)