{"data":{"id":"us-co/c.r.s.-8-83-505","jurisdiction":"us-co","citation":"C.R.S. § 8-83-505","heading":"Utility workforce transition plans - reemployment of affected workers.","body":"(1) Within thirty days after the approval to accelerate retirement of a generating unit by the utility's governing body and in no case less than six months before the retirement of an electric coal-fueled generating unit that has a nameplate capacity of at least fifty megawatts, the owner or operating agent of that unit shall submit to the office and to the affected community a workforce transition plan.\n\n(2) To the extent practicable, a workforce transition plan must include estimates of:\n\n(a) The number of workers employed by the electric utility or a contractor of the utility at the coal-fueled electric generating facility, which number must include all workers that directly deliver coal to the electric utility;\n\n(b) The total number of workers whose existing jobs, as a result of the retirement of the coal-fueled electric generating facility:\n\n(I) Will be retained; and\n\n(II) Will be eliminated;\n\n(c) With respect to the workers whose existing jobs will be eliminated due to the retirement of the coal-fueled electric generating facility, the total number and the number by job classification of workers:\n\n(I) Whose employment will end without them being offered other employment;\n\n(II) Who will retire as planned, be offered early retirement, or leave on their own;\n\n(III) Who will be retained by being transferred to other electric generating facilities or offered other employment by the electric utility; and\n\n(IV) Who will be retained to continue to work for the electric utility in a new job classification; and\n\n(d) If the electric utility is replacing the coal-fueled electric generating facility being retired with a new electric generating facility, the number of:\n\n(I) Workers from the retired coal-fueled electric generating facility who will be employed at the new electric generating facility; and\n\n(II) Jobs at the new electric generating facility that will be outsourced to contractors or subcontractors.\n\n(3) This section does not apply to an electric coal-fueled generating unit owned in whole or in part by a qualifying retail utility for which the qualifying retail utility, as that term is used in section 40-2-124, has submitted a workforce transition plan in an electric resource plan filed with the public utilities commission.","path":["Title 8 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY","Article 83 - Workforce Development","Part 5 - JUST TRANSITION SUPPORT FOR COAL-RELATED JOBS"],"source_url":"https://olls.info/crs/crs2026-title-08.htm","current_through":"Colorado Revised Statutes 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:37:45Z","sha256":"dd89a914112c238975aaba4337b422d0c52fcd662540936ba1a426e00598cdee","source_id":"us-co","stale":false,"prev":"us-co/c.r.s.-8-83-504.5","next":"us-co/c.r.s.-8-83-506"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}