Ballot Title Setting Board
2023-2024

The title as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

A change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning the rules governing nitrogen oxide emissions from oil and gas operations adopted by the state in December 2023, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting the state from implementing its regulatory programs in a way that is inconsistent with the rules or changing the rules without a written finding that collectively oil and gas operators in the Denver metro front range will not reduce the nitrogen oxide emissions by 50% by 2030 as set by 2017 baseline emissions established in the state air pollution implementation plan.

The ballot title and submission clause as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning the rules governing nitrogen oxide emissions from oil and gas operations adopted by the state in December 2023, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting the state from implementing its regulatory programs in a way that is inconsistent with the rules or changing the rules without a written finding that collectively oil and gas operators in the Denver metro front range will not reduce the nitrogen oxide emissions by 50% by 2030 as set by 2017 baseline emissions established in the state air pollution implementation plan?

Hearing April 17, 2024

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Board members: Theresa Conley, Jeremiah Barry, Kurt Morrison
Hearing adjourned 8:47 PM.

Rehearing April 25, 2024

Motion for rehearing (Goad) was granted only to the extent the Board made changes to the title (3-0).
Board members: Theresa Conley, Jeremiah Barry, Kurt Morrison
Hearing adjourned 4:55 PM.

* Unofficially captioned "Preserve Air Quality Control Commission Regulation" by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.