71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
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LC 3485
A-Engrossed
House Bill 3733
Ordered by the House April 10
Including House Amendments dated April 10
Sponsored by Representative KING; Representatives ACKERMAN,
BARNHART, BECK, DOYLE, HILL, JOHNSON, MORRISETTE, WITT,
Senators CORCORAN, SHIELDS
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure.
Modifies definition of energy efficient appliance for purposes
of alternative energy device tax credit program to include smart
energy technology devices. Modifies definition of energy facility
for purposes of renewable energy resource facility tax credit
program to include smart energy technology devices. Modifies
definition of small scale local energy project for purposes of
loan program to include smart energy technology devices. Allows
Office of Energy to spend moneys for development and
implementation of smart energy technologies. { + Requires Oregon
Department of Administrative Services, in consultation with
office, to report to Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly and every
10 years thereafter regarding technologies used by state agencies
to reduce energy consumption. + }
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to energy technology; creating new provisions; and
amending ORS 469.160, 469.185, 470.050, 757.600 and 757.676.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 469.160 is amended to read:
469.160. As used in ORS 316.116, 317.115 and 469.160 to
469.180:
(1) 'Alternative energy device' means:
(a) Any system, mechanism or series of mechanisms, including
photovoltaic systems, that uses solar radiation or wind for space
heating, cooling or electrical energy for one or more dwellings
that meets or exceeds 10 percent of the total energy requirement
for the dwelling or dwellings;
(b) Any system that uses solar radiation for:
(A) Domestic water heating; or
(B) Swimming pool, spa or hot tub heating and that meets the
requirements set forth in ORS 316.116;
(c) A ground water heat pump and ground loop system;
(d) A wind powered turbine that generates electricity;
(e) Any wind powered device used to offset or supplement the
use of electricity by performing a specific task such as pumping
water;
(f) Equipment used in the production of alternative fuels;
(g) A generator powered by alternative fuels and used to
produce electricity;
(h) A fuel cell;
(i) An energy efficient appliance; or
(j) An alternative fuel device.
(2) 'Alternative fuel device' means any of the following:
(a) An alternative fuel vehicle;
(b) Related equipment; or
(c) A fueling station necessary to operate an alternative fuel
vehicle.
(3) 'Alternative fuel vehicle' means a motor vehicle as defined
in ORS 801.360 that is:
(a) Registered in this state; and
(b) Manufactured or modified to use an alternative fuel,
including but not limited to electricity, natural gas, ethanol,
methanol, propane and any other fuel approved in rules adopted by
the administrator of the Office of Energy that produces less
exhaust emissions than vehicles fueled by gasoline or diesel.
Determination that a vehicle is an alternative fuel vehicle shall
be made without regard to energy consumption savings.
(4) 'Coefficient of performance' means the ratio calculated by
dividing the usable output energy by the electrical input energy.
Both energy values must be expressed in equivalent units.
(5) 'Contractor' means a person whose trade or business
consists of offering for sale an alternative energy device,
construction service, installation service or design service.
(6)(a) 'Cost' means the actual cost of the acquisition,
construction and installation of the alternative energy device
paid by the taxpayer for the alternative energy device.
(b) For an alternative fuel vehicle, 'cost' means the
difference between the cost of the alternative fuel vehicle and
the same vehicle or functionally similar vehicle manufactured to
use conventional gasoline or diesel fuel or, in the case of
modification of an existing vehicle, the cost of the
modification. ' Cost' does not include any amounts paid for
remodification of the same vehicle.
(c) For a fueling station necessary to operate an alternative
fuel vehicle, 'cost' means the cost to the contractor of
constructing or installing the fueling station in a dwelling and
of making the fuel station operational in accordance with the
specifications issued under ORS 469.160 to 469.180 and any rules
adopted by the administrator of the Office of Energy.
(d) For related equipment, 'cost' means the cost of the related
equipment and any modifications or additions to the related
equipment necessary to prepare the related equipment for use in
converting a vehicle to alternative fuel use.
(7) 'Domestic water heating' means the heating of water used in
a dwelling for bathing, clothes washing, dishwashing and other
related functions.
(8) 'Dwelling' means real or personal property ordinarily
inhabited as a principal or secondary residence and located
within this state. 'Dwelling' includes, but is not limited to, an
individual unit within multiple unit residential housing.
(9) 'Energy efficient appliance' means a clothes washer,
clothes dryer, water heater, refrigerator, freezer, dishwasher,
appliance designed to heat or cool a dwelling { + , smart energy
technology device and related smart energy technology equipment
+ }or other major household appliance that has been certified by
the Office of Energy to have premium energy efficiency
characteristics.
(10) 'First year energy yield' of an alternative energy device
is the usable energy produced under average environmental
conditions in one year.
(11) 'Fueling station' includes but is not limited to a
compressed natural gas compressor fueling system or an electric
charging system for vehicle power battery charging.
(12) 'Placed in service' means:
(a) The date an alternative energy device is ready and
available to produce usable energy or save energy.
(b) For an alternative fuel vehicle:
(A) In the case of purchase, the date that the alternative fuel
vehicle is first purchased as an alternative fuel vehicle ready
and available for use.
(B) In the case of modification, the date that the modification
is completed and the vehicle is ready and available for use as an
alternative fuel vehicle.
(c) For a fueling station necessary to operate an alternative
fuel vehicle, the date that the fueling station is first
operational.
(d) For related equipment, the date that the equipment is first
operational.
(13) 'Related equipment' means equipment necessary to convert a
vehicle to use an alternative fuel.
SECTION 2. ORS 469.185 is amended to read:
469.185. As used in ORS 469.185 to 469.225 and 469.878:
(1) 'Alternative fuel vehicle' means a vehicle as defined by
the administrator of the Office of Energy by rule that is used
primarily in connection with the conduct of a trade or business
and that is manufactured or modified to use an alternative fuel,
including but not limited to electricity, ethanol, methanol,
gasohol and propane or natural gas, regardless of energy
consumption savings.
(2) 'Cost' means the capital costs and expenses necessarily
incurred in the acquisition, erection, construction and
installation of a facility.
(3) 'Energy facility' means any capital investment for which
the first year energy savings yields a simple payback period of
greater than one year. An energy facility includes:
(a) Any land, structure, building, installation, excavation,
machinery, equipment or device, or any addition to,
reconstruction of or improvement of, land or an existing
structure, building, installation, excavation, machinery,
equipment or device necessarily acquired, erected, constructed or
installed by any person in connection with the conduct of a trade
or business and actually used in the processing or utilization of
renewable energy resources to:
(A) Replace a substantial part or all of an existing use of
electricity, petroleum or natural gas;
(B) Provide the initial use of energy where electricity,
petroleum or natural gas would have been used;
(C) Generate electricity to replace an existing source of
electricity or to provide a new source of electricity for sale by
or use in the trade or business; or
(D) Perform a process that obtains energy resources from
material that would otherwise be solid waste as defined in ORS
459.005.
(b) Any acquisition of, addition to, reconstruction of or
improvement of land or an existing structure, building,
installation, excavation, machinery, equipment or device
necessarily acquired, erected, constructed or installed by any
person in connection with the conduct of a trade or business in
order to substantially reduce the consumption of purchased
energy.
(c) A necessary feature of a new commercial building or
multiple unit dwelling, as dwelling is defined by ORS 469.160,
that causes that building or dwelling to exceed an energy
performance standard in the state building code.
(d) The replacement of an electric motor with another electric
motor that substantially reduces the consumption of electricity.
{ +
(e) Any acquisition and installation of a smart energy
technology device, including related equipment, that reduces the
consumption or timing of consumption of electricity. + }
(4) 'Facility' means an energy facility, recycling facility,
transportation facility, alternative fuel vehicle or facilities
necessary to operate alternative fuel vehicles, including but not
limited to an alternative fuel vehicle refueling station.
(5) 'Qualified transit pass contract' means a purchase
agreement entered into between a transportation provider and an
employer, the terms of which obligate the employer to purchase
transit passes on behalf of the employer's employees over a
specified period of time.
(6) 'Recycling facility' means equipment used by a trade or
business solely for recycling:
(a) Including:
(A) Equipment used solely for hauling and refining used oil;
(B) New vehicles or modifications to existing vehicles used
solely to transport used recyclable materials that cannot be used
further in their present form or location such as glass, metal,
paper, aluminum, rubber and plastic;
(C) Trailers, racks or bins that are used for hauling used
recyclable materials and are added to or attached to existing
waste collection vehicles; and
(D) Any equipment used solely for processing recyclable
materials such as bailers, flatteners, crushers, separators and
scales.
(b) But not including equipment used for transporting or
processing scrap materials that are recycled as a part of the
normal operation of a trade or business as defined by the
administrator.
(7)(a) 'Renewable energy resource' includes, but is not limited
to, straw, forest slash, wood waste or other wastes from farm or
forest land, industrial waste, solar energy, wind power, water
power or geothermal energy.
(b) 'Renewable energy resource' does not include a
hydroelectric generating facility larger than one megawatt of
installed capacity unless the facility qualifies as a research,
development or demonstration facility.
(8) 'Transportation facility' means a transportation project
that reduces energy use during commuting to and from work or
during work-related travel, and may be further defined by the
Office of Energy by rule. 'Transportation facility' includes, but
is not limited to, a qualified transit pass contract or a
transportation services contract.
(9) 'Transportation provider' means a public, private or
nonprofit entity that provides transportation services to members
of the public.
(10) 'Transportation services contract' means a contract that
is related to a transportation facility, and may be further
defined by the Office of Energy by rule.
SECTION 3. ORS 470.050 is amended to read:
470.050. As used in this chapter, unless the context requires
otherwise:
(1) 'Administrator' means the administrator of the Office of
Energy created under ORS 469.030.
(2)(a) 'Alternative fuel project' means a fleet of vehicles
that are modified or acquired directly from a factory and that:
(A) Use an alternative fuel including electricity, ethanol,
gasohol with at least 10 percent denatured alcohol content,
hydrogen, hythane, methane, methanol, natural gas, propane or any
other fuel approved by the administrator; and
(B) Produce lower or equivalent exhaust emissions or are more
energy efficient than vehicles fueled by gasoline.
(b) 'Alternative fuel project' may include a facility,
including a fueling station, necessary to operate an alternative
fuel vehicle fleet.
(3) 'Applicant' means an applicant for a small scale local
energy project loan.
(4) 'Committee' means the Small Scale Local Energy Project
Advisory Committee created under ORS 470.070.
(5) 'Cooperative' means a cooperative corporation organized
under ORS chapter 62.
(6) 'Eligible federal agency' means a federal agency or public
corporation created by the federal government that proposes to
use a loan for a small scale energy project. 'Eligible federal
agency' does not include a federal agency or public corporation
created by the federal government that proposes to use a loan for
a small scale energy project to generate electricity for sale.
(7) 'Eligible state agency' means a state officer, board,
commission, department, institution, branch or agency of the
state whose costs are paid wholly or in part from funds held in
the State Treasury.
(8) 'Loan' includes the purchase or other acquisition of
evidence of indebtedness and money used for the purchase or other
acquisition of evidence of indebtedness.
(9) 'Loan contract' means the evidence of indebtedness and all
instruments used in the purchase or acquisition of the evidence
of indebtedness. For eligible federal or state agencies or
municipal corporations that are tax exempt entities, a loan
contract may include a lease purchase agreement with respect to
personal property.
(10) 'Loan fund' means the Small Scale Local Energy Project
Loan Fund created by Article XI-J of the Oregon Constitution.
(11) 'Municipal corporation' has the meaning given in ORS
297.405 and also includes any Indian tribe or authorized Indian
tribal organization or any combination of two or more of these
tribes or organizations acting jointly in connection with a small
scale local energy project.
(12) 'Office of Energy' means the Office of Energy created
under ORS 469.030.
(13) 'Oregon business' means a sole proprietorship,
partnership, company, cooperative, corporation or other form of
business entity that is organized or authorized to do business
under Oregon law for profit.
(14) 'Recycling project' means a facility or equipment that
converts solid waste, as defined in ORS 459.005, into a new and
usable product.
(15) 'Small business' means:
(a) An Oregon business that is:
(A) A retail or service business employing 50 or fewer persons
at the time the loan is made; or
(B) An industrial or manufacturing business employing 200 or
fewer persons at the time the loan is made; or
(b) An Oregon subsidiary of a sole proprietorship, partnership,
company, cooperative, corporation or other form of business
entity for which the total number of employees for both the
subsidiary and the parent sole proprietorship, partnership,
company, cooperative, corporation or other form of business
entity at the time the loan is made is:
(A) Fifty or fewer persons if the subsidiary is a retail or
service business; and
(B) Two hundred or fewer if the subsidiary is an industrial or
manufacturing business.
(16) 'Sinking fund' means the Small Scale Local Energy Project
Administration and Bond Sinking Fund created in ORS 470.300.
(17)(a) 'Small scale local energy project' means:
(A) Any system, mechanism or series of mechanisms located in
Oregon that uses renewable resources including, but not limited
to, solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, waste heat or water
resources to produce energy including heat, electricity and
substitute fuels to meet a local community or regional energy
need in this state;
(B) Any system, mechanism or series of mechanisms { + ,
including smart energy technology, + } located in Oregon that
conserves energy, including energy used in transportation;
(C) A recycling project;
(D) An alternative fuel project;
(E) An improvement that increases the production or efficiency
of, or extends the operating life of, a system or project
otherwise described in this subsection, including but not limited
to restarting a dormant project. No improvement that is a
hydroelectric project shall exceed five megawatts of electric
generating capacity; or
(F) Any project that falls within the items described in
subparagraphs (A) to (E) of this paragraph that is added to, or
becomes part of, an existing project that falls within the items
described in subparagraphs (A) to (E) of this paragraph, whether
or not the existing project was originally financed under this
chapter, together with any refinancing necessary to remove prior
liens or encumbrances against the existing project.
(b) A small scale local energy project may conserve energy or
produce energy by generation or by processing or collection of a
renewable resource.
SECTION 4. ORS 757.600 is amended to read:
757.600. As used in ORS 757.600 to 757.687, unless the context
requires otherwise:
(1) 'Aggregate' means combining retail electricity consumers
into a buying group for the purchase of electricity and related
services.
(2) 'Ancillary services' means services necessary or incidental
to the transmission and delivery of electricity from generating
facilities to retail electricity consumers, including but not
limited to scheduling, load shaping, reactive power, voltage
control and energy balancing services.
(3) 'Commission' means the Public Utility Commission.
(4) 'Consumer-owned utility' means a municipal electric
utility, a people's utility district or an electric cooperative.
(5) 'Default supplier' means an electricity service supplier or
electric company that has a legal obligation to provide
electricity services to a consumer, as determined by the
commission.
(6) 'Direct access' means the ability of a retail electricity
consumer to purchase electricity and certain ancillary services,
as determined by the commission for an electric company or the
governing body of a consumer-owned utility, directly from an
entity other than the distribution utility.
(7) 'Direct service industrial consumer' means an end user of
electricity that obtains electricity directly from the
transmission grid and not through a distribution utility.
(8) 'Distribution' means the delivery of electricity to retail
electricity consumers through a distribution system consisting of
local area power poles, transformers, conductors, meters,
substations and other equipment.
(9) 'Distribution utility' means an electric utility that owns
and operates a distribution system connecting the transmission
grid to the retail electricity consumer.
(10) 'Economic utility investment' means all electric company
investments made prior to the date the electric company offers
direct access under ORS 757.600 to 757.667, including plants and
equipment and contractual or other legal obligations, properly
dedicated to generation or conservation, that were prudent at the
time the obligations were assumed but the full benefits of which
are no longer available to consumers as a direct result of ORS
757.600 to 757.667, absent transition credits. ' Economic
utility investment' does not include costs or expenses disallowed
by the commission in a prudence review or other proceeding, to
the extent of such disallowance, and does not include fines or
penalties authorized and imposed under state or federal law.
(11) 'Electric company' means an entity engaged in the business
of distributing electricity to retail electricity consumers in
this state, but does not include a consumer-owned utility.
(12) 'Electric cooperative' means an electric cooperative
corporation organized under ORS chapter 62 or under the laws of
another state if the service territory of the electric
cooperative includes a portion of this state.
(13) 'Electric utility' means an electric company or
consumer-owned utility that is engaged in the business of
distributing electricity to retail electricity consumers in this
state.
(14) 'Electricity' means electric energy, measured in
kilowatt-hours, or electric capacity, measured in kilowatts, or
both.
(15) 'Electricity services' means electricity distribution,
transmission, generation or generation-related services.
(16) 'Electricity service supplier' means a person or entity
that offers to sell electricity services available pursuant to
direct access to more than one retail electricity consumer. '
Electricity service supplier' does not include an electric
utility selling electricity to retail electricity consumers in
its own service territory.
{ + (17) 'Energy conservation measures' includes the
installation of smart energy devices and related equipment that
reduce electricity consumption or that modify the timing of
electricity consumption. + }
{ - (17) - } { + (18) + } 'Governing body' means the board
of directors or the commissioners of an electric cooperative or
people's utility district, or the council or board of a city with
respect to a municipal electric utility.
{ - (18) - } { + (19) + } 'Load' means the amount of
electricity delivered to or required by a retail electricity
consumer at a specific point of delivery.
{ - (19) - } { + (20) + } 'Low-income weatherization' means
repairs, weatherization and installation of energy efficient
appliances and fixtures for low-income residences for the purpose
of enhancing energy efficiency.
{ - (20) - } { + (21) + } 'Municipal electric utility'
means an electric distribution utility owned and operated by or
on behalf of a city.
{ - (21) - } { + (22) + } 'New renewable energy resource'
means a renewable energy resource project, or a new addition to
an existing renewable energy resource project, or the electricity
produced by the project, that is not in operation on July 23,
1999. 'New renewable energy resource' does not include any
portion of a renewable energy resource project under contract to
the Bonneville Power Administration on or before July 23, 1999.
{ - (22) - } { + (23) + } 'Office of Energy' means the
Office of Energy created under ORS 469.030.
{ - (23) - } { + (24) + } 'One average megawatt' means
8,760,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year.
{ - (24) - } { + (25) + } 'People's utility district' has
the meaning given that term in ORS 261.010.
{ - (25) - } { + (26) + } 'Portfolio access' means the
ability of a retail electricity consumer to choose from a set of
product and pricing options for electricity determined by the
governing board of a consumer-owned utility and may include
product and pricing options offered by the utility or by an
electricity service supplier.
{ - (26) - } { + (27) + } 'Power generation company' means
a company engaged in the production and sale of electricity to
wholesale customers, including but not limited to independent
power producers, affiliated generation companies, municipal and
state authorities, provided the company is not regulated by the
commission.
{ - (27) - } { + (28) + } 'Qualifying expenditures' means
those expenditures for energy conservation measures that have a
simple payback period of not less than one year and not more than
10 years, and expenditures for the above-market costs of new
renewable energy resources, provided that the Office of Energy by
rule may establish a limit on the maximum above-market cost for
renewable energy that is allowed as a credit.
{ - (28) - } { + (29) + } 'Renewable energy resources'
means:
(a) Electricity generation facilities fueled by wind, waste,
solar or geothermal power or by low-emission nontoxic biomass
based on solid organic fuels from wood, forest and field
residues.
(b) Dedicated energy crops available on a renewable basis.
(c) Landfill gas and digester gas.
(d) Hydroelectric facilities located outside protected areas as
defined by federal law in effect on July 23, 1999.
{ - (29) - } { + (30) + } 'Residential electricity
consumer' means an electricity consumer who resides at a dwelling
primarily used for residential purposes. 'Residential electricity
consumer' does not include retail electricity consumers in a
dwelling typically used for residency periods of less than 30
days, including hotels, motels, camps, lodges and clubs. As used
in this subsection, ' dwelling' includes but is not limited to
single family dwellings, separately metered apartments, adult
foster homes, manufactured dwellings, recreational vehicles and
floating homes.
{ - (30) - } { + (31) + } 'Retail electricity consumer'
means the end user of electricity for specific purposes such as
heating, lighting or operating equipment, and includes all end
users of electricity served through the distribution system of an
electric utility on or after July 23, 1999, whether or not each
end user purchases the electricity from the electric utility.
{ - (31) - } { + (32) + } 'Site' means a single contiguous
area of land containing buildings or other structures that are
separated by not more than 1,000 feet, or buildings and related
structures that are interconnected by facilities owned by a
single retail electricity consumer and that are served through a
single electric meter.
{ - (32) - } { + (33) + } 'Transition charge' means a
charge or fee that recovers all or a portion of an uneconomic
utility investment.
{ - (33) - } { + (34) + } 'Transition credit' means a
credit that returns to consumers all or a portion of the benefits
from an economic utility investment.
{ - (34) - } { + (35) + } 'Transmission facility' means the
plant and equipment used to transmit electricity in interstate
commerce.
{ - (35) - } { + (36) + } 'Undue market power' means the
unfair or improper exercise of influence to increase or decrease
the availability or price of a service or product in a manner
inconsistent with competitive markets.
{ - (36) - } { + (37) + } 'Uneconomic utility investment'
means all investments made by an electric company prior to the
date the electric company offers direct access under ORS 757.600
to 757.667, including plants and equipment and contractual or
other legal obligations, properly dedicated to generation,
conservation and workforce commitments, that were prudent at the
time the obligations were assumed but the full costs of which are
no longer recoverable as a direct result of ORS 757.600 to
757.667, absent transition charges. 'Uneconomic utility
investment' does not include costs or expenses disallowed by the
commission in a prudence review or other proceeding, to the
extent of such disallowance, and does not include fines or
penalties as authorized by state or federal law.
SECTION 5. ORS 757.676 is amended to read:
757.676. The governing body of a consumer-owned utility is
authorized to determine whether and under what terms and
conditions it will offer its retail electricity consumers direct
access, portfolio access or other forms of access to electric
service suppliers. In making such determination, the governing
body of a consumer-owned utility shall consider such factors as
it deems appropriate. A consumer-owned utility shall have sole
authority to determine:
(1) The quality and nature of electric service, including but
not limited to different product and pricing options, which shall
be made available to its retail electricity consumers.
(2) The extent to which products and services will be unbundled
and the rates, tariffs, terms and conditions on which they may be
offered.
(3) Whether one or more pilot programs for direct access,
portfolio access or other forms of access to alternative
suppliers will be offered.
(4) Notwithstanding ORS 757.600 (10) and { - (36) - } { +
(37) + }, what constitutes an economic or uneconomic utility
investment, the value of such investments and, in the case of
uneconomic utility investments, the manner and means of
mitigating such investments.
(5) Whether and on what basis a transition charge will be
adopted, assessed and collected from a retail electricity
consumer located within the utility's service territory,
including but not limited to a nonbypassable distribution charge,
the amount and period of recovery for the charges, the allocation
of the charges among retail electricity consumers located within
the utility's service territory and the method of collecting such
charges including but not limited to whether to impose a
nonbypassable distribution charge.
(6) The manner of collecting stranded distribution charges,
systems benefit charges, franchise fees, taxes and payments made
in lieu of taxes from retail electricity consumers located within
the utility's service territory for electric power transactions
using transmission facilities, whether or not such transactions
use distribution facilities. The governing body may assign
charges on the basis of usage, demand or any combination or
method it finds appropriate. Charges need not be assigned to
specific facilities.
(7) The collection from retail electricity consumers located
within the utility's service territory through rates, fees or
charges, including the imposition of a nonbypassable distribution
charge, in amounts sufficient to recover 100 percent of stranded
costs imposed by, or incurred pursuant to the purchase of
cost-based electric power from, the Bonneville Power
Administration. Such stranded cost charges may include the
difference in cost associated with purchasing electric power from
the Bonneville Power Administration and the cost of purchasing a
like and similar amount of electric power at market prices.
(8) The establishment of technical capability requirements,
financial responsibility requirements and other protections for
retail electricity consumers located within the utility's service
territory and the consumer-owned utility in dealings with
electric service suppliers.
(9) Access to or use of the utility's transmission facilities
or distribution system by retail electricity consumers or
electric service suppliers.
(10) The utility's qualification standards for energy service
suppliers in addition to any certification standards established
by the Public Utility Commission, provided that the qualification
standards are uniformly applied to electricity service providers
in a nondiscriminatory manner.
SECTION 6. { + The Oregon Department of Administrative
Services, in consultation with the Office of Energy, shall report
on energy technologies used by state agencies to reduce energy
consumption to the Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly, and
thereafter to the Legislative Assembly at the end of every
10-year period that coincides with the federal decennial
census. + }
SECTION 7. { + The Office of Energy shall, to the extent
allowed by the limitation on the payment of expenses from federal
funds and from fees, moneys or other revenues, spend up to $1
million from funds appropriated by the Legislative Assembly for
the development and implementation of smart energy technologies
that use or produce energy more efficiently. + }
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