Resolve, To Encourage Use of Alternative Energy Sources
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 1184
Committee Amendment CA_A_S132 (Senate)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ·A" to S.P. 388, L.D. 1184, "Resolve, 
To Encourage Use of Alternative Energy Sources" 
Amend the resolve by striking out everything after the title 
and before the summary and inserting in its place the following: 
. Sec. 1. Energy Resources Council to study. Resolved: That the 
Energy 
Resources 
Council, 
established 
in 
the 
Maine 
Revised 
Statutes, 
Title 
5, 
section 
3327, 
in 
coordination 
with 
the 
Department of Environmental Protection, shall study: 
1. 
The costs and benefits of state government actions and 
options to stimulate an increase in the percentage of various 
alternative 
transportation 
fuels 
and 
alternatively 
fueled 
vehicles used in the State; 
2. The costs and benefits of state government actions and 
options to stimulate an increase in the production of biofuels in 
the State; 
3. The related goals, practices, results and markets that 
exist in other states and provinces, especially those that share 
fuel or vehicle markets with Maine; 
4. 
The 
transportation 
infrastructure; 
potential 
fuel 
and 
for 
synergies 
between 
alternative heating fuel 
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alternative 
sectors and 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ,A, to S.P. 388, L.D. 1184 
5. 
The 
costs 
and 
benefits 
and 
actual 
or 
predicted 
transportation energy efficiency results of other initiatives, 
including dense multiuse development, long-term traffic and modal 
demand 
management plans of the Department of Transportation, 
anti-idling 
campaigns 
and 
fuel 
economy 
standards 
for 
state 
fleets; and 
6. 
Related federal initiatives, requirements and funding, 
and the implications for strategic planning and investment in the 
State; and be it further 
Sec. 2. Energy Resources Council report. Resolved: 
That the 
Energy Resources Council shall report its interim findings and 
recommendations resulting from the study required in this resolve 
by January 31, 2004 and its final recommendations by January 31, 
2005. 
The reports must present recommended production or usage 
goals 
for 
alternative 
transportation 
fuels 
and 
biofuels, 
recommended strategies to arrive at those goals and the predicted 
costs and benefits of such strategies; and be it further 
Sec. 3. Costs. Resolved: 
That the costs of the study required 
in this resolve must be absorbed within the existing resources of 
the Energy Resources Council and member agencies.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment, which is the majority report of the Joint 
Standing 
Committee 
on 
Utilities 
and 
Energy, 
replaces 
the 
resolve. 
This amendment directs the Energy Resources Council, in 
consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection, to 
undertake 
a 
study of alternative transportation 
and heating 
fuels, alternatively fueled vehicles and biofuels and to report 
to 
the 
joint standing 
committee 
of 
the 
Legislature 
having 
jurisdiction over utilities and energy matters with interim 
findings and recommendations by January 31, 2004 and with final 
recommendations by January 31, 2005. 
The reports must recommend 
production and usage goals for alternative transportation fuels 
and biofuels and recommend strategies for achieving those goals. 
FISCAL :\OTE REQVlRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 05107/03 ;:J!;pac 
Office of Fiscal and Program Review 
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Resolve, To Encourage Use of Alternative Energy Sources 
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