An Act Relating to Energy Policy Further amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting in its place the following: Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §3327, sub-§3. lIC. as enacted by PL 2003, c. 487, §1, is repealed. Sec. 2. 30-A MRS A c. 201, sub-c.ll-A. as amended, is repealed. Sec. 3. 35-A MRS A §3153-A. sub-§I. lIE, as amended by PL 2001, c. 624, §2, is further amended to read: E. Transmission and distribution utility financing or subsidization of capital improvements undertaken by ratepayers to conserve electricity used by the ratepayers in the future. This paragraph applies to future programs for utility financing of energy conservation or load management as long as the goal of such programs is to economically defer or eliminate the need for transmission and dis tr ibution plant upgrades T--..;r-n---ae1e14:t;4:eB---t-Q---f!re~ramE; HBe1ert;a*eB--f!Hr6HaBt;--t;e--t;R4:6--f!ara~raf!RT--f!re~ram6--may--bE! HBe1ert;a*eB-~H:U;6tl.a!l..t--t.€l-~-i~-3-2-J.-l---A--t:-Q---ae-B.:i,.e...e--~eal&-et;ReI: t;RaB-t;Rat;-4:e1eBt;iE4:ee1-~B-t;Ri6-f!ara~raf!R; Page 1-LR1317 (3) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 1261
Committee Amendment CA_B_S425 (Senate)
Amends: 5 MRSA §3327, 35-A MRSA §3211-A, 35-A MRSA §3211-B

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 8" to S.P. 407, L.D. 1261, Bill, "An 
Act To 
Support Clean and Efficient Energy for the Future of 
Maine's Economy and Environment" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting 
the following: 
'An Act Relating to Energy Policy' 
Further amend the bill by striking out everything after the 
enacting clause and before the summary and inserting in its place 
the following: 
'Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §3327, sub-§3. lIC. as enacted by PL 2003, c. 
487, §1, is repealed. 
Sec. 2. 30-A MRS A c. 201, sub-c.ll-A. as amended, is repealed. 
Sec. 3. 35-A MRS A §3153-A. sub-§I. lIE, as amended by PL 2001, 
c. 624, §2, is further amended to read: 
E. 
Transmission 
and 
distribution utility 
financing 
or 
subsidization 
of 
capital 
improvements 
undertaken 
by 
ratepayers to conserve electricity used by the ratepayers in 
the future. 
This paragraph applies to future programs for 
utility financing of energy conservation or load management 
as long as the goal of such programs is to economically 
defer 
or 
eliminate 
the 
need 
for 
transmission 
and 
dis tr ibution 
plant 
upgrades T--..;r-n---ae1e14:t;4:eB---t-Q---f!re~ramE; 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT .. 8· to S.P. 407, L.D. 1261 
Sec. 4. 35-A MRSA §3211-A. as amended by PL 2003, c. 217, 
§1; c. 219, §1; c. 275, §§1 and 2; and c. 487, §§2 and 3, is 
repealed. 
Sec. 5. 35-A MRSA §3211-B. as enacted by PL 2003, c. 20, Pt. 
RR, §10 and affected by §18, is amended to read: 
§32ll-B. 
Energy conservation programs 
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seeti9B-~6ll-Ar-s~eseeti9a-6r-tBe The commission shall administer 
the following energy conservation programs. 
1. 
Federally 
mandated 
programs. 
The 
director 
shall 
administer the following federally mandated programs, 
formerly 
administered 
by 
the 
Department 
of 
Economic 
and 
Community 
Development, Office of Business Development: 
A. 
State Energy Conservation Program; 
B. 
Energy Extension Service; and 
C. 
Institutional Conservation Program. 
2. 
Energy conservation standards. 
adopt 
energy 
conservation 
standards 
administration 
of 
the 
standards 
and 
energy-efficient buildings, as defined in 
The 
commission shall 
and 
adopt 
rules 
for 
the 
certification 
of 
Title 10, chapter 214. 
3. 
Approval; denial of certificates. 
The commission shall 
provide for the approval or denial of certificates of compliance 
with energy standards, as required in Title 10, chapter 214. 
4. 
Preparation of manual. 
The commission shall prepare the 
Manual of Accepted Practices, as described in Title 10, section 
1415-F. 
5. 
Review; inspection. 
The commission may review plans and 
specifications and may inspect buildings to determine compliance 
wi th the energy conservation standards established in Ti tle 10, 
chapter 214. 
6. 
Rule-making authority. 
If the Residential Conservation 
Service, 
as 
established 
by 
the 
federal 
National 
Energy 
Conservation Policy Act, Public Law 95-619, (1978), 92 Stat. 3206 
as amended by the federal Energy Security Act, Public Law 96-294, 
(1980) , 
Stat. 611, is repealed or amended by deleting the 
requirements for providing energy conservation information and 
energy audits and arranging financing for energy conservation 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT .~. to S.P. 407, L.D. 1261 
improvements for residential customers, the commission may adopt 
routine 
technical 
rules 
pursuant 
to 
Title 
5, 
chapter 
375, 
subchapter 2-A to continue these services. In establishing these 
rules, 
the 
commission 
shall 
simplify 
federal 
rules 
without. 
preventing 
fulfillment 
of 
the 
program 
objectives 
and 
the 
commission 
may 
not 
impose 
rules 
containing 
additional 
requirements for utilities. 
Until the commission adopts new rules under this subsection, the 
previously existing federal 
regulations 
and 
any 
state 
rules 
implementing them are deemed state rules with full force 
and 
effective until changed. 
Sec. 6. 35·A MRSA §3214, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 316, §3, 
is repealed. 
Sec. 7 P&SL 2001, c. 45, §1, as amended by PL 200L c. 667, Pt. 
E, §5 and affected by §6, is repealed. 
Sec. 8. P&SL 2001, c. 45, §2 is repealed. 
Sec. 9. Return of funds. 
The Public Utilities Commission shall 
develop 
and 
implement 
a 
plan to return to ratepayers in an 
equitable manner all funds collected from ratepayers pursuant to 
the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, sections 32ll-A and 3214 
that have not been spent or contractually obligated prior to the 
effective date of this Act. 
Sec. 
10. 
Appropriations 
and 
allocations. 
The 
following 
appropriations and allocations are made. 
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION 
Conservation Program Fund 
Initiative: 
Deallocates funds required due to the repeal of the 
conservation program fund. 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
All Other 
Other Special Revenue Funds Total 
Conservation Administrative Fund 
2003-04 
$0 
$0 
2004-05 
($7,200,000) 
($7,200,000) 
Initiative: 
Deallocates funds required due to the repeal of the 
conservation administrative fund. 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Positions - Legislative Count 
2003-04 
(0.000) 
2004-05 
(-3.000) 
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Personal Services 
All Other 
Other Special Revenue Funds Total 
$0 
o 
$0 
($352,210) 
(947,790) 
($1,300,000) 
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION 
DEPARTMENT 'l'OTALS 
2003-04 
2004-05 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
$0 
($8,500,000) 
DEPARTMENT 'l'OTAL -
ALL FUNDS 
$0 
($8,500,000)' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment, which is the minority report of the Joint 
Standing Committee on Utilities and Energy, replaces the bill and 
changes the title to reflect the content of the amendment. 
The 
amendment: 
1. 
Utili ties 
assistance 
ratepayers 
Repeals 
provisions 
of 
Commission's 
energy 
programs 
and directs 
unspent money collected 
law 
relating 
to 
the 
Public 
efficiency 
and 
low-income 
the 
commission 
to 
return to 
pursuant to these programs; and 
2. 
Repeals provisions of a private and special law enacted 
in 2001 that granted, 
with conditions and limitations, 
Great 
Northern Paper, Inc. and its successors in interest the authority 
to sell rights granted by the Legislature to Great Northern 
Paper, 
Inc. 
and 
its 
predecessors 
in 
interest 
relating 
to 
hydropower 
facilities 
and 
the 
right to sell to 
3rd parties 
electricity generated by those hydropower facilities. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Appropriations/Allocations 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Approved: 02126/04 frae.. 
Office of Fiscal and Program Review 
LD 1261 
An Act To Support Clean and Efficient Energy for the Future of Maine's 
Economy and Environment 
LR 1317(03) 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment '5 
Committee: Utilities and Energy 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Minority Report 
Fiscal Note 
2003-04 
2004-05 
Projections 
2005-06 
Projections 
2006-07 
$0 
($8,500,000) 
($8,691,250) 
($8,908,531) 
Repealing the Public Utilities Commission'.,S energy efficiency and low-income assistance programs will require Other 
Special Revenue deallocations of $8,500,000 in fiscal year 2004-05, $8,691,250 in fiscal year 2005-06 and $8,908,531 
in fiscal year 2006-07. These deallocations are due to the elimination of the Conservation Program Fund and 
Conservation Administrative Fund as requiroo by this bill: Costs associated with developing and implementing a plan 
to return unspent monies collected pursuant t6'these pr~grams to ratepayers can be absorbed by the Public Utilities 
Commission utilizing existing budgeted resources. The fiscal impact of repealing P&S 2001, Chapter 45, sections 1 
and 2 can not be determined at this time. 
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