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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 3487

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Senators Goltz, Bailey, Williams and Benitz

Read first time 1/31/85 and referred to Committee on Energy and Utilities.

AN ACT Relating to energy consumption by state agencies; adding new sections to chapter 43.19 RCW; making an appropriation; and providing an expiration date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     The state energy office shall establish a base year energy consumption level for each state-owned facility to reflect consumption prior to the 1985-87 biennium.  Each facility or the agency responsible for the facility shall report accurate monthly energy consumption and cost figures for all fuels to the state energy office quarterly.  Any changes in total space served or facility operations shall be reported to the state energy office within thirty days after the change.  The state energy office may adjust the base year energy consumption level for the facility to reflect such changes.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     The state energy office, after consultation with the department of general administration, shall determine the reduction in energy consumption for each state-owned facility for the 1985-87 biennium and each biennium thereafter relative to the base year energy consumption level, and shall calculate the estimated dollar value of the energy consumption reduction for an agency's facilities for the current biennium.  The dollar savings for each agency for the biennium shall be allocated by the state energy office with the assistance of the office of financial management, between the agency and the  fund or account of origin according to the following schedule:

!tp1,1,1 !tj1!tlShare of Fund or

!sc ,4Biennium!tlAgen!ttcy Share!tlAccount !ttof Origin

1985-87!tl80%!tl20%

1987-89!tl70%!tl30%

1989-91!tl60%!tl40%

1991-93!tl40%!tl60%

1993-95!tl20%!tl80%

          The state energy office shall administer and allocate the appropriation for this program.  Payments for energy consumption reductions during a biennium shall be payable in the following biennium.  Eighty percent of the agency's share for energy consumption reductions achieved prior to July 1, 1991, shall be used by the agency to maintain energy consumption reductions or to further reduce energy consumption in the  agency's facilities.  The remaining twenty percent received by the agency may be expended as determined by the director of the agency.

          After June 30, 1991, and until June 30, 1995, one hundred percent of each agency's share for energy consumption reductions shall be used for further reducing energy consumption in the agency's facilities, as provided in this section.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     There is hereby created an energy savings account in the general fund of the state treasury.  All expenditures from this account are subject to chapter 43.88 RCW and this chapter.  Within six months of the beginning of each biennium, the state treasurer shall transfer to the energy savings account from the general fund or other fund or account of origin, the equivalent of the prior biennium's energy savings as calculated by the state energy office in accordance with this chapter.  The transfer shall be based on avoided costs due to energy consumption reductions for each fund or account.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.     After consultation with the office of financial management and the department of general administration, the state energy office shall adopt such rules as are necessary to properly administer sections 1 and 2 of this act.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 5.     There is appropriated to the state energy office from the general fund, for the biennium ending June 30, 1987, the sum of thirty-two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the purposes of this act.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 6.     Sections 1 through 4 of this act are each added to chapter 43.19 RCW and shall be codified between RCW 43.19.670 and 43.19.685.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 7.     Sections 1 through 4 of this act shall each expire on June 30, 1997.