Creates the dairy farm improved energy efficiency program; provides grants and low interest loans to dairy farms who make energy efficient improvements.

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S1081-2013 Actions

• May 20, 2013: AMENDED ON THIRD READING 1081A
• Apr 22, 2013: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• Apr 17, 2013: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• Apr 16, 2013: 1ST REPORT CAL.303
• Feb 4, 2013: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
• Jan 9, 2013: REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

S1081-2013 Meetings

Corporations, Authorities and Commissions: Feb 4, 2013, Finance: Apr 16, 2013

S1081-2013 Calendars

Active List: May 20, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Apr 17, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Apr 22, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Apr 23, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Apr 24, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Apr 29, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Apr 30, 2013 , Floor Calendar: May 1, 2013 , Floor Calendar: May 6, 2013 , Floor Calendar: May 7, 2013 , Floor Calendar: May 8, 2013 , Floor Calendar: May 20, 2013

S1081-2013 Votes

S1081-2013 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S1081

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the New York state urban development corporation act, in
relation to creating the dairy farm improved energy efficiency program

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

Assist dairy farms with high efficiency lighting, high efficiency
pumping and cooling equipment, and other energy management systems.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

This bill would establish a dairy farm improved energy efficiency loan
fund to provide grants and low interest loans to dairy farms for
energy efficiency projects and advanced energy technologies.

JUSTIFICATION:

Family farms are struggling with depressed wholesale milk prices.
State policymakers need to provide low-cost tools to farmers to help
them become more efficient and reduce the cost of, doing business.
This financing program could provide those advantages. Advancing new
technologies will also help to accelerate the development of the
energy services industry and help to make farms more energy
efficient, thus providing new and expanded job opportunities for New
Yorkers.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2005-2006:  A.8096/S.6816
2007-2008:  A.10238/S.3235A
2009-2010:  S.2880/S.5429
2011-2012:  S.3136A/A.5145A; Referred to Economic Development

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Subject to appropriations.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

Immediately upon enactment of the bill into law.

S1081-2013 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    1081

                         2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                                 (PREFILED)

                               January 9, 2013
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by Sens. MAZIARZ, GALLIVAN, GRISANTI, LARKIN, SEWARD -- read
    twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
    Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

  AN ACT to amend the New York state urban development corporation act, in
    relation to creating the dairy farm improved energy efficiency program

    THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section 1. Legislative findings.   The legislature  hereby  finds  and
  declares  that  due to their remote locations at the end of the electric
  grid infrastructure, farms are more difficult  to  service  by  electric
  utilities.    Strengthening  the  energy systems of individual farms and
  developing micro-grids in remote areas will enhance  the  overall  reli-
  ability  of  the  electric  system.   The legislature further finds that
  assisting dairy farms with high  efficiency  lighting,  high  efficiency
  pumping and cooling equipment, and other energy management systems, will
  result  in  significant  energy  savings and increased milk yields.  The
  legislature hereby declares that providing low  cost  tools  to  farmers
  will  help  them  become  more  efficient and reduce their cost of doing
  business.  Advancing new technologies will also help to  accelerate  the
  development  of  the  energy  services  industry, thus providing new and
  expanded job opportunities for New Yorkers.
    Therefore, the legislature seeks to provide funds to encourage  energy
  efficient dairy farms through grants and low interest loans for approved
  projects to stimulate the New York state dairy industry.
    S  2.  Section  1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968, constituting the
  New York state urban development corporation act, is amended by adding a
  new section 16-v to read as follows:

    S 16-V. DAIRY FARM IMPROVED ENERGY EFFICIENCY  PROGRAM.    1.    DEFI-
  NITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS SECTION:


   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD02257-01-3

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    (A) "AUTHORITY" SHALL MEAN THE NEW YORK STATE ENERGY RESEARCH DEVELOP-
  MENT AUTHORITY.
    (B)  "LOAN  FUND"  SHALL REFER TO THE DAIRY FARM IMPROVED ENERGY EFFI-
  CIENCY LOAN FUND ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION.
    2. (A) THE CORPORATION, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF  THE  AUTHORITY,  SHALL
  ESTABLISH  A  DAIRY FARM IMPROVED ENERGY EFFICIENCY LOAN FUND TO PROVIDE
  GRANTS AND LOW INTEREST LOANS  TO  DAIRY  FARMS  FOR  ENERGY  EFFICIENCY
  PROJECTS AND ADVANCED ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES.
    (B)  IN  ORDER  TO  BE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS LOAN PROGRAM, A
  DAIRY FARM MUST HAVE AN ENERGY AUDIT PROVIDED  THROUGH  THE  AUTHORITY'S
  ENERGY AUDIT PROGRAM THAT HELPS CUSTOMERS MAKE INFORMED ELECTRICAL ENER-
  GY DECISIONS AND IMPLEMENT ENERGY EFFICIENCY STRATEGIES.
    3. (A) THE CORPORATION SHALL, WITHIN AVAILABLE APPROPRIATIONS, PROVIDE
  FINANCIAL,  TECHNICAL OR OTHER ASSISTANCE FROM THE LOAN FUND TO ELIGIBLE
  DAIRY FARMS.
    (B) THE CORPORATION IS AUTHORIZED TO PROVIDE GRANTS AND  LOW  INTEREST
  LOANS  FROM  THE LOAN FUND FOR ELIGIBLE IMPROVEMENTS TO DAIRY FARMS.  TO
  BE ELIGIBLE FOR SUCH GRANTS AND LOANS, A DAIRY FARM  SHALL  IDENTIFY  AN
  ELIGIBLE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT AND PROVIDE NECESSARY DOCUMENTATION.
    (C)  GRANTS  OR  LOANS  PROVIDED  BY  THE CORPORATION MAY BE UP TO ONE
  HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
    4. ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS ELIGIBLE FOR GRANTS OR LOW  INTEREST
  LOANS THROUGH THE LOAN FUND SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

    (A)  PRE-QUALIFIED MEASURES THAT ARE PROVEN COST EFFECTIVE INVESTMENTS
  WHICH REDUCE ENERGY USE;
    (B) CUSTOM MEASURES THAT PAY  FOR  THEMSELVES  IN  TEN  YEARS  THROUGH
  REDUCED ENERGY USE;
    (C)  PROCESS IMPROVEMENT MEASURES THAT REDUCE MANUFACTURING ENERGY USE
  ON A COST-PER-UNIT BASIS; AND
    (D) RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES THAT USE THE SUN, WIND, ANAEROBIC DIGESTION
  OF ANIMAL WASTES OR OTHER APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES TO GENERATE  HEAT  OR
  POWER.
    5.  APPLICATIONS  FOR  ASSISTANCE  PURSUANT  TO  THIS SECTION SHALL BE
  REVIEWED AND EVALUATED  BY  THE  CORPORATION  IN  COOPERATION  WITH  THE
  AUTHORITY PURSUANT TO ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS AND CRITERIA SET FORTH IN
  THE RULES AND REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE CORPORATION.
    6.  THE  CORPORATION  AND THE AUTHORITY SHALL SUBMIT AN ANNUAL WRITTEN
  REPORT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE
  SENATE IDENTIFYING THE NUMBER OF DAIRY FARMS ASSISTED THROUGH  THE  LOAN
  FUND  PROGRAM, AND THE TYPES OF IMPROVEMENTS IMPLEMENTED AND ENERGY COST
  SAVINGS AND ANY OTHER BENEFITS REALIZED BY THE DAIRY FARMS  ASSISTED  BY
  THIS PROGRAM.
    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.