S3126A-2011 Actions

• Jun 4, 2012: referred to economic development
• Jun 4, 2012: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Jun 4, 2012: PASSED SENATE
• May 30, 2012: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• May 23, 2012: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• May 22, 2012: 1ST REPORT CAL.882
• Apr 17, 2012: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
• Jan 13, 2012: PRINT NUMBER 3126A
• Jan 13, 2012: AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS
• Jun 24, 2011: COMMITTED TO RULES
• May 18, 2011: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• May 17, 2011: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• May 16, 2011: 1ST REPORT CAL.665
• Mar 22, 2011: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
• Feb 9, 2011: REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

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BILL NUMBER:S3126A

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

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Subject to appropriations.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

Immediately upon enactment of the bill into law.

S3126A-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 3126--A
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 February 9, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  MAZIARZ,  O'MARA, RITCHIE, VALESKY, YOUNG -- read
 twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
 Committee  on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- recommitted
 to the Committee  on  Corporations,  Authorities  and  Commissions  in
 accordance  with  Senate  Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
 amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit
 tee
 

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:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08594-02-2
 
       S. 3126--A                          2
 

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

 (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.

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