Sec. 16a-46a. Preparation and amendment of residential energy conservation service plan and amendments. Approval. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 16a-46a. Preparation and amendment of residential energy conservation service plan and amendments. Approval. (a) The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall prepare and may from time to time amend a residential energy conservation service plan which implements the program established under section 16a-46, and which complies with applicable federal law. The residential energy conservation service plan shall include, but not be limited to, a designation of the classes of residential buildings that may receive low-cost energy audits during the period covered by the plan.

      (b) Prior to implementing any amendments to the residential energy conservation service plan, the secretary shall submit the plan or amendments to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to energy planning and activities. The committee may approve or disapprove such plan or amendments at a meeting held not later than sixty days after receipt of the plan or amendments. If the committee takes no action with regard to the plan or amendments during such sixty-day period, they shall be deemed approved. Upon such approval, the secretary shall submit the plans or amendments to the United States Department of Energy.

      (P.A. 80-178, S. 2, 3; P.A. 82-231, S. 4, 8; P.A. 83-192, S. 4; P.A. 95-32, S. 3, 7.)

      History: P.A. 82-231 required plan to implement program set out under Sec. 16a-46 and to designate measures and services to be provided and classes of buildings to receive the measures and services and created new Subsec. (b) providing approval process for plan amendments; P.A. 83-192 applied provisions of section to commercial building energy conservation service program, in addition to residential energy conservation service program and required that plans or amendments to them be submitted to U.S. Department of Energy; P.A. 95-32 deleted provisions re commercial building energy conservation service plan and limited the residential energy conservation service plan to low-cost energy audits, effective July 1, 1995.