Bill Text: CT HB05369 | 2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut House Bill 5369 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: An Act Implementing A Natural Gas Vehicle Pilot Program For Municipal Fleets.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-01 - Public Hearing 03/05 [HB05369 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-HB05369-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 5369*
*February Session, 2012*		LCO No. 1645
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Referred to Committee on Transportation
Introduced by:
(TRA)

AN ACT IMPLEMENTING A NATURAL GAS VEHICLE PILOT PROGRAM FOR MUNICIPAL FLEETS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) On or before July 1, 2012, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection shall establish a natural gas transportation pilot program to facilitate the deployment of natural gas vehicles in municipalities. Such pilot program shall include not more than three partnerships between up to three municipalities and a natural gas company to encourage the conversion of municipal vehicle fleets to natural gas and to develop natural gas refueling stations. As part of the partnership, (1) the municipality shall commit to acquire a minimum of ten medium or heavy-duty trucks and transit or school buses that operate on compressed natural gas; and (2) the gas company shall install, own and operate a refueling facility on its own property or on municipal property. Such refueling facility shall also be made available to persons other than the municipality.

(b) The department shall establish procedures for the pilot program developed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. Such procedures shall include, but not be limited to, (1) establishment and criteria for grants to municipalities to reimburse the incremental cost of natural gas equipment; (2) development of a list of qualified suppliers to provide such vehicles; (3) development of selection criteria for participation in such pilot program; and (4) establishment of rates and charges for the delivery and supply of such compressed natural gas. Grants to municipalities shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars per pilot community and shall be (A) provided from within existing appropriations of the Department of Transportation, or (B) recovered from the energy efficiency adjustment rate of the participating gas company.

(c) Notwithstanding title 16 of the general statutes, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall allow a gas company to recover the reasonable costs of such pilot program on a timely basis, including a return on investment, which shall include adoption of an adjustment rate that uses a methodology consistent with rates approved pursuant to section 16-19b of the general statutes.

(d) On or before January 1, 2014, and annually thereafter, the department shall report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to transportation, energy and the environment regarding the progress of such program.


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To establish a municipal natural gas vehicle pilot program.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]