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1 AN ACT to create the Utility Environmental Initiative
2 Act.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
6 Utility Environmental Initiative Act.
7 Section 5. Findings. The General Assembly finds that the
8 residents of the northern portion of Illinois will continue
9 to enjoy electric utility service at reduced and competitive
10 rates under a deregulated power marketplace. The General
11 Assembly further finds that, along with these deregulated and
12 competitive rates, the environment enjoyed by these power
13 customer should be further enhanced by environmental
14 initiatives of utilities providing the majority of the
15 electrical power in the region.
16 Section 10. Definitions. In this Act:
17 "Commission" means the Illinois Commerce Commission.
18 "Utility" means an electric utility that in the previous
19 calendar year has supplied electric power to over 1,000,000
20 residents.
21 Section 15. Electric utility environmental assistance.
22 (a) Beginning in year 2000, a utility shall annually
23 spend at least $3,000,000 toward projects that will benefit
24 the environment and promote the efficient use of energy.
25 (b) The utility shall file with the Commission and make
26 available to the public by December 1 of 2000 and each year
27 thereafter, a written spending plan detailing what
28 environmental initiatives were funded in that year and the
29 amount expended on those initiatives. These initiatives may
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1 include residential customer energy efficiency programs.
2 Section 20. Expenditures supplemental. The expenditures
3 required under this Act are in addition to any amounts
4 required to be spent by the utility on renewable energy
5 resources programs under Section 6-6 of the Renewable Energy,
6 Energy Efficiency, and Coal Resources Development Law of
7 1997.
8 Section 90. Repealer. This Act is repealed on January
9 1, 2010.
10 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
11 becoming law.