LAWS OF THE 2001 REGULAR SESSION
OF THE SEVENTY-NINTH
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA

CHAPTER 175

APPROPRIATIONS — ENERGY CONSERVATION PROGRAMS FUNDING

H.F. 706   Bill History

AN ACT relating to energy conservation including making appropriations of petroleum overcharge funds.

Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:

Section 1. There is appropriated from those funds designated within the energy conservation trust created in section 473.11, for disbursement pursuant to section 473.11, to the following named agencies for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2001, and ending June 30, 2002, the following amounts, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:

1. To the division of community action agencies of the department of human rights for qualifying energy conservation programs for low-income persons, including but not limited to energy weatherization projects, which target the highest energy users, and including administrative costs:

a. To be expended first from the office of hearings and appeals second-stage settlement (OHA) fund and the Warner/Imperial fund and the Diamond Shamrock fund and then the Stripper Well fund:

.....................................................................$     182,000

b. To be expended from the Exxon fund:

.....................................................................$      68,000

2. To the department of natural resources for the following purposes:

a. For the state energy program, from the Exxon fund:

.....................................................................$      30,000

b. For administration of petroleum overcharge programs from the Stripper Well fund, not to exceed the following amount:

.....................................................................$     150,000

Notwithstanding section 8.33, the unencumbered or unobligated moneys remaining at the end of any fiscal year from the appropriations made in subsections 1 and 2 shall not revert but shall be available for expenditure during subsequent fiscal years until expended for the purposes for which originally appropriated.

Approved May 2, 2001



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