Section 16a-37c-3 - Procedures for participation(a) Any state agency desiring to participate in this program shall: (1) Provide, on forms prepared by the Of of Policy and Management, information including but not limited to: (A) A description of each proposed energy conservation project, including the facilities involved in the project, those energy conservation measures anticipated to be implemented, technical documentation of estimated total implementation costs by measure, estimated energy usage savings (in units) by measure, estimated useful life of each measure based on manufacturer's documentation, and Department of Public Works assigned project number(s), if applicable.(B) Source(s) of funding, which shall account for all project costs.(C) Expected date of project completion within the fiscal year.(2) Submit the above forms to the Office of Policy and Management by May 1 for all projects expected to be completed by June 30 of that same fiscal year. No more than one energy conservation project under this program will be allowed in each fiscal year for each budgeted agency, unless a waiver of this requirement has been requested of and granted by the Office of Policy and Management.(3) Submit to the Office of Policy and Management, by August 1 for any project completed in the preceding fiscal year, written confirmation, signed by the agency head, of all energy conservation measures completed in the preceding fiscal year, actual total implementation costs, and calculated savings (by unit). Such confirmation must be based upon those estimates for any project identified in 3 (a) (1) (A) above.(4) Submit, beginning two years after the submittal required in subdivision (3) above, and each August 1 thereafter, technical certification that each completed energy conservation measure is performing at eighty five per cent (85%) or greater of its designed efficiency, or has been replaced, or is no longer functioning. Such verification shall be confirmed, in writing, by the agency head and forwarded to the Office of Policy and Management. The level of technical verification required shall be determined by the Office of Policy and Management for each energy conservation measure implemented.(b) The Office of Policy and Management shall:(1) For each budgeted agency participating in the program in any full fiscal year, provide, by June 30 of the following fiscal year, a statement of determined dollar savings achieved through energy conservation measures.(2) Allow not less than fifty per cent of the determined dollar savings achieved through energy conservation measures during the preceding fiscal year of program participation to be credited to that agency for future energy costs or energy conservation related activities. Such savings shall be credited to the agency through the annual budget review and each annual credited amount must be used by the agency in that fiscal year. In the case of energy conservation projects funded through third party financing agreements, such portion credited must first be used as payment toward the debt of such obligation.(3) Allow the savings identified in subdivision (2) above to be credited to the agency annually for a period equal to the useful life of the energy conservation measures implemented as identified in 3 (a) (3) and (4) above.(4) Allow not less than fifty per cent of the credited amount to be used for future energy conservation related activities.Conn. Agencies Regs. § 16a-37c-3
Effective December 30, 1991