90-4-616. Transfer of energy savings from projects.
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90-4-616 . Transfer of energy savings from projects.
(1)In preparing the executive budget each biennium, for each state agency participating in the energy conservation program by using appropriations from the general fund or the energy conservation capital projects account created in 90-4-617 , the governor shall include an estimate of the energy cost savings expected for that agency in each year of the biennium.
(2)Each session, the legislature shall review the governor's submission pursuant to 90-4-606 and subsection
(1)of this section and, unless the legislature disapproves, shall include in the general appropriations act authority for each participating state agency, subject to 90-4-619 , to transfer funds in an amount equal to the agency's estimated energy cost savings to the energy conservation repayment account established in 90-4-615 . Except as provided in 90-4-619 , these transfers must continue until the cost of the project, including energy analysis, acquisition and installation costs of energy saving equipment or systems, and the cost of the construction of improvements in state buildings, facilities, or structures, plus annual interest payments at a rate set pursuant to 90-4-605
(6)of the unpaid balance of the cost of the project, has been paid into the energy conservation repayment account.
(3)The current level utility appropriations of state agencies participating in the energy conservation program must be reduced by the sum of the amounts approved to be transferred pursuant to subsection (2).
(4)On request of the division, each participating state agency shall transfer the amounts approved pursuant to subsection (2).