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41-17A-1
Section 41-17A-1 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature of Alabama makes the following
findings and statements: (1) Energy use associated with the operation of state motor vehicle
fleets exacerbates local air quality problems and results in greenhouse gas emissions that
contribute to global climate change. (2) Agencies and departments of state government have
a significant role to play in improving local air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions
by improving the energy efficiency of their fleets and reducing emissions from fleet operations.
(3) Improving the energy efficiency of state fleets will result in a significant monetary
savings in the long term. (b) The Legislature expresses its intent as follows: (1) To express
its power as a participant in the marketplace to ensure that purchases and expenditures of
public monies are made in a manner consistent with the policies of improving local air quality,
reducing Alabama's water pollution of hazardous waste oil, reducing the...
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41-17A-5
Section 41-17A-5 Procurement policies. (a) In order to accomplish the goals stated in
Section 41-17A-4, the State of Alabama shall modify procurement procedures, implement
policies, conduct reviews, and take other actions as provided in this section. (b)
The following shall be the official policies of the State of Alabama pursuant to this chapter:
(1) To purchase, lease, or otherwise obtain or procure the most energy efficient vehicles
possible that meet the operational needs of the department or agency for which the vehicles
are intended by using life cycle costing as a method of determining the most cost efficient
vehicles for the departments or agencies. (2) To manage and operate its fleets in a manner
that is energy efficient, that minimizes emissions, and that reduces petroleum dependency
by utilizing specified proven technology identified by the Green Fleets Review Committee.
(3) To review every new vehicle purchase request and modify as necessary to ensure that the
vehicle class...
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40-18-1
Section 40-18-1 Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall
have the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) ADVANCED FOSSIL-BASED GENERATION.
The production of electricity from fossil-based generation with the use of technology or efficiency
improvements to control or reduce carbon emissions, including but not limited to, technologies
described in 26 U.S.C. § 48A(f), as such provision existed on December 31, 2007. (2) ALTERNATIVE
ENERGY RESOURCES. Coal gasification or liquefaction, nuclear, and advanced fossil-based generation.
(3) BIOMASS. Animals and plants, and the waste, by-products, or derivatives of either, including,
but not limited to, the materials described in 26 U.S.C. §§ 45(c)(2), 45(c)(3), 45K(c)(3),
or 48B(c)(4). (4) BUSINESS TRUST. Any entity which is a business trust for federal income
tax purposes. (5) CAPTIVE REIT. Any REIT whose shares or certificates of beneficial interest
are not regularly traded on an established...
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22-28A-2
Section 22-28A-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature of Alabama hereby finds as follows:
(1) The United States is a signatory to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Global
Climate Change (FCCC). (2) The Kyoto Protocol to expand the scope of the FCCC was negotiated
in December 1997, in Kyoto, Japan, requiring the United States to reduce emissions of greenhouse
gases such as carbon dioxide and methane by seven percent from 1990 emission levels during
the period 2008 to 2012, with similar reduction obligations for other major industrial nations.
(3) Developing nations, including China, India, Mexico, Indonesia, and Brazil are exempt from
greenhouse gas emission limitation requirements in the FCCC. (4) Developing nations refused
in the Kyoto negotiations to accept any new commitments for greenhouse gas emission limitations
through the Kyoto Protocol or other agreements. (5) With respect to new commitments under
the FCCC, President Clinton pledged on October 22, 1997, that the...
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29-2-273
Section 29-2-273 Goals and objectives; funding. (a) The committee shall make a continuous
study of the energy supply for the state and make recommendations for legislation and initiatives
that will create the necessary institutional and regulatory changes to accomplish the overall
goals and objectives of the state in a manner that benefits the economy and protects the environment.
(b) The continuing study conducted by the committee, and recommendations submitted to the
Governor and the Legislature, shall be designed to achieve the following goals and objectives,
provided that those goals and objectives may be met while still providing reliable and affordable
energy to Alabama residents: (1) The expansion of diverse sources of fuels to be used to meet
Alabama's current and future energy needs through each of the following methods: a. Encouraging
a diverse fuel mix among electric supply generation that promotes reliability and minimizes
negative impacts that would result from electric...
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11-81-241
Section 11-81-241 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words
shall have the following meanings: (1) COSTS OF A QUALIFIED PROJECT. All costs including,
but not limited to, the following: a. All costs of acquisition, by purchase or otherwise,
construction, assembly, installation, modification, renovation, or rehabilitation incurred
in connection with any qualified project or any part of any qualified project. b. All costs
of real property, fixtures, or personal property used in or in connection with or necessary
for any qualified project or for any facilities related thereto, including, but not limited
to, the following: 1. The cost of all land, estates for years, easements, rights, improvements,
water rights, connections for utility services, fees, franchises, permits, approvals, licenses,
and certificates. 2. The cost of securing any franchises, permits, approvals, licenses, or
certificates. 3. The cost of preparation of any application therefor and the cost of...
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22-28A-4
Section 22-28A-4 Voluntary initiatives. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to
limit or to impede state or private participation in any on-going voluntary initiatives to
reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, including, but not limited to, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's Green Lights program, the U.S. Department of Energy's Climate Challenge
program, and similar state and federal initiatives relying on voluntary participation. (Act
98-668, p. 1468, §4.)...
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22-28A-3
Section 22-28A-3 Regulations, commitments relating to reduction of greenhouse gases.
(a) Effective immediately, the Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management
shall refrain from proposing or promulgating any new regulations intended in whole or in part
to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, as such gases are defined by the Kyoto Protocol,
from the residential, commercial, industrial, electric utility, or transportation sectors
unless such reductions are required under existing statutes. (b) In the absence of a resolution
or other act of the Legislature of the State of Alabama approving same, the Director of the
Alabama Department of Environmental Management shall not submit to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency or to any other agency of the federal government any legally enforceable
commitments related to the reduction of greenhouse gases, as such gases are defined by the
Kyoto Protocol unless such reductions are required under existing statutes. (Act...
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22-32-4
Section 22-32-4 Authorization to operate site; users' charges; lease or contract for
operation and disposal of low-level radioactive wastes. (a) The Alabama Department of Energy
is authorized to operate a treatment, storage or disposal site for low-level radioactive wastes
pursuant to any license issued by the Radiation Control Agency. The Alabama Department of
Energy is authorized to charge each user of any licensed site within the state that user's
proportionate share of the costs for handling of the wastes. These costs shall be paid on
the basis of a fee per volume of wastes received at each site. Such fee shall be paid to the
Department of Energy and may include, but not be limited to costs of: (1) Operating fund (as
hereinafter provided for), including: labor and equipment, liability insurance, contingency
costs, licensing and inspection fees of the Radiation Control Agency for operation of the
site; (2) Perpetual cost fund costs (as hereinafter provided for); (3) Operating fund...
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29-2-270
Section 29-2-270 Legislative findings. The Legislature makes the following findings
and statements: (1) The reduction of the dependence on foreign oil is necessary to preserve
and protect our national security. (2) Reliable, plentiful, and affordable energy and the
effective distribution of energy are vital to the support and growth of all sectors of Alabama's
economy. (3) The future energy needs of the state also present unique opportunities to diversify
the state's energy supply and provide new opportunities for agriculturally based products
and Alabama based clean energy technologies. (4) Energy derived from agriculturally and forest
based products offers the potential to expand rural and economic development in Alabama. (5)
Increasing the efficiency of existing technology combined with the development of new technologies,
including coal gasification, coal liquification, advanced coal-based generation, and nuclear
power, should be encouraged as ways of producing more energy with...
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