CHAPTER 50

S.P. 388 - L.D. 1184

Resolve, To Encourage Use of Alternative Energy Sources

Sec. 1. Energy Resources Council to study. Resolved: That the Energy Resources Council, established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 3327, in coordination with the Department of Environmental Protection, shall study:

1. The costs and benefits of state government actions and options to stimulate an increase in the percentage of various alternative transportation fuels and alternatively fueled vehicles used in the State;

2. The costs and benefits of state government actions and options to stimulate an increase in the production of biofuels in the State;

3. The related goals, practices, results and markets that exist in other states and provinces, especially those that share fuel or vehicle markets with Maine;

4. The potential for synergies between alternative transportation fuel and alternative heating fuel sectors and infrastructure;

5. The costs and benefits and actual or predicted transportation energy efficiency results of other initiatives, including dense multiuse development, long-term traffic and modal