Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy

 

AGENDA

 

Room 8

April 3, 2018 - April 6, 2018

Last Updated 4/6/2018 1:05 PM

 

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

-After the Floor Renewable Energy in Constrained Regions of the Grid

S. 115

Ed Macnamara, Director, Energy Planning and Resources Division, Department of Public Service

Hantz Presume, VELCO

Andrea Cohen, Manager, Government Affairs and Member Relations, Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Craig Kieney, Manager of Power Planning, VEC

Patricia Richards, General Manager, Washington Electric Coop

Melissa Bailey, Legislative & Regulatory Affairs Representative, Vermont Supply Authority

Gregg Faber, Analyst, Public Utility Commission

 

12:00 PM Adjourn

 

Wednesday, April 04, 2018

8:30 AM H. 560 - An act relating to household products containing hazardous substances

Introduction and Walk through

Rep. David L. Deen, House Committee on Natural Resources, Fish and Wildlife

Michael O'Grady, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

9:00 AM S. 271 - An act relating to electric vehicles

Aaron Adler, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

9:30 AM S. 271 - An act relating to electric vehicles

Jared Ulmer, Climate & Health Program Coordinator, Vermont Department of Health

 

9:45 AM Break

 

10:00 AM Decarbonization Study

 Introduction H. 763

 

 

~ Climate Change

SECTION  C.110  of H. 924

Rep. Catherine Toll, Appropriations Committee

 

~ JFO Walk through

Study language of H. 924

Joyce Manchester, Senior Economist, Joint Fiscal Office

 

~ GHG Inventory

Jeff Merrell, Agency of Natural Resources

 

~ S. 270 - An act relating to the preparation of a fiscal note on any bill that creates an electric, thermal, or transportation measure that results in changes to carbon emissions

Walk through

Rebecca Wasserman, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

~ Mayors Coalition

Anne Watson, Mayor, Montpelier, VT

 

~ Governor's Climate Acton Commission (CAC)

Linda McGinnis, Board Member, Energy Action Network

Johanna Miller, Energy & Climate Program Director, Vermont Natural Resources Council

Karen Lafayette, Lobbyist, Vermont Low Income Advocacy Council

 

12:00 PM Adjourn

 

1:00 AM Senate Floor

 

Thursday, April 5, 2018

 

9:00 AM H. 554 - An act relating to the regulation of dams

Walk through

Michael O'Grady, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Steve Hannah, Department of Environmental Conservation

Neil Kamman, Senior Policy Advisor, Department of Environmental Conservation

Brian T. Fitzgerald, Dam Project & Vermont Dam Task Force, VNRC

Roy Schiff, Water Resources Engineer & Scientist, Milone & MacBroom, Inc.

Gregg Faber, Analyst, Public Utility Commission

Monica Stillman, Environmental Analyst, Public Utility Commission

Molly Mahar, President, Vermont Ski Areas Association

Lang Durfee, Bethel Mills

Warren Coleman, Lobbyist, Vermont Golf Association and Green Mountain Power

Karen Horn, Director, Public Policy & Advocacy, Vermont League of Cities and Towns

Bob Finucane, Retired Engineer

Phil Huffman, Director of Landscape Conservation and Policy, The Nature Conservancy in Vermont

 

12:00 PM Adjourn

 

1:00 PM Senate Floor

 

Friday, April 6, 2018

9:00 AM H. 777 - An act relating to the Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund

Terisa Thomas, DEC CWSRF Program Manager, Agency of Natural Resources

 

10:00 AM H. 777 - An act relating to the Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund

Rebecca Ellis, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Environmental Conservation - Invited

Kari Dolan, Clean Water Initiative Program Manager, Department of Environmental Conservation - Invited

 

10:15 AM Adjourn

 

11:30 AM Senate Floor

 

ATTENTION WITNESSES- Please email handouts to the committee assistant before your scheduled meeting date and bring 6 hard copies. Please write your name, organization, date and title on each document. With few exceptions, any documents you hand out to a committee, or send to a committee assistant, are open to the public and may be posted to the committee’s webpage.

 

If you have any questions and comments, please contact

 Jude Newman at 828-2296 or jnewman@leg.state.vt.us