ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Phoenix, Arizona
Urges Congress to support legislation to appropriate the funds necessary to implement the Navajo Electrification Demonstration Project.
Last year, the United States Congress enacted Senate Bill 964, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Equitable Compensation Act, which included the Navajo Electrification Demonstration Project. The law requires the Secretary of Energy to establish a 5-year program to assist the Navajo Nation to meet its electricity needs. The purpose of the program is to provide electric power to approximately 18,000 occupied structures on the Navajo Nation that lack electrical power. The intent of the program is to ensure that every Navajo household that requests electrical power has it by year 2006.
The legislation authorized $15 million in grants annually for fiscal years 2002 through 2006 to implement the Navajo Electrification Demonstration Project. The grants would be used to: 1) extend electric transmission and distribution lines to new or existing structures not presently served; 2) purchase and install small gas turbines, wind power systems, solar thermal systems or other forms of locally-generated power; 3) purchase and install other equipment associated with generation, transmission, distribution and storage; and 4) provide training in the installation operation, or maintenance of power lines, facilities or equipment.
H.C.M. 2002 urges Congress to support legislation appropriating $75 million between 2002 and 2006, or $15 million each year, for the Navajo Electrification Demonstration Project.
1. Urges Congress to support legislation appropriating $75 million between 2002 and 2006, or $15 million each year, for the Navajo Electrification Demonstration Project.
2. Requests the Secretary of State to transmit copies of the measure to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and to each Arizona Congressional member.
3. Provides for a general effective date.
EUT 02/05/01 DP 9-0-0-1-0
3rd Read 03/12/01 48-5-7-0
Prepared by Senate Staff
March 30, 2001