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2007 California Public Resources Code Article 3. Energy Project Assistance
CA Codes (prc:25442-25443.5)
PUBLIC RESOURCES CODESECTION 25442-25443.5
25442. The commission shall provide loans to local jurisdictions for all of the following purposes: (a) Purchase, maintenance, and evaluation of energy efficient equipment for existing and new facilities, including, but not limited to, equipment related to lights, motors, pumps, water and wastewater systems, boilers, heating, and air conditioning. (b) Purchase, maintenance, and evaluation of small power production systems, including, but not limited to, wind, cogeneration, photovoltaics, geothermal, and hydroelectric systems. (c) Improve the operating efficiency of existing local transportation systems. 25442.5. The commission may award financial assistance for project audits, feasibility studies, engineering and design, and legal and financial analysis related to the purposes of Section 25442. 25442.7. (a) Loans under this article may not exceed five million dollars (,000,000) for any one local jurisdiction unless the commission determines, by unanimous vote, that the public interest and objectives of this chapter would be better served at a higher loan amount. (b) Loan repayments shall be made in accordance with a schedule established by the commission. Repayment of loans shall be made in full unless the commission determines, by unanimous vote, that the public interest and objectives of this chapter would be better served by negotiating a reduced loan repayment for a project that fails to meet the technical or financial performance criteria through no fault of the local jurisdiction. 25443. (a) Principal and interest payments on loans under this article shall be returned to the commission and shall be used to make additional loans to local jurisdictions pursuant to Section 25442 or to provide financial assistance to local jurisdictions pursuant to Section 25441. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission shall, unless it determines that the purposes of this chapter would be better served by establishing an alternative interest rate schedule, periodically set interest rates on the loans based on surveys of existing financial markets and at rates not less than 3 percent per annum. 25443.5. (a) In furtherance of the purposes of the commission as set forth in this chapter, the commission has the power and authority to do all of the following: (1) Borrow money, for the purpose of obtaining funds to make loans pursuant to this chapter, from the California Economic Development Financing Authority, the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, and the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority from the proceeds of revenue bonds issued by any of those agencies. (2) Pledge, to provide collateral in connection with the borrowing of money pursuant to paragraph (1), loans made pursuant to this chapter or Chapter 5.2 (commencing with Section 25410), or the principal and interest payments on loans made pursuant to this chapter or Chapter 5.2 (commencing with Section 25410). (3) Sell loans made pursuant to this chapter or Chapter 5.2 (commencing with Section 25410), at prices determined in the sole discretion of the commission, to the California Economic Development Financing Authority, the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, and the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority to raise funds to enable the commission to make loans to eligible institutions. (4) Enter into loan agreements or other contracts necessary or appropriate in connection with the pledge or sale of loans pursuant to paragraph (2) or (3), or the borrowing of money as provided in paragraph (1), containing any provisions that may be required by the California Economic Development Financing Authority, the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, or the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority as conditions of issuing bonds to fund loans to, or the purchase of loans from, the commission. (b) In connection with the pledging of loans, or of the principal and interest payment on loans, pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), the commission may enter into pledge agreements setting forth the terms and conditions pursuant to which the commission is pledging loans or the principal and interest payment on loans, and may also agree to have the loans held by bond trustees or by independent collateral or escrow agents and to direct that payments received on those loans be paid to those trustee, collateral, or escrow agents. (c) The commission may employ financial consultants, legal advisers, accountants, and other service providers, as may be necessary in its judgment, in connection with activities pursuant to this chapter. (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this chapter provides a complete, separate, additional, and alternative method for implementing the measures authorized by this chapter, including the authority of the eligible institutions or local jurisdictions to have borrowed and to borrow in the future pursuant to loans made pursuant to this chapter or Chapter 5.2 (commencing with Section 25410), and is supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws.
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