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VETOES
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H.B. 346
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procurement resources than the present method. Costs associated with such an
undertaking would include initial analysis, increased cost to purchase of products,
maintenance and disposal.
My Administration has doubled the prior Administration's Green Energy
Procurement goals. Along with the Bay Restoration Fund, the Department of General
Services conducted a reverse energy auction for the procurement of electricity. As a
result of that procurement, approximately 13% of the electricity supplied to State
executive departments and agencies will be environmentally friendly "green power"
which consists of electricity produced with renewable resources. This more than
doubles the goal set in 2001 by Executive Order 01.01.2001.02 - Sustaining
Maryland's Future with Clean Power, Green Buildings and Energy Efficiency. That
executive order calls for the procurement of electricity for use within State owned
facilities with a goal of only 6% to be generated from Green Energy.
Maryland receives a large amount of federal funding for construction projects.
Additional costs for environmentally preferable products and equipment may not be
covered by federal standards, thus leaving additional cost to the State. These are
expenditures the State is not currently in a position to undertake and cannot afford.
I am still not persuaded that this legislation will be helpful to Maryland.
For the reasons stated above, I have vetoed House Bill 346.
Yours very truly,
Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr.
Governor
House Bill No. 346
AN ACT concerning
Procurement - Percentage Price Preference - Environmentally Preferable
Products or Equipment
FOR the purpose of providing a certain price preference for environmentally
preferable products or equipment under certain circumstances; requiring the
Board of Public Works to adopt certain regulations concerning the
establishment of a certain percentage price preference; requiring certain units of
State government to establish a list of acceptable environmentally preferable
products or equipment; requiring each unit of State government to review
certain procurement specifications and, to the extent practicable, require the
use of a percentage price preference in their purchase of environmentally
preferable products or equipment; defining a certain term; repealing certain
obsolete language; and generally relating to a percentage price preference for
the procurement of environmentally preferable products or equipment.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - State Finance and Procurement
Section 14-405
Annotated Code of Maryland
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