6. Notification. An agency, municipality or granting authority that provides a housing subsidy as described in this section must notify the Department of Economic and Community Development, Energy Conservation Division Public Utilities Commission that the application complies with the residential energy requirements of this section. Notification must be in a form prescribed by rule by the commissioner commission.

Sec. RR-9. 10 MRSA §1415-H, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1999, c. 657, §4, is further amended to r415:

1. Certification. Before installing permanent service to a commercial or institutional building, a transmission and distribution utility, as defined in Title 35-A, section 102, shall obtain from the owner of the building or from the owner's legal agent, on a form provided by the utility, a signed certification that the building complies with the requirements of section 1415-D. A copy of the signed certification must be provided by the transmission and distribution utility to the Department of Economic and Community Development, Energy Conservation Division Public Utilities Commission or a successor agency charged with administering energy building standards.

Sec. RR-10. 35-A MRSA §3211-B is enacted to read:

§3211-B.__Additional energy conservation programs

In addition to the programs and activities specified in section 3211-A, subsection 2, the commission shall administer the following energy conservation programs.

1.__Federally mandated programs.__The director shall administer the following federally mandated programs, formerly administered by the Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of Business Development:

A.__State Energy Conservation Program;

B.__Energy Extension Service; and

C.__Institutional Conservation Program.

2.__Energy conservation standards.__The commission shall adopt energy conservation standards and adopt rules for administration of the standards and the certification of energy-efficient buildings, as defined in Title 10, chapter 214.