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Amend the amendment by inserting after section 3 the following:
‘Sec. 4. 35-A MRSA §3210-E, sub-§5, as enacted by PL 2009, c. 627, §5 and affected by §12, is amended to read:
 
5. Electricity sales.   Notwithstanding section 3210, the sale of electricity by a competitive electricity provider to a qualified Pine Tree Development Zone business established under Title 30-A is exempt from the requirements of that section and, at the request of the competitive electricity provider, sales tounless the qualified Pine Tree Development Zone businesses must be excluded from any calculation bybusiness requests the commission to determine compliance with that sectionwaive the exemption for the sale of electricity to that Pine Tree Development Zone business.
 
The commission may adopt routine technical rules, as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A, to implement this subsection.’
Amend the amendment by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.
 
SUMMARY
Current law exempts the sale of electricity by a competitive electricity provider to a Pine Tree Development Zone business from the requirements of the portfolio standard established under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, section 3210. Rather than the exemption being permitted upon request of a certified electricity provider, this amendment makes the exemption automatic and allows a qualified Pine Tree Development Zone business to request a waiver from the exemption. The amendment allows the Public Utilities Commission to adopt routine technical rules to implement the exemption.