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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR STATE COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAMS WAP Reauthorization- 2019 WAP Reauthorization Webinar | 4-18-19 1 Agenda History Whats a reauthorization? Past versions, stakeholders, & Congressional Champions

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR STATE COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAMS

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Agenda

  • History

– What’s a reauthorization? – Past versions, stakeholders, & Congressional Champions

  • Components of the Bill

– Authorization of Appropriations – Renewables – Health Benefits – Contractors – Innovation grants – Admin Funding – Reweatherization – Waivers

  • Differences between House & Senate
  • The Road Ahead

– What didn’t make it into the bill

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What is a Reauthorization Anyway?

  • Underlying statute creating the program

– Lays out Congressional intent – Authorizes Congress to appropriate funds to the program for X amount of years – Authorizations expire -> Need reauthorization

  • Reauthorization

– What can be changed/improved? – What should stay the same? – What is better addressed by DOE rather than legislation? – How can the program grow and innovate? – Often must be part of larger bill

  • Distinct from the yearly Appropriations process that

determines funding level

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History- Past Versions

  • Last reauthorization was in 2007. Authorized WAP

through 2012.

  • Past attempts at reauthorization:

– S.1213 | 113th Congress (2013) – S. 2052 & HR 4345 | 113th Congress (2014) – S. 703 & HR 3420 | 114th Congress (2015) – S. 2012 | 114th Congress (2016) – S. 1460 | 115th Congress (2017)

  • Closest were S. 2012 and S. 1460

– WAP Part of larger energy bill that contained everything from nuclear waste to offshore drilling

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History- Stakeholders

  • NASCSP

– WAP State Offices

  • National Community Action Foundation (NCAF)

– Community Action Agencies

  • National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO)

– State Energy Offices that run WAP

  • Home Performance Coalition (HPC)

– Contractors (Formerly Affordable Comfort, now Building Performance Association)

  • Habitat for Humanity (Not Since 2016)

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Current Bill Sponsors

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S 983-Weatherization Enhancement and Local Energy Efficiency Investment and Accountability Act

Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)

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Current Bill Sponsors

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  • Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY)
  • Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
  • Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL)

HR 2041- Weatherization Enhancement and Local Energy Efficiency Investment and Accountability Act

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Walk Through House Version HR 2041

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Authorization of Appropriations

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Renewables

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Health Benefits

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Contractors

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Contractors

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Innovation Program

  • First proposed in 2013, members of Congress wanted

to inject competition into the program post ARRA

  • Past Versions

– Modeled after Weatherization Innovative Pilot Program (WIPP) under ARRA – “Grants for New Self-Sustaining Low-income, Single Family and Multifamily Housing Energy Retrofit Model Programs to Eligible Multistate Housing and Energy Nonprofit

  • rganizations” (In S. 2012)

– Unclear what innovation meant, simply serve more homes and promote new models of weatherization – Only applicants that were not current WAP subgrantees

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Innovation Program

(Previous Versions)

  • Applicants had to be non-profits that…

– “have an established record of constructing, renovating, repairing, or making energy efficient a total of not less than 250 owner-occupied, single- family or multifamily homes per year for low-income households, either directly or through affiliates, chapters, or other direct partners (using the most recent year for which data are available).” – Very few organizations fit the definition: Habitat for Humanity, Rebuilding Together, etc.

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Innovation Program

(Previous Versions)

  • Funding

– Initially created as an entirely separate program

  • E.g. WAP gets an appropriation and new program gets an

appropriation

  • Concern that new program would be funded instead of WAP

– Threshold & percentage system was created

  • E.g. If WAP receives $____, ___% goes into innovation fund

– As late as 2017 version (S. 1460):

  • 2% if appropriation is less that $225 million
  • 5% if appropriation is between $225 million and $260 million
  • 10% if the amount is more than $260 Million

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Innovation Program

(Previous Versions)

  • Problems

– Giving $$ to organizations who haven’t been found to do weatherization effectively (Oak Ridge WIPP evaluation) – High percentages of funds directed to innovation and reducing the core program – Unclear what projects funds would be used for

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Current Innovation Program

  • Clear Purposes

– Addressing deferrals

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Current Innovation Program

  • Clear Purposes

– Renewables – Weatherization Plus Health

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Current Innovation Program

  • Clear Purposes

– Innovative practices

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More Specifically…

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More Specifically…

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More Specifically…

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Current Innovation Program

  • Who can apply?

– State WAP Grantees – WAP Subgrantees – Other Non-profits

  • Funding

– 2% if appropriation is between $225 million and $260 million – 4% if appropriation is between $260 million and $300 million – 6% if appropriation is above $300 million – Total program capped at $25 million – Each grant up to $2 million

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Current Innovation Program

  • Why is this better?

– Innovation has a floor and a ceiling, limits funds being reduced from core program – True competition, traditional WAP network compete against new applicants (if any) – Funds can be used for priorities of the network (e.g. healthy homes, renewables, deferrals, new tech, etc.) – Preference for partnerships & regional coordination in the award factors

  • Concerns remain

– What is DOE’s capacity to administer this? – Slightly higher appropriation needed to trigger warm weather formula – SERC still on the books, DOE can run if $275 million – DOE contract directly with local agency is uncharted territory

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Increase in Admin

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Reweatherization Date

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Reweatherization Date

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Waivers

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Slight Differences

  • House and Senate version have a few variations

that will need to be resolved

  • Senate bill creates definition of “interim services”

in reference to going back into the home for evaluation, education etc.

– House language is better in our view

  • Record of “constructing, renovating, repairing,

and making energy efficient single-family, multifamily, or manufactured homes that are

  • ccupied by low-income persons”

– House version says “or”, Senate language is better

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Road Ahead

  • DOE has been asked to officially weigh in on

the bill

  • Challenges to State role
  • Hearing was held on April 10th along with 7
  • ther bills

– More hearings, “markup” where amendments will be considered

  • Passed as standalone legislation or picked up

in a larger package

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Road Ahead

  • More cosponsors join on, build more

bipartisan support

  • Reauthorization is not perfect but…

– Core program is protected – Best shot at reauthorization in a long time – NASCSP, NASEO, HPC, NCAF all support – NASCSP will continue to shape the bill and process – Provides opportunity for program modernization without mandates – Addresses priorities voiced by the network

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Questions???

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Stay In Touch

  • Eric Behna | ebehna@nascsp.org
  • Amy Klusmeier | aklusmeier@nascsp.org

Don’t hesitate to reach out with additional feedback and questions!

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