1.
Short title; table of
contents
(a)
This Act may be cited
as the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2014
.
(b)
The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Definition of Secretary.
TITLE I—Buildings
Subtitle A—Building energy codes
Sec. 101. Greater energy efficiency in building codes.
Subtitle B—Worker training and capacity building
Sec. 111. Building training and assessment centers.
Sec. 112. Career skills training.
Subtitle C—School buildings
Sec. 121. Coordination of energy retrofitting assistance for schools.
Subtitle D—Better buildings
Sec. 131. Energy efficiency in Federal and other buildings.
Sec. 132. Separate spaces with high-performance energy efficiency measures.
Sec. 133. Tenant star program.
Subtitle E—Energy information for commercial buildings
Sec. 141. Energy information for commercial buildings.
TITLE II—Industrial efficiency and competitiveness
Subtitle A—Manufacturing energy efficiency
Sec. 201. Purposes.
Sec. 202. Future of Industry program.
Sec. 203. Sustainable manufacturing initiative.
Sec. 204. Conforming amendments.
Subtitle B—Supply Star
Sec. 211. Supply Star.
Subtitle C—Electric motor rebate program
Sec. 221. Energy saving motor control, electric motor, and advanced motor systems rebate program.
Subtitle D—Transformer rebate program
Sec. 231. Energy efficient transformer rebate program.
TITLE III—Federal agency energy efficiency
Sec. 301. Energy-efficient and energy-saving information technologies.
Sec. 302. Availability of funds for design updates.
Sec. 303. Energy efficient data centers.
Sec. 304. Budget-neutral demonstration program for energy and water conservation improvements at
multifamily residential units.
TITLE IV—Regulatory provisions
Subtitle A—Third-party certification under Energy Star program
Sec. 401. Third-party certification under Energy Star program.
Subtitle B—Federal green buildings
Sec. 411. High-performance green Federal buildings.
Subtitle C—Water heaters
Sec. 421. Grid-enabled water heaters.
Subtitle D—Energy performance requirement for Federal buildings
Sec. 431. Energy performance requirement for Federal buildings.
Sec. 432. Federal building energy efficiency performance standards; certification system and level
for green buildings.
Sec. 433. Enhanced energy efficiency underwriting.
Subtitle E—Third party testing
Sec. 441. Voluntary certification programs for air conditioning, furnace, boiler, heat pump, and
water heater products.
TITLE V—Miscellaneous
Sec. 501. Offset.
Sec. 502. Budgetary effects.
Sec. 503. Advance appropriations required.
2.
In this Act, the
term Secretary means the Secretary of Energy.
<enum>I</enum>
<header>Buildings</header>
<subtitle id="id347b63f4-cbc2-411a-ba2f-cfff3db34d4d">
<enum>A</enum>
<header>Building
energy codes</header>
<section id="id2335CC177D49410D8F064F629F81A6B7">
<enum>101.</enum>
<header>Greater energy
efficiency in building codes</header>
<subsection id="idAA7D004B440244EBB649FCF8FD80A980">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Definitions</header>
<text>Section
303 of the Energy Conservation and Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6832) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idB1CCB6F82ED34D72A86855A80D8E0679">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>by striking
paragraph (14) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id62568A7D63964838A30A72EE83E5EC00" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id25EF88996CA84967A74C2692C0C64771">
<enum>(14)</enum>
<header>Model building
energy code</header>
<text>The term <term>model building energy code</term>
means a voluntary building energy code and standards developed and
updated
through a consensus process among interested persons, such as the
IECC or the
code used by—</text>
<subparagraph id="idCD5B753A29024122BB7BD8E8914C3F2B">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>the Council of
American Building Officials, or its legal successor, International
Code
Council, Inc.;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id2ED48B9BB5A246C793E6EC82E770E333">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>the American
Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers;
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id7A6ECFC899C74FABA5D74E06D0460F3F">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>other appropriate
organizations.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idB99D7C64A36847F684779657CC2012D1">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id79F0DCACE9C5416899A71DEC016C71AD" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id2ca536af-0e67-4fdd-8b32-8e0f2e2bf87e">
<enum>(17)</enum>
<header>IECC</header>
<text>The
term <term>IECC</term> means the International Energy Conservation Code.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id28F4BDEC32234C15A7C305B5A60D7D36">
<enum>(18)</enum>
<header>Indian
tribe</header>
<text>The term <term>Indian tribe</term> has the meaning given
the term in section 4 of the Native American Housing Assistance and
Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C.
4103).</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd68f9b31-03f6-4046-911d-ab7261594098">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>State
building energy efficiency codes</header>
<text>Section 304 of the Energy
Conservation and Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6833) is amended to read as
follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id85C7235C1CE54E7BA0C27B8602891B13" style="OLC">
<section id="id25544534-b23b-4f6f-b473-e83069a6a0b6">
<enum>304.</enum>
<header>Updating
State building energy efficiency codes</header>
<subsection id="id24647201-6884-4160-9277-ef5321a5d126">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>The Secretary shall—</text>
<paragraph id="id6f6128ca-90a2-4b94-abaf-860a90b2a86c">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>encourage and
support the adoption of building energy codes by States, Indian
tribes, and, as
appropriate, by local governments that meet or exceed the model
building energy
codes, or achieve equivalent or greater energy savings; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ida49107b2-f667-4970-9ff0-c09b2428b6f4">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>support full
compliance with the State and local codes.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id767a0a09-ff9d-41c2-94a8-eb35b5125ff2">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>State and
Indian tribe certification of building energy code updates</header>
<paragraph id="id298852ec-e3f0-4e7b-8e95-92906389b7b2">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Review and
updating of codes by each State and Indian tribe</header>
<subparagraph id="idead0dc0a-cf23-4c29-a9dc-6ba6c8486dfd">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>Not later than 2 years after the date on which a model
building energy code is updated, each State or Indian tribe shall
certify
whether or not the State or Indian tribe, respectively, has
reviewed and
updated the energy provisions of the building code of the State or
Indian
tribe, respectively.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idd731490c-891c-4e7b-bfdc-c7d606c7ea3c">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Demonstration</header>
<text>The
certification shall include a demonstration of whether or not the
energy
savings for the code provisions that are in effect throughout the
State or
Indian tribal territory meet or exceed—</text>
<clause id="idae05cc21-e074-4f80-bd52-773f668e88e8">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>the energy
savings of the updated model building energy code; or</text>
</clause><clause id="idd393b32f-ffd2-4f02-9fc1-39da6ffe3581">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>the targets
established under section 307(b)(2).</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9cff36a5-a41a-46ed-bbea-63aad0b8688e">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<header>No model
building energy code update</header>
<text>If a model building energy code is
not updated by a target date established under section
307(b)(2)(D), each State
or Indian tribe shall, not later than 2 years after the specified
date, certify
whether or not the State or Indian tribe, respectively, has
reviewed and
updated the energy provisions of the building code of the State or
Indian
tribe, respectively, to meet or exceed the target in section
307(b)(2).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id37e4636c-71d4-49ca-bfe0-0c6f1cfd8d7b">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Validation
by Secretary</header>
<text>Not later than 90 days after a State or Indian tribe
certification under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="idd9ed7248-dff8-4f25-8875-d257996565e9">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>determine
whether the code provisions of the State or Indian tribe,
respectively, meet
the criteria specified in paragraph (1); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id28b3a82d-7feb-4ed1-b187-c4a1aa6f59fe">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>if the
determination is positive, validate the certification.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idb00a0ecd-2306-4f02-954d-069e2a24e00d">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Improvements
in compliance with building energy codes</header>
<paragraph id="ide41f999f-3183-4b46-9186-c7048c36d1a4">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Requirement</header>
<subparagraph id="id7e70223e-42e4-4f76-8c9b-a5cebe53552c">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>Not later than 3 years after the date of a certification
under subsection (b), each State and Indian tribe shall certify
whether or not
the State and Indian tribe, respectively, has—</text>
<clause id="id6721fd7f-58b0-43b0-b8aa-7c3305859a20">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>achieved full
compliance under paragraph (3) with the applicable certified State
and Indian
tribe building energy code or with the associated model building
energy code;
or</text>
</clause><clause id="id02e94d8a-fde8-4436-9764-56131ee5061b">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>made
significant progress under paragraph (4) toward achieving
compliance with the
applicable certified State and Indian tribe building energy code or
with the
associated model building energy code.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9e294917-7840-4318-8bc2-2ed84097d210">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Repeat
certifications</header>
<text>If the State or Indian tribe certifies progress
toward achieving compliance, the State or Indian tribe shall repeat
the
certification until the State or Indian tribe certifies that the
State or
Indian tribe has achieved full compliance, respectively.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idda7c5714-e66e-40dc-a78d-6f05e1076f10">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Measurement
of compliance</header>
<text>A certification under paragraph (1) shall include
documentation of the rate of compliance based on—</text>
<subparagraph id="idfc78c77f-ffba-48bc-b62f-5bc4f3364fda">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>independent
inspections of a random sample of the buildings covered by the code
in the
preceding year; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idbd927aa9-0816-46d2-8478-0d56369a931f">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>an
alternative method that yields an accurate measure of compliance.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id1d508f52-e62e-43ab-8f8a-1988e61b12fc">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Achievement
of compliance</header>
<text>A State or Indian tribe shall be considered to
achieve full compliance under paragraph (1) if—</text>
<subparagraph id="idcb00e54c-3be7-4b97-9738-465a69372463">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>at least 90
percent of building space covered by the code in the preceding year
substantially meets all the requirements of the applicable code
specified in
paragraph (1), or achieves equivalent or greater energy savings
level;
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id4884781b-7005-4c0c-b11d-fff4bff62201">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>the estimated
excess energy use of buildings that did not meet the applicable
code specified
in paragraph (1) in the preceding year, compared to a baseline of
comparable
buildings that meet this code, is not more than 5 percent of the
estimated
energy use of all buildings covered by this code during the
preceding
year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ide07a0a26-ffc7-48de-b01f-eb445614c0b0">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Significant
progress toward achievement of compliance</header>
<text>A State or Indian tribe
shall be considered to have made significant progress toward
achieving
compliance for purposes of paragraph (1) if the State or Indian
tribe—</text>
<subparagraph id="id4f4156c9-0154-4f6d-8fa3-a8cc65d9dd5a">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>has developed
and is implementing a plan for achieving compliance during the
8-year-period
beginning on the date of enactment of this paragraph, including
annual targets
for compliance and active training and enforcement programs; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb9cf0e76-90fd-4c7c-bae2-bd37a1426682">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>has met the
most recent target under subparagraph (A).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idd667fc17-1295-4878-88cc-e86797cfe567">
<enum>(5)</enum>
<header>Validation
by Secretary</header>
<text>Not later than 90 days after a State or Indian tribe
certification under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="idbc6e15f3-a3d4-4ffc-b893-ae0f929b3a52">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>determine
whether the State or Indian tribe has demonstrated meeting the
criteria of this
subsection, including accurate measurement of compliance; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id61a2c2c9-e9f4-4e66-a5c6-fb43c09c0aec">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>if the
determination is positive, validate the certification.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idce13cabd-a153-4eb4-8b32-6aae7cbde8b9">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header>States or
Indian tribes that do not achieve compliance</header>
<paragraph id="id6dc7990d-e38b-411b-b42e-5c48eb305246">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Reporting</header>
<text>A
State or Indian tribe that has not made a certification required
under
subsection (b) or (c) by the applicable deadline shall submit to
the Secretary
a report on—</text>
<subparagraph id="idadf5298a-cdb2-408d-ad3a-b2e921295eea">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>the status of
the State or Indian tribe with respect to meeting the requirements
and
submitting the certification; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id3505ea74-29bf-4784-9630-0f415fc53d3f">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>a plan for
meeting the requirements and submitting the certification.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID7a2c5486a7854809a5af5a24588167bf">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Federal
support</header>
<text>For any State or Indian tribe for which the Secretary has
not validated a certification by a deadline under subsection (b) or
(c), the
lack of the certification may be a consideration for Federal
support authorized
under this section for code adoption and compliance activities.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID0bda389e14a44535b46c899fee3fc3de">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Local
government</header>
<text>In any State or Indian tribe for which the Secretary
has not validated a certification under subsection (b) or (c), a
local
government may be eligible for Federal support by meeting the
certification
requirements of subsections (b) and (c).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id960abdd1-3ba9-4d36-9ff0-f3ba1411128d">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Annual
reports by Secretary</header>
<subparagraph id="id116e2c22-b301-4daa-aa4d-09a70bbac468">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>The Secretary shall annually submit to Congress, and
publish in the Federal Register, a report on—</text>
<clause id="idf0c225f0-086d-4a0a-86e7-359e7dae3cc7">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>the status of
model building energy codes;</text>
</clause><clause id="idd155cee7-4c36-43f3-b98c-13011f063b7c">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>the status
of code adoption and compliance in the States and Indian tribes;</text>
</clause><clause id="id5a1b2eb3-2ea0-461b-9a81-1d8df8a5db27">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>implementation
of this section; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id3fe184ed-1bc6-4850-9907-950c4e1d8b35">
<enum>(iv)</enum>
<text>improvements
in energy savings over time as result of the targets established
under section
307(b)(2).</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id04ca2301-4cd5-47d8-8fd1-443a74e2c837">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Impacts</header>
<text>The
report shall include estimates of impacts of past action under this
section,
and potential impacts of further action, on—</text>
<clause id="id7b2e9c43-10cb-4bc1-a7e8-d78ad78fdf6f">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>upfront
financial and construction costs, cost benefits and returns (using
investment
analysis), and lifetime energy use for buildings;</text>
</clause><clause id="id3a66467f-7d3a-4a88-8e05-5bda1e5d89c6">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>resulting
energy costs to individuals and businesses; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id20713271-6a4b-4561-9770-956754590ed5">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>resulting
overall annual building ownership and operating costs.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idfc9029a1-22ab-4814-8266-cb1e3b3a3184">
<enum>(e)</enum>
<header>Technical
assistance to States and Indian tribes</header>
<text>The Secretary shall
provide technical assistance to States and Indian tribes to
implement the goals
and requirements of this section, including procedures and
technical analysis
for States and Indian tribes—</text>
<paragraph id="idA3CF365830B64E2985AC3BCD25194F08">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>to improve and
implement State residential and commercial building energy codes;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id9ea82f43-afae-4940-a226-ddd031dfbe84">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>to
demonstrate that the code provisions of the States and Indian
tribes achieve
equivalent or greater energy savings than the model building energy
codes and
targets;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idfb3056a4-2332-4128-9a20-ab65d2a5ecfc">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text>to document
the rate of compliance with a building energy code; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id37c48f6e-35f9-4df3-9d28-30a309cfe9a1">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<text>to otherwise
promote the design and construction of energy efficient buildings.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ide6098097-d5ce-4e2f-9678-2e7f8e2dfcad">
<enum>(f)</enum>
<header>Availability
of incentive funding</header>
<paragraph id="id3b8be199-a59c-44d0-8ff0-9eae6b0eacf3">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>The Secretary shall provide incentive funding to States
and Indian tribes—</text>
<subparagraph id="id8094f578-0334-48ca-9f69-3c35b9894a5b">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>to implement
the requirements of this section;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id396070ab-78be-4442-bb7f-62fdb0ae6c75">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>to improve
and implement residential and commercial building energy codes,
including
increasing and verifying compliance with the codes and training of
State,
tribal, and local building code officials to implement and enforce
the codes;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb0c5f139-8a0b-4b2b-a5fb-b7e511be2cd0">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>to promote
building energy efficiency through the use of the codes.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id608a8e5e-74de-407d-9128-ae99ef9912bf">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Additional
funding</header>
<text>Additional funding shall be provided under this
subsection for implementation of a plan to achieve and document
full compliance
with residential and commercial building energy codes under
subsection
(c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDcf380c6b47c049fa9fa77514f7a693c8">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>to a State or
Indian tribe for which the Secretary has validated a certification
under
subsection (b) or (c); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id1a7cf048-5c6e-45b5-98fd-aa48546104ad">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>in a State or
Indian tribe that is not eligible under subparagraph (A), to a
local government
that is eligible under this section.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ida0af2956-ab48-495c-894b-f47921ea1fc7">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Training</header>
<text>Of
the amounts made available under this subsection, the State or
Indian tribe may
use amounts required, but not to exceed $750,000 for a State, to
train State
and local building code officials to implement and enforce codes
described in
paragraph (2).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id828045d3-30bc-4f3b-8247-237440589c34">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Local
governments</header>
<text>States may share grants under this subsection with
local governments that implement and enforce the codes.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID3aa4a84464e04fa4aaf6c0368a5e3a2f">
<enum>(g)</enum>
<header>Stretch codes
and advanced standards</header>
<paragraph id="ID5d49b936be854c93a7f65e988a0cc215">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>The Secretary shall provide technical and financial
support for the development of stretch codes and advanced standards
for
residential and commercial buildings for use as—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDd34ab458309b43739262002f381b94c5">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>an option for
adoption as a building energy code by local, tribal, or State
governments;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDf5cd0fb2ae424ac2bf20a8b41c0ca4e1">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>guidelines for
energy-efficient building design.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDaa86c3b002174f95a3c34990babed676">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Targets</header>
<text>The
stretch codes and advanced standards shall be designed—</text>
<subparagraph id="idE300292B6EDE470AAA3AFD20CFD53FB2">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>to achieve
substantial energy savings compared to the model building energy
codes;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id2056FCDD804848998F1E6615BAB3E628">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>to meet targets
under section 307(b), if available, at least 3 to 6 years in
advance of the
target years.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id81fdf070-e53e-46f8-b812-5ce24cae8bac">
<enum>(h)</enum>
<header>Studies</header>
<text>The
Secretary, in consultation with building science experts from the
National
Laboratories and institutions of higher education, designers and
builders of
energy-efficient residential and commercial buildings, code
officials, and
other stakeholders, shall undertake a study of the feasibility,
impact,
economics, and merit of—</text>
<paragraph id="ida3392673-43b2-48c7-abeb-0da5e1ed4c8d">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>code
improvements that would require that buildings be designed, sited,
and
constructed in a manner that makes the buildings more adaptable in
the future
to become zero-net-energy after initial construction, as advances
are achieved
in energy-saving technologies;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id8de13d6a-dc63-4554-9495-f2c1449f86b2">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>code
procedures to incorporate measured lifetimes, not just first-year
energy use,
in trade-offs and performance calculations; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id13975f7f-52dc-42a9-848a-948fb03681b7">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text>legislative
options for increasing energy savings from building energy codes,
including
additional incentives for effective State and local action, and
verification of
compliance with and enforcement of a code other than by a State or
local
government.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id843243562d034c08b938447404b6e735">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<header>Effect on other
laws</header>
<text>Nothing in this section or section 307 supersedes or
modifies the application of sections 321 through 346 of the Energy
Policy and
Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6291 et seq.).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idf95f9dd5-ec11-4af5-8944-d84161f6ed82">
<enum>(j)</enum>
<header>Authorization
of appropriations</header>
<text>There are authorized to be appropriated to
carry out this section and section 307 $200,000,000, to remain
available until
expended.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2A141D0F467847909FFEE4F6117090D4">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Federal
building energy efficiency standards</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 305 of the Energy Conservation and
Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6834) is amended by striking <quote>voluntary
building energy code</quote> each place it appears in subsections (a)(2)(B) and
(b) and inserting <quote>model building energy code</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id65B42DB41D884362A36169D2C8E96E99">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header>Model building
energy codes</header>
<text>Section 307 of the Energy Conservation and
Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6836) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCE06FF1B9735437CB9BC1F1A4B8ECDB2" style="OLC">
<section id="idA758956ABF1D4C4ABDF98AB0FF61807E">
<enum>307.</enum>
<header>Support for
model building energy codes</header>
<subsection id="idBBF077454CEA488B929CFD950DF7CF05">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>The Secretary shall support the updating of model
building energy codes.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id0C7857A9E61F447796F2A0821FC3A1B0">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Targets</header>
<paragraph id="idE43409F8521A4129BF893B1E621F7773">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>The Secretary shall support the updating of the model
building energy codes to enable the achievement of aggregate energy
savings
targets established under paragraph (2).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id63C291A19FA14A59B3EA102FFBEB1F7F">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Targets</header>
<subparagraph id="id508D5DE47C984B8BA92CA02BC2463A5F">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>The Secretary shall work with State, Indian tribes, local
governments, nationally recognized code and standards developers,
and other
interested parties to support the updating of model building energy
codes by
establishing one or more aggregate energy savings targets to
achieve the
purposes of this section.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idA32E86E2E87340DCAC5F1C63F70CCD44">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Separate
targets</header>
<text>The Secretary may establish separate targets for
commercial and residential buildings.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id901C4C8874144BC298158BD4A38ABAB1">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<header>Baselines</header>
<text>The
baseline for updating model building energy codes shall be the 2009
IECC for
residential buildings and ASHRAE Standard 90.1–2010 for commercial
buildings.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id53FABAD9C01B48528A6D93E5645F4092">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<header>Specific
years</header>
<clause id="idB7FB450E496E451998459DAD5E1B7A48">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>Targets for specific years shall be established and
revised by the Secretary through rulemaking and coordinated with
nationally
recognized code and standards developers at a level that—</text>
<subclause id="idF21285C75B654E8DB9842776967E3DBB">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>is at the maximum
level of energy efficiency that is technologically feasible and
life-cycle cost
effective, while accounting for the economic considerations under
paragraph
(4);</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id2100B432CBED445BAA47CE71710AA794">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>is higher than
the preceding target; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id299CC28511B14D0BAB8F54CC83D4B6B6">
<enum>(III)</enum>
<text>promotes the
achievement of commercial and residential high-performance
buildings through
high performance energy efficiency (within the meaning of section
401 of the
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17061)).</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="idBFEEB0FC7B5F4D44A123E7F220A4A761">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<header>Initial
targets</header>
<text>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this
clause, the Secretary shall establish initial targets under this
subparagraph.</text>
</clause><clause id="idAE235062BD5248AEB147DE43820742C1">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<header>Different
target years</header>
<text>Subject to clause (i), prior to the applicable year,
the Secretary may set a later target year for any of the model
building energy
codes described in subparagraph (A) if the Secretary determines
that a target
cannot be met.</text>
</clause><clause id="idF65B5646B6F64A5BB192CC5D806BE1A1">
<enum>(iv)</enum>
<header>Small
business</header>
<text>When establishing targets under this paragraph through
rulemaking, the Secretary shall ensure compliance with the Small
Business
Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (5 U.S.C. 601 note;
Public Law
104–121).</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idD98AB64C39C14D528EBCAD8EC9647E2A">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Appliance
standards and other factors affecting building energy use</header>
<text>In
establishing building code targets under paragraph (2), the
Secretary shall
develop and adjust the targets in recognition of potential savings
and costs
relating to—</text>
<subparagraph id="idCB6B600A1C5D4144B64D49146F791A68">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>efficiency gains
made in appliances, lighting, windows, insulation, and building
envelope
sealing;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE82C8858B38F4E0DB987E134F111A22E">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>advancement of
distributed generation and on-site renewable power generation
technologies;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id3E339C3287824D6D82897774D0707778">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>equipment
improvements for heating, cooling, and ventilation systems;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id3A4F4E8963F745168B2C6FE3CEE21709">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text>building
management systems and SmartGrid technologies to reduce energy use;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id84545A3876694D5A8AE5D9B3348DAED4">
<enum>(E)</enum>
<text>other
technologies, practices, and building systems that the Secretary
considers
appropriate regarding building plug load and other energy uses.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id402CBD5D53114552858B712759F6E45E">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Economic
considerations</header>
<text>In establishing and revising building code targets
under paragraph (2), the Secretary shall consider the economic
feasibility of
achieving the proposed targets established under this section and
the potential
costs and savings for consumers and building owners, including a
return on
investment analysis.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id2701C1D4C3E84C6FB816C140AD87312B">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Technical
assistance to model building energy code-Setting and standard
development
organizations</header>
<paragraph id="idF6DF9FA00CD34B0098D516D62DB33991">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>The Secretary shall, on a timely basis, provide technical
assistance to model building energy code-setting and standard
development
organizations consistent with the goals of this section.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id06D03561DBFC45988C2B5D295298AE97">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Assistance</header>
<text>The
assistance shall include, as requested by the organizations,
technical
assistance in—</text>
<subparagraph id="id4F86E06C692443A895B18DAFD4E0B200">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>evaluating code
or standards proposals or revisions;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idECFB7B36786F4A7F8542F2B39B1D5A95">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>building energy
analysis and design tools;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id8240ED36C9234B12AE018744D7934D41">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>building
demonstrations;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9B207E3F38B14E02A7223C29B7787447">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text>developing
definitions of energy use intensity and building types for use in
model
building energy codes to evaluate the efficiency impacts of the
model building
energy codes;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id42E59D632FA04CC29348D427015A7264">
<enum>(E)</enum>
<text>performance-based
standards;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE6C45D4D14E94AF0A8FE92908A083753">
<enum>(F)</enum>
<text>evaluating
economic considerations under subsection (b)(4); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idBCD04CB223F5486CB4262CBCD98AF217">
<enum>(G)</enum>
<text>developing model
building energy codes by Indian tribes in accordance with tribal
law.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id440DED5DEDA240048DA64493E4820DF5">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Amendment
proposals</header>
<text>The Secretary may submit timely model building energy
code amendment proposals to the model building energy code-setting
and standard
development organizations, with supporting evidence, sufficient to
enable the
model building energy codes to meet the targets established under
subsection
(b)(2).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id1240009E9EBC4B78A837C996E7464E94">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Analysis
methodology</header>
<text>The Secretary shall make publicly available the
entire calculation methodology (including input assumptions and
data) used by
the Secretary to estimate the energy savings of code or standard
proposals and
revisions.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idEF72E22999574B40A294BAF77C4A5D91">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header>Determination</header>
<paragraph id="id10F6963D4CF74CA6911EC7C1BEFFC3D0">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Revision of
model building energy codes</header>
<text>If the provisions of the IECC or
ASHRAE Standard 90.1 regarding building energy use are revised, the
Secretary
shall make a preliminary determination not later than 90 days after
the date of
the revision, and a final determination not later than 15 months
after the date
of the revision, on whether or not the revision will—</text>
<subparagraph id="id6A0C07B08CDC45BC8E595BA91916C561">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>improve energy
efficiency in buildings compared to the existing model building
energy code;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idA8FB9196221A4A65ABF9F8EDE52FDD48">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>meet the
applicable targets under subsection (b)(2).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id5748C5314DCF4438AD7838A24881A560">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Codes or
standards not meeting targets</header>
<subparagraph id="idB85EED00F7174CEAAAE8BAD0E9B4CE2E">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>If the Secretary makes a preliminary determination under
paragraph (1)(B) that a code or standard does not meet the targets
established
under subsection (b)(2), the Secretary may at the same time provide
the model
building energy code or standard developer with proposed changes
that would
result in a model building energy code that meets the targets and
with
supporting evidence, taking into consideration—</text>
<clause id="id35E646C723EC496782A1133B6B5F94C5">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>whether the
modified code is technically feasible and life-cycle cost
effective;</text>
</clause><clause id="id82D8C59527874DD4ACBF68DBC86F46EC">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>available
appliances, technologies, materials, and construction practices;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="idD5ED2FD85E4C479CB33E39372705288F">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>the economic
considerations under subsection (b)(4).</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE8AEC775E2864BD8AD5A9EE72AF39CF7">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Incorporation
of changes</header>
<clause id="idDE242431FCF441A6ACD653244D0C5C84">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>On receipt of the proposed changes, the model building
energy code or standard developer shall have an additional 270 days
to accept
or reject the proposed changes of the Secretary to the model
building energy
code or standard for the Secretary to make a final determination.</text>
</clause><clause id="id72079CF4FEF04A3785FD47171EC0C408">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<header>Final
determination</header>
<text>A final determination under paragraph (1) shall be
on the modified model building energy code or standard.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id2084436F8B8746E69787701C8AB533B4">
<enum>(e)</enum>
<header>Administration</header>
<text>In
carrying out this section, the Secretary shall—</text>
<paragraph id="idFA0BF9125B7742A297BE0C9EBB738498">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>publish notice of
targets and supporting analysis and determinations under this
section in the
Federal Register to provide an explanation of and the basis for
such actions,
including any supporting modeling, data, assumptions, protocols,
and
cost-benefit analysis, including return on investment; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id44A35EC04EDB48EF9E8DA048B6061970">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>provide an
opportunity for public comment on targets and supporting analysis
and
determinations under this section.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID4e898f1e42f745409f41322a046861bd">
<enum>(f)</enum>
<header>Voluntary codes
and standards</header>
<text>Notwithstanding any other provision of this
section, any model building code or standard established under
section 304
shall not be binding on a State, local government, or Indian tribe
as a matter
of Federal
law.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="iddf84b1a1-e789-4d23-9bbe-adb8b9411ac4">
<enum>B</enum>
<header>Worker
training and capacity building</header>
<section id="id3ba2aedb-d2a9-4d4c-a2d1-3ba8b31df5b0">
<enum>111.</enum>
<header>Building
training and assessment centers</header>
<subsection id="idb6415abc-f835-4356-8467-0928026d13a4">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall
provide grants to institutions of higher education (as defined in section
101
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001)) and Tribal Colleges
or
Universities (as defined in section 316(b) of that Act (20 U.S.C.
1059c(b))) to
establish building training and assessment centers—</text>
<paragraph id="id5ec17e14-e4c3-4106-8222-815936a2535b">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>to identify
opportunities for optimizing energy efficiency and environmental
performance in
buildings;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id2feb47a0-3d77-42ea-9e0b-7273ffca0a16">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>to promote
the application of emerging concepts and technologies in commercial and
institutional buildings;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idc27ced1c-5f70-42eb-8340-5e1c38de8d6e">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text>to train
engineers, architects, building scientists, building energy permitting and
enforcement officials, and building technicians in energy-efficient design
and
operation;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id0a9d8bbf-28a1-44c8-b4a0-3dc2bc0e148c">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<text>to assist
institutions of higher education and Tribal Colleges or Universities in
training building technicians;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ida186eae1-3d5b-4d85-a671-4677c371cfeb">
<enum>(5)</enum>
<text>to promote
research and development for the use of alternative energy sources and
distributed generation to supply heat and power for buildings,
particularly
energy-intensive buildings; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idc7649866-1e46-488e-b6fb-5e6607ad9a7f">
<enum>(6)</enum>
<text>to coordinate
with and assist State-accredited technical training centers, community
colleges, Tribal Colleges or Universities, and local offices of the
National
Institute of Food and Agriculture and ensure appropriate services are
provided
under this section to each region of the United States.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id204e2a9c-6270-4d9f-9590-aa9f8e3d1bbe">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Coordination
and nonduplication</header>
<paragraph id="id11a888c5-bdda-439a-ac96-d4e57e431ca5">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>The Secretary shall coordinate the program with the
industrial research and assessment centers program and with other Federal
programs to avoid duplication of effort.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id965cb0c9-75f1-4a42-b5c5-1436fb0a30fd">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Collocation</header>
<text>To
the maximum extent practicable, building, training, and assessment centers
established under this section shall be collocated with Industrial
Assessment
Centers.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idA63121F8EFB84F7C95406B469D3EE271">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Authorization
of Appropriations</header>
<text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry
out this section $10,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="id48258ef4e96949b1a48877ef56fb8fe0">
<enum>112.</enum>
<header>Career skills
training</header>
<subsection id="id20fe237ff1b44f5aba4fc75a4d9462ab">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>The Secretary shall pay grants to eligible entities
described in subsection (b) to pay the Federal share of associated career
skills training programs under which students concurrently receive
classroom
instruction and on-the-job training for the purpose of obtaining an
industry-related certification to install energy efficient buildings
technologies, including technologies described in section 307(b)(3) of the
Energy Conservation and Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6836(b)(3)).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idb3f92ce9c18a475387d9ec90a760c2d5">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Eligibility</header>
<text>To
be eligible to obtain a grant under subsection (a), an entity shall be a
nonprofit partnership described in section 171(e)(2)(B)(ii) of the
Workforce
Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2916(e)(2)(B)(ii)).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id20a81e2a315b433cb986ab3944344067">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Federal
share</header>
<text>The Federal share of the cost of carrying out a career
skills training program described in subsection (a) shall be 50 percent.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id4CC964EDAF1041B09FD2102BB7189056">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header>Authorization
of Appropriations</header>
<text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry
out this section $10,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="id72390F61B669456D84EB4BDEFEFAB21D">
<enum>C</enum>
<header>School
buildings</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9CBA21E4EA494695A8F7EFC262C1E3FA" section-type="subsequent-section">
<enum>121.</enum>
<header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coordination of energy retrofitting
assistance for schools</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA25E77DE6BB54B32AA6180945D584FB3">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of school</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the term
<term>school</term> means—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDed75340b641546a1a601210a9590a805">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an elementary school or secondary school
(as defined in section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801));</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID730ceb9c31054d918fd3ffbf58a08f1c">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an institution of higher education (as
defined in section 102(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
1002(a));</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf632bc7d88cc4422b11bcb4a49cbed9f">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a school of the defense dependents’
education system under the Defense Dependents’ Education Act of 1978 (20 U.S.C.
921 et seq.) or established under section 2164 of title 10, United States
Code;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9e32294e98e14b21981909f128332b8f">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a school operated by the Bureau of Indian
Affairs;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8facc23be8aa4418b117127983990a74">
<enum>(5)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a tribally controlled school (as defined in
section 5212 of the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2511));
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa2cb354874e94928af5aaa5cdca206b9">
<enum>(6)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a Tribal College or University (as defined
in section 316(b) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
1059c(b))).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFD42755727054ED594C7D57C7C4AAC91">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Designation of lead agency</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary, acting through the Office of
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, shall act as the lead Federal agency
for coordinating and disseminating information on existing Federal programs and
assistance that may be used to help initiate, develop, and finance energy
efficiency, renewable energy, and energy retrofitting projects for
schools.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0213B396825C420E815D40D07F92FE27">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirements</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out coordination and outreach
under subsection (b), the Secretary shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe01eea877acf45acb6ba0b64519ab953">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in consultation and coordination with the
appropriate Federal agencies, carry out a review of existing programs and
financing mechanisms (including revolving loan funds and loan guarantees)
available in or from the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Energy,
the Department of Education, the Department of the Treasury, the Internal
Revenue Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other appropriate
Federal agencies with jurisdiction over energy financing and facilitation that
are currently used or may be used to help initiate, develop, and finance energy
efficiency, renewable energy, and energy retrofitting projects for
schools;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDebdc018538a64cfda953627272ceb6bb">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">establish a Federal cross-departmental
collaborative coordination, education, and outreach effort to streamline
communication and promote available Federal opportunities and assistance
described in paragraph (1), for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy
retrofitting projects that enables States, local educational agencies, and
schools—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1237213AEAA84260A71C96B51C11306E">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to use existing Federal opportunities more
effectively; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6E9BC01C0321445CADB791FBBE849046">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to form partnerships with Governors, State
energy programs, local educational, financial, and energy officials, State and
local government officials, nonprofit organizations, and other appropriate
entities, to support the initiation of the projects;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2c4f260766d04b20b9f0be18667decea">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide technical assistance for States,
local educational agencies, and schools to help develop and finance energy
efficiency, renewable energy, and energy retrofitting projects—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd164fd7df3334adc8ceab583776ee6a6">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to increase the energy efficiency of
buildings or facilities;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID89aec68a53fc44e0a156e14d3f003458">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to install systems that individually
generate energy from renewable energy resources;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf8b062be9d724035bc3fca91d4f73368">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to establish partnerships to leverage
economies of scale and additional financing mechanisms available to larger
clean energy initiatives; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id58924BFD1E764456895D95F7957C7D6D">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to promote—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id28DD5117898C4D3A8E2ED4CC861AF851">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the maintenance of health, environmental
quality, and safety in schools, including the ambient air quality, through
energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy retrofit projects; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7FA3E50CBF0E4C238430EBDF72378E9E">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the achievement of expected energy savings
and renewable energy production through proper operations and maintenance
practices;</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4e9ebb3fe5e543de8d37aba35ac8b2e6">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">develop and maintain a single online
resource Web site with contact information for relevant technical assistance
and support staff in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for
States, local educational agencies, and schools to effectively access and use
Federal opportunities and assistance described in paragraph (1) to develop
energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy retrofitting projects;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID49617e43e8004c1d9f290c19012a3f7c">
<enum>(5)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">establish a process for recognition of
schools that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7bbbb37084fc4abbb8e3d654b5e4b4e3">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">have successfully implemented energy
efficiency, renewable energy, and energy retrofitting projects; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID928d15212a58425b86b65a52c136ca83">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are willing to serve as resources for other
local educational agencies and schools to assist initiation of similar
efforts.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf040d9ad6d6a4d479683ebac3f7815bb">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report
describing the implementation of this section.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="id80ED3FF710B04C0586136827FA5945D0" style="OLC">
<enum>D</enum>
<header>Better buildings</header>
<section id="H9E51E4E18FF34270A9AF3DB868776219">
<enum>131.</enum>
<header>Energy efficiency in Federal and other buildings</header>
<subsection id="HE39DF3B25F48422191D40038BFC48C0B">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Definitions</header>
<text>In this section:</text>
<paragraph id="H6A8931E002234A5E8DE4EEA62362364C">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Administrator</header>
<text>The term <term>Administrator</term> means the Administrator of General Services.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H059AC80FAC89432DB785897447216392">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Cost-effective energy efficiency measure</header>
<text>The terms <term>cost-effective energy efficiency measure</term> and <term>measure</term> mean any building product, material, equipment, or service and the installing, implementing, or
operating thereof, that provides energy savings in an amount that is not
less than the cost of such installing, implementing, or operating.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H66EF45BA43544293A3F1258B90E920A5">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Model provisions, policies, and best practices</header>
<paragraph id="H25CDB540AF894411BF4B1BF99F7AFEB9">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In general</header>
<text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator, in consultation
with the Secretary and after providing the public with an
opportunity for notice and comment, shall develop model leasing provisions
and best practices in accordance with this subsection.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0A054A0A4E6341F8BC34720DC6C26CF4">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Commercial leasing</header>
<subparagraph id="HB2F92CEF766E48009B73E0C096B0A2D4">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>In general</header>
<text>The model commercial leasing provisions developed under this subsection shall, at a minimum, align
the interests of building owners and tenants with regard to investments in
cost-effective energy efficiency measures to encourage building owners and
tenants to collaborate to invest in such measures.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5FCF5F782B3C4052B61CB202E99FD832">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Use of model provisions</header>
<text>The Administrator may use the model provisions developed under this subsection in any standard
leasing document that designates a Federal agency (or other client of the
Administrator) as a landlord or tenant.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H19A4DFC51DF9438A8F2661D942E0A3C8">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<header>Publication</header>
<text>The Administrator shall periodically publish the model leasing provisions developed under this
subsection, along with explanatory materials, to encourage building owners
and tenants in the private sector to use such provisions and materials.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HDCF9E66480EA4C6194FA5BE01397398C">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Realty services</header>
<text>The Administrator shall develop policies and practices to implement cost-effective energy
efficiency measures for the realty services provided by the Administrator
to Federal agencies (or other clients of the Administrator), including
periodic training of appropriate Federal employees and contractors on how
to identify and evaluate those measures.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7C91C637FB3D4FB2BF67025427796439">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>State and local assistance</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary, shall make available model leasing
provisions and best practices developed under this subsection to State,
county, and municipal governments to manage owned and leased building
space in accordance with the goal of encouraging investment in all
cost-effective energy efficiency measures.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HED3159022154445E8EDA981830214354">
<enum>132.</enum>
<header>Separate spaces with high-performance energy efficiency measures</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subtitle B of title IV of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17081 et
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HBE69E2E6E74E4E69810D731442956EC5" style="OLC">
<section id="HF6B8A35AF0AE4C149477B5BB230AD1AF">
<enum>424.</enum>
<header>Separate spaces with high-performance energy efficiency measures</header>
<subsection id="HDF3BF71EEBDF496AAD715FE9C76CB3F2">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Definitions</header>
<text>In this section:</text>
<paragraph id="H6F30107E53234934822281114E06FBDC">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>High-performance energy efficiency measure</header>
<text>The term <term>high-performance energy efficiency measure</term> means a technology, product, or practice that will result in substantial operational cost savings
by reducing energy consumption and utility costs.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HDBFD7C2DC22041FB8B36D785BD838633">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Separate spaces</header>
<text>The term <term>separate spaces</term> means areas within a commercial building that are leased or otherwise occupied by a tenant or
other occupant for a period of time pursuant to the terms of a written
agreement.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H6F495EF72D0E4F1185D82EDE11D9D888">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Study</header>
<paragraph id="HEB574C1373F84B71993739FB082E9401">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In general</header>
<text>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary, acting through
the Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, shall
complete a study on the feasibility of—</text>
<subparagraph id="HAC1450B95B0D41CDA6DB4C8AB0ADAA13">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>significantly improving energy efficiency in commercial buildings through the design and
construction, by owners and tenants, of separate spaces with
high-performance energy efficiency measures; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE4114E14B4C249AF9E1E605799A62ABD">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>encouraging owners and tenants to implement high-performance energy efficiency measures in separate
spaces.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HE4ED4D2B753C4CF99410683CC8F70D75">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Scope</header>
<text>The study shall, at a minimum, include—</text>
<subparagraph id="H321ADBDFB6014EC889D754DC9C9CC59F">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>descriptions of—</text>
<clause id="H286DEEDFC9AF49639FECD27DFA0404E2">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>high-performance energy efficiency measures that should be considered as part of the initial design
and construction of separate spaces;</text>
</clause><clause id="H81187C0ADCAD452293538014D75CCD36">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>processes that owners, tenants, architects, and engineers may replicate when designing and
constructing separate spaces with high-performance energy efficiency
measures;</text>
</clause><clause id="H3D11AE703C8648C480295E1009D4783D">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>policies and best practices to achieve reductions in energy intensities for lighting, plug loads,
heating, cooling, cooking, laundry, and other systems to satisfy the needs
of the commercial building tenant;</text>
</clause><clause id="HCAF0B33697924948A391F286E588CBEA">
<enum>(iv)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">return on investment and payback analyses of the incremental cost and projected energy savings of
the proposed set of high-performance energy efficiency measures, including
consideration of available incentives;</text>
</clause><clause id="H2957125A5861408895CD8D9E9B429335">
<enum>(v)</enum>
<text>models and simulation methods that predict the quantity of energy used by separate spaces with
high-performance energy efficiency measures and that compare that
predicted quantity to the quantity of energy used by separate spaces
without high-performance energy efficiency measures but that otherwise
comply with applicable building code requirements;</text>
</clause><clause id="H46B2FF7E7C644D3696794BD5FD6324E7">
<enum>(vi)</enum>
<text>measurement and verification platforms demonstrating actual energy use of high-performance energy
efficiency measures installed in separate spaces, and whether such
measures generate the savings intended in the initial design and
construction of the separate spaces;</text>
</clause><clause id="H6212EF13EA2545249F14BA6786E608CA">
<enum>(vii)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">best practices that encourage an integrated approach to designing and constructing separate spaces
to perform at optimum energy efficiency in conjunction with the central
systems of a commercial building; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H76D585F5F14D49C7BD4B2DA942EDE41C">
<enum>(viii)</enum>
<text>any impact on employment resulting from the design and construction of separate spaces with
high-performance energy efficiency measures; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H697205E7609249BBA1676D5796AE57A1">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>case studies reporting economic and energy saving returns in the design and construction of
separate spaces with high-performance energy efficiency measures.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H6D91CD9669174DF4A7C7F877532850DE">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Public participation</header>
<text>Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary shall publish
a notice in the Federal Register requesting public comments regarding
effective methods, measures, and practices for the design and construction
of separate spaces with high-performance energy efficiency measures.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2E07EC327A5144DA88ADB7DA2A598493">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Publication</header>
<text>The Secretary shall publish the study on the website of the Department of Energy.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="HA6C64FBCDCBC46ACBB23CDC509AE7838">
<enum>133.</enum>
<header>Tenant star program</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subtitle B of title IV of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17081 et
seq.) (as amended by section 132) is amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H14059263B94C497CBFE637173B934128" style="OLC">
<section id="H4D9C2D19199E4D5D99BF3CC659E28B54">
<enum>425.</enum>
<header>Tenant star program</header>
<subsection id="HC237CB6AA2204B3FBA99DA7EBEC3583F">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Definitions</header>
<text>In this section:</text>
<paragraph id="H55182E13D199495FA26059696393A994">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>High-performance energy efficiency measure</header>
<text>The term <term>high-performance energy efficiency measure</term> has the meaning given the term in section 424.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H895D2A41C9794F48A0B98E9F0E78B1BA">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Separate spaces</header>
<text>The term <term>separate spaces</term> has the meaning given the term in section 424.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H8FCB4158E1D74A558C6C249B4AE881BA">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Tenant Star</header>
<text>The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation with the Secretary of
Energy, shall develop a voluntary program within the Energy Star program
established by section 324A of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42
U.S.C. 6294a), which may be known as Tenant Star, to promote energy
efficiency in separate spaces leased by tenants or otherwise occupied
within commercial buildings.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HFE44A42459BC41D481B50FB35F90BEA8">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Expanding survey data</header>
<text>The Secretary of Energy, acting through the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration,
shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H553C042931DD4C0595C6B90B770D0DD0">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>collect, through each Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey of the Energy Information
Administration that is conducted after the date of enactment of this
section, data on—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H7C54FBD5C96049AEB0E121C1D83B7B52">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>categories of building occupancy that are known to consume significant quantities of energy, such
as occupancy by data centers, trading floors, and restaurants; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HD2E63FEE1BD947C098E7FA78B5FA4927">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">other aspects of the property, building operation, or building occupancy determined by the
Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, in consultation
with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to be
relevant in lowering energy consumption;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H559548C55A594F15BAEC15782ED5E7C7">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">with respect to the first Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey conducted after the date
of enactment of this section, to the extent full compliance with the
requirements of paragraph (1) is not feasible, conduct activities to
develop the capability to collect such data and begin to collect such
data; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H93A97C99B206447E93427359AE2E4E35">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">make data collected under paragraphs (1) and (2) available to the public in aggregated form and
provide such data, and any associated results, to the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency for use in accordance with subsection (d).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7C555FF362F2462A8110EE3A49D4667A">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header> Recognition of owners and tenants</header>
<paragraph id="HBF4E3F7DF68D4695B71536F9B5F568F7">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Occupancy-based recognition</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date on which sufficient data is received pursuant to subsection
(c), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall,
following an opportunity for public notice and comment—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HA95EAF9737CE459CB22AC1CA96849451">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in a manner similar to the Energy Star rating system for commercial buildings, develop policies and
procedures to recognize tenants in commercial buildings that voluntarily
achieve high levels of energy efficiency in separate spaces;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H86917F971CA646D7BF044B13383C913C">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">establish building occupancy categories eligible for Tenant Star recognition based on the data
collected under subsection (c) and any other appropriate data sources; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H847AE7654CC34176A9FD4D9A7BF8E384">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>consider other forms of recognition for commercial building tenants or other occupants that lower
energy consumption in separate spaces.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H3B4DCB3359624E8FBCADCF8CC68E5767">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Design- and construction-based recognition</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">After the study required by section 424(b) is completed, the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency, in consultation with the Secretary and following an
opportunity for public notice and comment, may develop a voluntary program
to recognize commercial building owners and tenants that use
high-performance energy efficiency measures in the design and construction
of separate spaces.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section></subtitle><subtitle id="id56EC59427DD54BC88D50B0BC89EF96F6">
<enum>E</enum>
<header>Energy
information for commercial buildings</header>
<section id="id59AF53DA27FC4AEAB44C942DB4D547A3">
<enum>141.</enum>
<header>Energy
information for commercial buildings</header>
<subsection id="id8CF543B021EC41ABA1DE3F672B0B40E0">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Requirement of
benchmarking and disclosure for leasing buildings without energy star
labels</header>
<text>Section 435(b)(2) of the Energy Independence and Security
Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17091(b)(2)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idEE6B387116944BD281EFAC485CE6C08A">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>by
striking <quote>paragraph (2)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph
(1)</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idD975934986C3400DA639E6741F8AF659">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by
striking <quote>signing the contract,</quote> and all that follows through the
period at the end and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB820E4D47FC2418EA6C0A105A4CF5F62" style="OLC">
<quoted-block-continuation-text quoted-block-continuation-text-level="paragraph">signing the
contract, the following requirements are met:</quoted-block-continuation-text><subparagraph id="id0275D57EA38744E68169979E606A7D1A">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>The space is
renovated for all energy efficiency and conservation improvements that would be
cost effective over the life of the lease, including improvements in lighting,
windows, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id072A7B8543B3489F8E77EFA83FC4913B">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id1FBBEEA7EC024FBA84AB01BEE0023616"><enum>(i)</enum>
<text>Subject to clause (ii),
the space is benchmarked under a nationally recognized, online, free
benchmarking program, with public disclosure, unless the space is a space for
which owners cannot access whole building utility consumption data, including
spaces—</text>
<subclause id="idEB29F118B1ED4B16A2FC0CF733D6DBFE" indent="up1">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>that are located in States with privacy
laws that provide that utilities shall not provide such aggregated information
to multitenant building owners; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id296ED7B4532441439362D76C0F2BC895" indent="up1">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>for which tenants do not provide energy
consumption information to the commercial building owner in response to a
request from the building owner.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="id3E51F43F8B324C5994162BCB0E268970" indent="up1">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>A Federal agency that is a tenant
of the space shall provide to the building owner, or authorize the owner to
obtain from the utility, the energy consumption information of the space for
the benchmarking and disclosure required by this
subparagraph.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idE09AF9F2EF874A25AC29810831535BDF">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Department of
Energy study</header>
<paragraph id="idD7AA098908E74C8DA3C5885880D61C38">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of
this Act, the Secretary shall complete a study, with opportunity for public
comment—</text>
<subparagraph id="id9054CB2CF5C841C38D9A2B848439A849">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>on the impact
of—</text>
<clause id="idB48490180F794F0C9ED4BF15FB723E04">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>State
and local performance benchmarking and disclosure policies, and any associated
building efficiency policies, for commercial and multifamily buildings;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="id8530E94D783B4182BAA13AD2063D1050">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>programs and
systems in which utilities provide aggregated information regarding whole
building energy consumption and usage information to owners of multitenant
commercial, residential, and mixed-use buildings;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id7A2E7305A2604C67AD1014C6620FB28C">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>that identifies
best practice policy approaches studied under subparagraph (A) that have
resulted in the greatest improvements in building energy efficiency; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id43CA73CD6200453F864A83C0E0ADEAA3">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>that
considers—</text>
<clause id="idf9644570418c4cd69cab13101ed089d9">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>compliance rates
and the benefits and costs of the policies and programs on building owners,
utilities, tenants, and other parties;</text>
</clause><clause id="id5255704c7fde4a01a9745d65226255e9">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>utility
practices, programs, and systems that provide aggregated energy consumption
information to multitenant building owners, and the impact of public utility
commissions and State privacy laws on those practices, programs, and
systems;</text>
</clause><clause id="id65b034aff374422eb5e8e97081dacfcb">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>exceptions to
compliance in existing laws where building owners are not able to gather or
access whole building energy information from tenants or utilities;</text>
</clause><clause id="iddc81bfce17f04b249292887bfbc131ff">
<enum>(iv)</enum>
<text>the
treatment of buildings with—</text>
<subclause id="id31A62F8CFCEE4654969B469DA5B579F4">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>multiple
uses;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id6F7DE2C0DF854431A0D5742837CC3CA1">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>uses for which
baseline information is not available; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="idA0ABFBAC34C74D56A1015080B026D1C0">
<enum>(III)</enum>
<text>uses that
require high levels of energy intensities, such as data centers, trading
floors, and televisions studios;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="iddcf16160562f4ba2a13e41cef56cca55">
<enum>(v)</enum>
<text>implementation
practices, including disclosure methods and phase-in of compliance;</text>
</clause><clause id="id0233e4ddbe2d41d9883900fa5033747e">
<enum>(vi)</enum>
<text>the
safety and security of benchmarking tools offered by government agencies, and
the resiliency of those tools against cyber-attacks; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id2fd1002bd35d4452b34d1ec212b59410">
<enum>(vii)</enum>
<text>international
experiences with regard to building benchmarking and disclosure laws and data
aggregation for multitenant buildings.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id7F7A9C8E02EB4114B01F724DF9097AD5">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Submission to
Congress</header>
<text>At the conclusion of the study, the Secretary shall
submit to Congress a report on the results of the study.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id6152e03880e942179c162ce66e63efaf">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Creation and
maintenance of databases</header>
<paragraph id="idE2A7B727657E41728B306E17EDD407AD">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of
this Act and following opportunity for public notice and comment, the
Secretary, in coordination with other relevant agencies shall, to carry out the
purpose described in paragraph (2)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idB7314EF9941D4962B2C3C89F8A7B2E07">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>assess existing
databases; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idDDA7BD4C76A14ADB96C7E7264707D6F2">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>as
necessary—</text>
<clause id="id20592417D88D49A2AC7D8D4F6AD6DEBC">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>modify
and maintain existing databases; or</text>
</clause><clause id="id281105F01327418A98169E35E650A688">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>create
and maintain a new database platform.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id7a4bd747cff5468fa313bb862b6a242c">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Purpose</header>
<text>The
maintenance of existing databases or creation of a new database platform under
paragraph (1) shall be for the purpose of storing and making available public
energy-related information on commercial and multifamily buildings,
including—</text>
<subparagraph id="id742B723B94A1446688763C427A7C19AC">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>data provided
under Federal, State, local, and other laws or programs regarding building
benchmarking and energy information disclosure;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9d3739815ee54684a916d6d80e9331ce">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>buildings that
have received energy ratings and certifications; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id687a9a14158841b7a0b1645e0c238f1b">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>energy-related
information on buildings provided voluntarily by the owners of the buildings,
in an anonymous form, unless the owner provides otherwise.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id0BE698A0D06549E2828744DBD563B1B7">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header>Competitive
awards</header>
<text>Based on the results of the research for the portion of
the study described in subsection (b)(1)(A)(ii), and with criteria developed
following public notice and comment, the Secretary may make competitive awards
to utilities, utility regulators, and utility partners to develop and implement
effective and promising programs to provide aggregated whole building energy
consumption information to multitenant building owners.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id07CCA4D217194FE893A3489B85F6AA69">
<enum>(e)</enum>
<header>Input from
stakeholders</header>
<text>The Secretary shall seek input from stakeholders to
maximize the effectiveness of the actions taken under this section.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idBBAE6881D9144EEFBCB25280FB7F0C57">
<enum>(f)</enum>
<header>Report</header>
<text>Not
later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and every 2 years
thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on the progress
made in complying with this section.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idAFA02FFB0F52488AAF1D899403BC9DE6">
<enum>(g)</enum>
<header>Authorization
of appropriations</header>
<text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry
out subsection (b) $2,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018, to
remain available until expended.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle>
<enum>II</enum>
<header>Industrial
efficiency and competitiveness</header>
<subtitle id="id57e316b3-d2a8-4c43-af81-bec3d5d63a83">
<enum>A</enum>
<header>Manufacturing
energy efficiency</header>
<section id="id6c24d200f4f549699273baa5611dd335">
<enum>201.</enum>
<header>Purposes</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">The purposes of this subtitle are—</text>
<paragraph id="id4aa74617d9e242cbb8e8d483bd30ad63">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>to reform and
reorient the industrial efficiency programs of the Department of Energy;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id5f33910300ad4ba9807503530b3bd557">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>to establish a
clear and consistent authority for industrial efficiency programs of the
Department;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id513d6edb0d1a4918989a46cdae1da640">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text>to accelerate the
deployment of technologies and practices that will increase industrial
energy
efficiency and improve productivity;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id4a1d6efc35784ccfb7f4472505c35cac">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<text>to accelerate the
development and demonstration of technologies that will assist the
deployment
goals of the industrial efficiency programs of the Department and increase
manufacturing efficiency;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id9d6d7f009f354ffa9075f62d418d3964">
<enum>(5)</enum>
<text>to stimulate
domestic economic growth and improve industrial productivity and
competitiveness; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id256e652ab8b043cbbe52561c1ff0ebe6">
<enum>(6)</enum>
<text>to strengthen
partnerships between Federal and State governmental agencies and the
private
and academic sectors.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="id2CC6D45B448F416D8EAAF3ECFE0719E0">
<enum>202.</enum>
<header>Future of
Industry program</header>
<subsection id="idC1AC40BCB32B4FFB90B81E2678A8FF35">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 452 of the
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17111) is amended
by
striking the section heading and inserting the following:
<quote><header-in-text level="section" style="OLC">Future of Industry
program</header-in-text></quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id4F4E6126302043D89BE2D8CE8C6BB34F">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Definition of
energy service provider</header>
<text>Section 452(a) of the Energy Independence
and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17111(a)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id36E00D3704A345F0958ACBFF7F578AD2">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>by redesignating
paragraphs (3) through (5) as paragraphs (4) through (6), respectively;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idA85D303F5C4D47B296236390D057B7EF">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by inserting
after paragraph (2):</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8A70A0C9DC20469E95084AF93FD32608" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="idB781417E9749433094D0817489C8E2F6">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Energy service
provider</header>
<text>The term <term>energy service provider</term> means any
business providing technology or services to improve the energy
efficiency,
power factor, or load management of a manufacturing site or other
industrial
process in an energy-intensive industry, or any utility operating
under a
utility energy service
project.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id4484CDF908474556BE653800D5925721">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Industrial
research and assessment centers</header>
<text>Section 452(e) of the Energy
Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17111(e)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id9944DBAE868D421CBA9728FD92740AD3">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>by redesignating
paragraphs (1) through (5) as subparagraphs (A) through (E), respectively,
and
indenting appropriately;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id23582C76811440E69E1C5427829C021D">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by striking
<quote>The Secretary</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id81100F7CB476460AA08FF44E7324BF9F" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id90C3EA8EDE964CD1BD34DD657D7207B3">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>The
Secretary</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id5EB39CBF96D2431A8D28CF566FA110FE">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text>in subparagraph
(A) (as redesignated by paragraph (1)), by inserting before the semicolon
at
the end the following: <quote>, including assessments of sustainable
manufacturing goals and the implementation of information technology
advancements for supply chain analysis, logistics, system monitoring,
industrial and manufacturing processes, and other purposes</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idDF7E2A3770AB4D5683948405A9CDB2B7">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id027AC74152FE466B9A413540E983BA24" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="idEE28C077BE864BF78392485EC9EB75E3">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Coordination</header>
<subparagraph id="id7A28439E65A8447D96BED7A3B2303847">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>To increase the value and capabilities of the industrial
research and assessment centers, the centers shall—</text>
<clause id="id793AF6B7B5804A5EB81C9ED1A53CE67A">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>coordinate with
Manufacturing Extension Partnership Centers of the National
Institute of
Standards and Technology;</text>
</clause><clause id="id986D0BAF9A224C3C8EA054BE53A6F4F1">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>coordinate with
the Building Technologies Program of the Department of Energy to
provide
building assessment services to manufacturers;</text>
</clause><clause id="idC93EC2B949054611960C1A3994559EEE">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>increase
partnerships with the National Laboratories of the Department of
Energy to
leverage the expertise and technologies of the National
Laboratories for
national industrial and manufacturing needs;</text>
</clause><clause id="idB490458A1C454DFFB1CDA471F8FD19B4">
<enum>(iv)</enum>
<text>increase
partnerships with energy service providers and technology providers
to leverage
private sector expertise and accelerate deployment of new and
existing
technologies and processes for energy efficiency, power factor, and
load
management;</text>
</clause><clause id="idD39C7DA4431B49B69DF63D55F6EFB28B">
<enum>(v)</enum>
<text>identify
opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions; and</text>
</clause><clause id="idFF20BA8118354D52A54B245E7BED31EB">
<enum>(vi)</enum>
<text>promote
sustainable manufacturing practices for small- and medium-sized
manufacturers.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idACC44B61B5B349C78DF0EFF640756D9B">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Outreach</header>
<text>The
Secretary shall provide funding for—</text>
<subparagraph id="id1DD152EBB6E84E78A817925CF9D26688">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>outreach
activities by the industrial research and assessment centers to
inform small-
and medium-sized manufacturers of the information, technologies,
and services
available; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id0AF37EBCB03B4F079DBF3144355F0A89">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>coordination
activities by each industrial research and assessment center to
leverage
efforts with—</text>
<clause id="id0308AF40289D40419DDF74AA829F5774">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>Federal and State
efforts;</text>
</clause><clause id="id2AE21E4091EB49839C23BD51F5E6E7D2">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>the efforts of
utilities and energy service providers;</text>
</clause><clause id="id60383FAA481C40EFB2737BF827004365">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>the efforts of
regional energy efficiency organizations; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id6D4B4364A38C4B3B8884FA5C4C3CFB35">
<enum>(iv)</enum>
<text>the efforts of
other industrial research and assessment centers.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idBA6695C027F34F23B101CC215136CB00">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Workforce
training</header>
<subparagraph id="id4F22A26797C54A0E9B88CE6215E34731">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>The Secretary shall pay the Federal share of associated
internship programs under which students work with or for
industries,
manufacturers, and energy service providers to implement the
recommendations of
industrial research and assessment centers.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idC59B4F1CD31C4EBA80301DC30A9C33B1">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Federal
share</header>
<text>The Federal share of the cost of carrying out internship
programs described in subparagraph (A) shall be 50 percent.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id342C58AA3E264ED7A3CE82C9BF764329">
<enum>(5)</enum>
<header>Small business
loans</header>
<text>The Administrator of the Small Business Administration
shall, to the maximum extent practicable, expedite consideration of
applications from eligible small business concerns for loans under
the Small
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) to implement recommendations
of industrial
research and assessment centers established under paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idf0b0f9fb0eff41df87754c1d1e982c4c">
<enum>(6)</enum>
<header>Advanced
manufacturing steering committee</header>
<text>The Secretary shall establish an
advisory steering committee to provide recommendations to the
Secretary on
planning and implementation of the Advanced Manufacturing Office of
the
Department of
Energy.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id27bd708a-8057-452a-a326-20b99c74c159">
<enum>203.</enum>
<header>Sustainable
manufacturing initiative</header>
<subsection id="idf77a7751-37fc-4271-b474-16d07cf73976">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Part E of title III
of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6341) is amended by
adding
at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCE1D1AF1B99B4A458D01C457B8F313E6" style="OLC">
<section id="iddbb314a2-36a4-4444-8002-b3307f7e86a8">
<enum>376.</enum>
<header>Sustainable
manufacturing initiative</header>
<subsection id="id68c16781-a5dd-41bd-a25b-a22911463edf">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>As part of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy, the Secretary, on the request of a manufacturer, shall
conduct onsite
technical assessments to identify opportunities for—</text>
<paragraph id="idc8ffd756-75a1-486f-90a5-139f8d0b32ec">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>maximizing
the energy efficiency of industrial processes and cross-cutting
systems;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ida460da8c-5f8c-424e-a345-ac408d5c4b4e">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>preventing
pollution and minimizing waste;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id8e84d7f0-5fae-4715-a8cd-60c229ea807b">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text>improving
efficient use of water in manufacturing processes;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id77ee525d-a878-432e-961a-e3e72b474961">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<text>conserving
natural resources; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idf7d904c3-8052-4a45-8a74-f017ed2f38dd">
<enum>(5)</enum>
<text>achieving
such other goals as the Secretary determines to be appropriate.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idc2f2b24e-9fec-4a22-8655-ae229ad078a2">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Coordination</header>
<text>The
Secretary shall carry out the initiative in coordination with the
private
sector and appropriate agencies, including the National Institute
of Standards
and Technology, to accelerate adoption of new and existing
technologies and
processes that improve energy efficiency.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id04b03943-4c71-4b3d-8aa1-dff0ed8dacfa">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Research
and development program for sustainable manufacturing and
industrial
technologies and processes</header>
<text>As part of the industrial efficiency
programs of the Department of Energy, the Secretary shall carry out
a joint
industry-government partnership program to research, develop, and
demonstrate
new sustainable manufacturing and industrial technologies and
processes that
maximize the energy efficiency of industrial plants, reduce
pollution, and
conserve natural
resources.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="idf0b0d455-1748-4bba-92a8-fd11976e0a10">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Table of
contents</header>
<text>The table of contents of the Energy Policy and
Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. prec. 6201) is amended by adding at the end of
the
items relating to part E of title III the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide12cee33-727a-4708-a65a-53ef0a88d02d" style="OLC">
<toc>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">Sec. 376. Sustainable
manufacturing
initiative.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="id0411b3235ae14175bf67c6ea9d7f4cf6">
<enum>204.</enum>
<header>Conforming
amendments</header>
<subsection id="id554b170eeeef4aef841f365d6a3a844b">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<text>Section 106 of
the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15811) is repealed.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id855ade074d06462e9473e0bee7a0587d">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<text>Sections 131,
132, 133, 2103, and 2107 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 6348,
6349, 6350, 13453, 13456) are repealed.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idD3F0422B177247A7AA2D224D66B9AE92">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<text>Section 2101(a)
of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 13451(a)) is amended in the
third
sentence by striking <quote>sections 2102, 2103, 2104, 2105, 2106, 2107, and
2108</quote> and inserting <quote>sections 2102, 2104, 2105, 2106, and 2108 of
this Act and section 376 of the Energy Policy and Conservation
Act,</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="id1ffa653d-af68-42b5-9eb9-9804bc026c15">
<enum>B</enum>
<header>Supply
Star</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1ae87ffa-838c-4d20-a20b-91658262e382" section-type="subsequent-section">
<enum>211.</enum>
<header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supply Star</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Energy Policy and Conservation Act is
amended by inserting after section 324A (42 U.S.C. 6294a) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id436bdb72-a5f5-403c-a2ea-3105d9997057" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idab57720b-b3ab-4cfd-840a-8f1a84885dcb" section-type="subsequent-section">
<enum>324B.</enum>
<header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supply Star Program</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id004eb43b-5c0b-49f9-b138-e5f0e0837624">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is established within the Department
of Energy a Supply Star program to identify and promote practices,
recognize
companies, and, as appropriate, recognize products that use highly
efficient
supply chains in a manner that conserves energy, water, and other
resources.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb0ac8216-2672-4bd5-9afe-de2ee8f17d2c">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coordination</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out the program described in
subsection (a), the Secretary shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id61ce7626-ea3a-46e0-bcb9-8395bb3f664d">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consult with other appropriate agencies;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id011e69f8-7e3d-48fa-9634-e08fd8d2239b">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinate efforts with the Energy Star
program established under section 324A.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id719e657d-8597-4c2b-b8de-8d83ad1e3274">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out the Supply Star program
described in subsection (a), the Secretary shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id545bee1b-71e3-4880-b227-7f39bc659c39">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">promote practices, recognize companies,
and, as appropriate, recognize products that comply with the Supply
Star
program as the preferred practices, companies, and products in the
marketplace
for maximizing supply chain efficiency;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id57e5ca08-7382-4f0c-8cd3-943d6608f392">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">work to enhance industry and public
awareness of the Supply Star program;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id80a4a7b2-4dea-4259-9fba-8d5865c1958b">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">collect and disseminate data on supply
chain energy resource consumption;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id988076ad-ab35-4d49-9bc6-162c1d7ff45f">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">develop and disseminate metrics, processes,
and analytical tools (including software) for evaluating supply
chain energy
resource use;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id56b2b2f8-d21b-4f0f-ba6a-dded8aebeb93">
<enum>(5)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">develop guidance at the sector level for
improving supply chain efficiency;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddae34c58-f49a-4931-96ec-2a80d8858e30">
<enum>(6)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">work with domestic and international
organizations to harmonize approaches to analyzing supply chain
efficiency,
including the development of a consistent set of tools, templates,
calculators,
and databases; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4c065b72-b625-4b0c-ac88-9ee5219fed67">
<enum>(7)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">work with industry, including small
businesses, to improve supply chain efficiency through activities
that
include—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbb212c52-8bd8-4a4c-9836-c665b8982a1b">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">developing and sharing best practices;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id803ee33e-776b-4e02-b6d4-a8a675ac77ff">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">providing opportunities to benchmark supply
chain efficiency.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id47ae3db6-1e0a-4dcc-b17a-4f5e543f8c44">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Evaluation</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In any evaluation of supply chain
efficiency carried out by the Secretary with respect to a specific
product, the
Secretary shall consider energy consumption and resource use
throughout the
entire lifecycle of a product, including production, transport,
packaging, use,
and disposal.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2269634c-a050-46e7-8dcc-0bb603ebd3b5">
<enum>(e)</enum>
<header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants and Incentives</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1ef73a71-1cf2-413a-9a5c-94d1b52f0385">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may award grants or other
forms of incentives on a competitive basis to eligible entities, as
determined
by the Secretary, for the purposes of—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id17f831e6-a2fe-403f-88c6-e82d60ef3a3d">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">studying supply chain energy resource
efficiency; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide159402e-b9bd-4dd2-8444-84d2eb55c7b2">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">demonstrating and achieving reductions in
the energy resource consumption of commercial products through
changes and
improvements to the production supply and distribution chain of the
products.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id321f1eab-f54d-4aee-9172-43d70018d5f6">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of information</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any information or data generated as a
result of the grants or incentives described in paragraph (1) shall
be used to
inform the development of the Supply Star Program.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ideb7947d4-de48-4a6f-8148-5ae0b48ed789">
<enum>(f)</enum>
<header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Training</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall use funds to support
professional training programs to develop and communicate methods,
practices,
and tools for improving supply chain efficiency.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id19769b74-1a2a-408f-a0d2-cc1dcb0c410e">
<enum>(g)</enum>
<header>Effect of
outsourcing of American jobs</header>
<text>For purposes of this section, the
outsourcing of American jobs in the production of a product shall
not count as
a positive factor in determining supply chain efficiency.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id584a952e-9367-4601-bc4d-ec472a656cc2">
<enum>(h)</enum>
<header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
Appropriations</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000
for the
period of fiscal years 2014 through
2023.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section></subtitle><subtitle id="id875B3F03069248CB93D74419DA52AE97">
<enum>C</enum>
<header>Electric motor
rebate program</header>
<section id="idc4f49fbeec70447d942eee2b6b4fb18f">
<enum>221.</enum>
<header>Energy saving
motor control, electric motor, and advanced motor systems rebate
program</header>
<subsection id="id9ead9994f4b0436d8432b2083490cdae">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Definitions</header>
<text>In
this section:</text>
<paragraph id="id1a423d98486a43c898fbeb46658053c3">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Advanced motor
and drive system</header>
<text>The term <term>advanced motor and drive
system</term> means an electric motor and any required associated electronic
control that—</text>
<subparagraph id="id8b7daecfec474d909bb1d4608fef6391">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>offers variable
or multiple speed operation;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idae852e7340a4419b9f1dfba54edab324">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>offers efficiency
at a rated full load that is greater than the efficiency described for the
equivalent rating in—</text>
<clause id="idBC78229AE40D4ED787931C8A19D06DEB">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>table 12–12 of
National Electrical Manufactures Association (NEMA MG 1–2011); or</text>
</clause><clause id="idF743DF337B1C4E5598B292DC870C228F">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>section 431.446
of National Electrical Manufactures Association (2012); and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id29ae36ef8c684b5a9d462b5b4169befc">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>uses—</text>
<clause id="id5DAB6D9254874FE58B0B5BEA823694D9">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>permanent magnet
alternating current synchronous motor technology;</text>
</clause><clause id="id821323D277BB475EBC6DF6A4C16FC4AE">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>electronically
commutated motor technology;</text>
</clause><clause id="id6E3F8EA0D11C4148956F7F664419EB93">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>switched
reluctance motor technology;</text>
</clause><clause id="id958F4E893DA74F21AAD3CF714602774A">
<enum>(iv)</enum>
<text>synchronous
reluctance motor technology; or</text>
</clause><clause id="id5F4DC22494014C0A968F414EDA37C1FC">
<enum>(v)</enum>
<text>such other motor
that has greater than 1 horsepower and uses a drive systems technology, as
determined by the Secretary.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id91bad1f46d8c4473a2b916d565758514">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Electric
motor</header>
<text>The term <term>electric motor</term> has the meaning given
the term in section 431.12 of title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (as in
effect on the date of enactment of this Act).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id74cf38fc79d74cb6907ca6c6c7b067e0">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Qualified
product</header>
<text>The term <term>qualified product</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="id7599e12e9470471b816524cb2bb962f8">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>a new constant
speed electric motor control that—</text>
<clause id="id5AE33B0226564DCBA69E4A9210E43C4F">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>is
attached to an electric motor; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id4CCA65664D1B4222BB657438B43DB4DA">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>reduces the
energy use of the electric motor by not less than 5 percent; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id647ce0de2aee489e9f4856914ac73bd2">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>commercial or
industrial machinery or equipment that—</text>
<clause id="ide3b02996e36346bcaa388657a6590f6a">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>is
manufactured and incorporates an advanced motor and drive system that has
greater than 1 horsepower into a redesigned machine or equipment that did
not
previously make use of the advanced motor and drive system; or</text>
</clause><clause id="id894aff2f848f449c9a05f89026245344">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>was previously
used and placed back into service in calendar year 2014 or 2015 that
upgrades
the existing machine or equipment with an advanced motor and drive
system.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id71842555d30b42f19a50540cf20219ea">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Establishment</header>
<text>Not
later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary
shall
establish a program to provide rebates for expenditures made by qualified
entities for the purchase and installation of qualified products.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id52A790A8CEF7472093643DA4F9982038">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Qualified
entities</header>
<text>A qualified entity under this section shall be—</text>
<paragraph id="id71CCCAC70163453799A3EC01E3066FC7">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>in the case of a
qualified product described in subsection (a)(3)(A), the purchaser of the
qualified product for whom the qualified product is installed; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id1A3F94F2A8214C888DF6182E66C261B1">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>in the case of a
qualified product described in subsection (a)(3)(B)), the manufacturer of
the
machine or equipment that incorporated the advanced motor and drive system
into
the machine or equipment.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ide0580f9108854d419b400e5542917ea5">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header>Requirements</header>
<paragraph id="id9be772734349432eb3eb900b811ae8d3">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Application</header>
<text>To
be eligible to receive a rebate under this section, a qualified entity
shall
submit to the Secretary or an entity designated by the Secretary an
application
and certification in such form, at such time, and containing such
information
as the Secretary may require, including demonstrated evidence that the
qualified entity purchased a qualified product and—</text>
<subparagraph id="id914cc850380d4573a7e90be0d5281bb2">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>in the case of a
qualified product described in subsection (a)(3)(A)—</text>
<clause id="ide97e33f5bd414e7a91c0310fc4fc3964">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>demonstrated
evidence that the qualified entity installed the qualified product in
calendar
year 2014 or 2015;</text>
</clause><clause id="id2fc5c98d09de4f1daebcfb836cf86821">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>demonstrated
evidence that the qualified product reduces motor energy use by not less
than 5
percent, in accordance with procedures approved by the Secretary; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id58535e4fedfb4ff4b65dc7607056b9a5">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>the serial
number, manufacturer, and model number from the nameplate of the installed
motor of the qualified entity on which the qualified product was
installed;
and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id92e1837252a748ce842fe3a6139d9dbc">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>in the case of a
qualified product described in subsection (a)(3)(B)—</text>
<clause id="idf7809ca984fb4b4da5891ccfef0b5b5b">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>demonstrated
evidence that the manufacturer—</text>
<subclause id="idB4B5E63EBD5F48AF933D018F2AB138C3">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>redesigned a
machine or equipment of a manufacturer that did not previously make use of
an
advanced motor and drive system; or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id5E5B3FF67D5E472E982021893DD265A0">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>upgraded a used
machine or equipment to incorporate an advanced motor and drive system;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="id8bbeb4d2a2eb428aa57a5b994ba6a2a6">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>demonstrated
evidence that the qualified product was sold, installed, or placed back
into
service in calendar year 2014 or 2015; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id4255295915164687b370a7d26dcf21a1">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>the serial
number, manufacturer, and model number from the nameplate of the installed
motor of the qualified entity with which the advanced motor and drive
system is
integrated.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ide2f0b8b3262146ccb1a1e7cbf5c0ed39">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Authorized
amount of rebate</header>
<text>The Secretary may provide to a qualified entity
that has satisfied the requirements of paragraph (1) a rebate the amount
of
which shall be equal to the product obtained by multiplying—</text>
<subparagraph id="idb7b2adabdd954014ba09c9058b2b1eaa">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>the nameplate
rated horsepower of—</text>
<clause id="id41251625C12D4CA1B44587422AE90CEC">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>the
electric motor to which the new constant speed electric motor control is
attached;</text>
</clause><clause id="id7ECD0AD99EFA4CF88892243CCFD07919">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>the new electric
motor that replaced a previously installed electric motor; or</text>
</clause><clause id="id10BC0BBDD61E4931A9BF7F7D8203447A">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>the advanced
electric motor control system; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ida55d41a3fea742959b822a2abe23265e">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>$25.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idacac4d2e9c344b3091c923cb3f475ccb">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Maximum
aggregate amount</header>
<text>No entity shall be entitled to aggregate rebates
under this section in excess of $250,000.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id9b6166cb9b53419ca59bf3b5da12a796">
<enum>(e)</enum>
<header>Authorization
of appropriations</header>
<text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry
out this section $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 and 2015, to
remain
available until expended.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="idB3AC996769854AD291033008426DA064">
<enum>D</enum>
<header>Transformer
rebate program</header>
<section id="ID5edffc947adc4bac9f4ccaee49e852a9">
<enum>231.</enum>
<header>Energy
efficient transformer rebate program</header>
<subsection id="IDa0fd1af2ef9347da951eacaed85fa631">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Definition of
qualified transformer</header>
<text>In this section, the term <term>qualified
transformer</term> means a transformer that meets or exceeds the National
Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) Premium Efficiency
designation,
calculated to 2 decimal points, as having 30 percent fewer losses than the
NEMA
TP–1–2002 efficiency standard for a transformer of the same number of
phases
and capacity, as measured in kilovolt-amperes.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDa56abb87954d446195f8f8649093c5a7">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Establishment</header>
<text>Not
later than January 1, 2014, the Secretary shall establish a program under
which
rebates are provided for expenditures made by owners of industrial or
manufacturing facilities, commercial buildings, and multifamily
residential
buildings for the purchase and installation of a new energy efficient
transformers.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDb1207f780d434c40b4c15024699b2b5e">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Requirements</header>
<paragraph id="ID430fe770f2804254b6b65c7238744f51">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Application</header>
<text>To
be eligible to receive a rebate under this section, an owner shall submit
to
the Secretary an application in such form, at such time, and containing
such
information as the Secretary may require, including demonstrated evidence
that
the owner purchased a qualified transformer.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDa4558a541ce544b2a7fe0ba0c7800af7">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Authorized
amount of rebate</header>
<text>For qualified transformers, rebates, in dollars
per kilovolt-ampere (referred to in this paragraph as <term>kVA</term>) shall
be—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID1ba8483a11af417c91c6e54963d0188a">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>for 3-phase
transformers—</text>
<clause id="ID873d7e17612b43d9806f9eaa61359df1">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>with a capacity
of not greater than 10 kVA, 15;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID6c1782fdafcd4824bfa80490d1310a72">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>with a capacity
of not less than 10 kVA and not greater than 100 kVA, the difference
between 15
and the quotient obtained by dividing—</text>
<subclause id="ID68c1a8420f2e46f18da6ea8dfd3c16bd">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>the difference
between—</text>
<item id="IDd54c8e56ff8f43e092adf3d645317383">
<enum>(aa)</enum>
<text>the
capacity of the transformer in kVA; and</text>
</item><item id="ID90ba8b7425c54f3688940faf8d28b0e6">
<enum>(bb)</enum>
<text>10;
by</text>
</item></subclause><subclause id="IDf46ca43eda054f39979d768f33181031">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>9; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="ID8f58bac114f74993b63df1ed8df7540a">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>with a capacity
greater than or equal to 100 kVA, 5; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID34c4a6fba6bd4ce38b65eaa5cff16478">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>for single-phase
transformers, 75 percent of the rebate for a 3-phase transformer of the
same
capacity.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDc250ec58362348e180dcd966c602fed7">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header>Authorization
of appropriations</header>
<text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry
out this section $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 and 2015, to
remain
available until expended.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id834E0D34E8B04718B8D7F39B0C135AF9">
<enum>(e)</enum>
<header>Termination of
effectiveness</header>
<text>The authority provided by this section terminates
effective December 31, 2015.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle>
<enum>III</enum>
<header>Federal agency
energy efficiency</header>
<section id="HB41A3F92FB544F639465E10EB5EFA41B" section-type="subsequent-section">
<enum>301.</enum>
<header>Energy-efficient and
energy-saving information technologies</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 543 of the National Energy
Conservation Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8253) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H6B30E2C17C914D509A51E74C47E6D3E1">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>by
redesignating the second subsection (f) (relating to large capital energy
investments) as subsection (g); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0970C542EDAB42FA94003B5EA6BF06A2">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by
adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2AE77878B55E47DAB58CFBFACAB47999" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H6F9D83D12C694145A985231EBB951462">
<enum>(h)</enum>
<header>Federal
Implementation Strategy for Energy-efficient and Energy-Saving Information
Technologies</header>
<paragraph id="idBC781E05AE154E19973C96C4CFC6C999">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Definitions</header>
<text>In
this subsection:</text>
<subparagraph id="id453886EB4C984398AF190B4C2A944368">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>Director</header>
<text>The
term <quote>Director</quote> means the Director of the Office of Management and
Budget.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idD706C77AB7764E548D7A2F6BF214AA1E">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Information
technology</header>
<text>The term <quote>information technology</quote> has the
meaning given the term in section 11101 of title 40, United States Code.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HFC3270BD98404BCCB8590B8ADA7792E5">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Development of
implementation strategy</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not
later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this subsection, each Federal
agency shall collaborate with the Director to develop an implementation
strategy (including best-practices and measurement and verification techniques)
for the maintenance, purchase, and use by the Federal agency of
energy-efficient and energy-saving information technologies.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA0C713B46F2540FBA32B3787BC307135">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Administration</header>
<text>In
developing an implementation strategy, each Federal agency shall
consider—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF60A3489E55C4580BE38FA0C40A1D388">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>advanced metering
infrastructure;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HED3EB773074340B2B6C104B54CC8BFC4">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">energy efficient data center strategies and
methods of increasing asset and infrastructure utilization;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H77356C64816A4BF6B1B0E589E5A1D538">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">advanced power management tools;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H849AF64C3AA24354B82E7C4F0A89F5C8">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">building information modeling, including
building energy management; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4555BE2AA5A54B2A8FFDC46F2A3AAFEB">
<enum>(E)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">secure telework and travel substitution
tools.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC722BFD504FD48A38E5B7CA178FA2296">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Performance
goals</header>
<subparagraph id="H9F574BC71A2A466395B31E3D722F3E68">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than
September 30, 2014, the Director, in consultation with the Secretary, shall
establish performance goals for evaluating the efforts of Federal agencies in
improving the maintenance, purchase, and use of energy-efficient and
energy-saving information technology systems.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idd2603fd2a0c74f17904aaa6f5c3da9f0">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Best
practices</header>
<text>The Chief Information Officers Council
established under section 3603 of title 44, United States Code, shall
supplement the performance goals established under this paragraph with
recommendations on best practices for the attainment of the performance goals,
to include a requirement for agencies to consider the use of—</text>
<clause id="id7916A8499F59461AAE540F883F54DC44">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>energy savings
performance contracting; and</text>
</clause><clause id="idBA57FC160F1D4222A0822CF5181D86E8">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>utility energy
services contracting.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H7F82F7F72A6A47CAA0B7E7CC094D20C4">
<enum>(5)</enum>
<header>Reports</header>
<subparagraph id="HD6DDBADB60B04FBFB4F774D4172B11AD">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>Agency
reports</header>
<text>Each Federal agency subject to the requirements of this
subsection shall include in the report of the agency under section 527 of the
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17143) a description of
the efforts and results of the agency under this subsection.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H37A0CBF176CC4CE98EE39DBD5A4F415C">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>OMB Government
efficiency reports and scorecards</header>
<text>Effective beginning not later
than October 1, 2014, the Director shall include in the annual report and
scorecard of the Director required under section 528 of the Energy Independence
and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17144) a description of the efforts and
results of Federal agencies under this subsection.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id87d8f6fc995b42f8aaf9df40a12dc320">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<header>Use of existing
reporting structures</header>
<text>The Director may require Federal agencies to
submit any information required to be submitted under this subsection though
reporting structures in use as of the date of enactment of the
<short-title>Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2014</short-title>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="ided1b329045c541d9886050eb8d3dd749">
<enum>302.</enum>
<header>Availability
of funds for design updates</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3307 of title 40, United States
Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idbc7c07f74dc44b759119bf058eee5269">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>by redesignating
subsections (d) through (h) as subsections (e) through (i), respectively;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id7d41b447476247a2b66d57eb5c624aaa">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by inserting
after subsection (c) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id783B696E7E0A440ABABF469E25A9FBB4" style="OLC">
<subsection id="id1d6ea68eb0fa438d82ff58ca9c46d0da">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header>Availability of
funds for design updates</header>
<paragraph id="id1a691f8cd6a54ecb8116f1dd2e5fbde2">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>Subject to paragraph (2), for any project for which
congressional approval is received under subsection (a) and for
which the
design has been substantially completed but construction has not
begun, the
Administrator of General Services may use appropriated funds to
update the
project design to meet applicable Federal building energy
efficiency standards
established under section 305 of the Energy Conservation and
Production Act (42
U.S.C. 6834) and other requirements established under section 3312.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idd6c7a0353786408e84c24aea98e8932e">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Limitation</header>
<text>The
use of funds under paragraph (1) shall not exceed 125 percent of
the estimated
energy or other cost savings associated with the updates as
determined by a
life cycle cost analysis under section 544 of the National Energy
Conservation
Policy Act (42 U.S.C.
8254).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="HC29CF19AB53C454AA6959A60CB8BC6B1">
<enum>303.</enum>
<header>Energy
efficient data centers</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
453 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17112) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HE187C267AA6C455B9540528F5E76349D">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (c), by striking paragraph
(1) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H977B808A49384D8D86DAD0502217C13F" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HD4EA55B7AE284F8C86F7A5276083C972">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30
days after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2014</short-title>, the Secretary and the Administrator shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="id198C4549426146DC920856564FCA0717">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">designate an established information
technology industry organization to coordinate the program described in
subsection (b); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idC85B81D6D9D345DAB4D8B64BB209978D">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">make the designation public, including on
an appropriate website.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9153598BDCC74037896E026FC148DE15">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by
striking subsections (e) and (f) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD8580A784C99481CB9B13BBEB621288C" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HA64EAF2870714B7B89BFC966902F2DB0">
<enum>(e)</enum>
<header>Study</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary, with assistance from the
Administrator, shall—</text>
<paragraph id="HA05031CD2E9645998ED14FDF62B98083">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not later than December 31, 2014, make
available to the public an update to the Report to Congress on Server and Data
Center Energy Efficiency published on August 2, 2007, under section 1 of Public
Law 109–431 (120 Stat. 2920), that provides—</text>
<subparagraph id="HC975F359DD6848448022B015F125CAF8">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>a comparison and
gap analysis of the estimates and projections contained in the original report
with new data regarding the period from 2007 through 2013;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDD412C9084F3442F9BC1DDAC3C0D7E7C">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an analysis considering the impact of
information technologies, to include virtualization and cloud computing, in the
public and private sectors; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7B42D74A94D2479DA80FB08CF5BDEFDE">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>updated
projections and recommendations for best practices through fiscal year 2020;
and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H95375272A5CA41CEB4E7A778DEA6A88F">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>collaborate with
the organization designated under subsection (c) in preparing the
report.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H432A32B652824E6782A6991B8F19893C">
<enum>(f)</enum>
<header>Data center
energy practitioner program</header>
<paragraph id="idb0118a4763654955a52cc005fc30a8d8">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>The Secretary, in collaboration with the organization
designated under subsection (c) and in consultation with the Administrator for
the Office of E-Government and Information Technology within the Office of
Management and Budget, shall maintain a data center energy practitioner program
that leads to the certification of energy practitioners qualified to evaluate
the energy usage and efficiency opportunities in data centers.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idFF4F7DBB9E15421D8C26B71FD2BAA6A1">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Evaluations</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each Federal agency shall consider having
the data centers of the agency evaluated every 4 years by energy practitioners
certified pursuant to the program, whenever practicable using certified
practitioners employed by the
agency.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB764FAEE4D604E7690DC8811BE649076">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text>by
redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (j); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6815179DA21945D2AC93D713214D3E52">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<text>by
inserting after subsection (f) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB00AA742D1634AD68B7ADC1236F613D9" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HB12A010DB3B7499386FDB39C5A876577">
<enum>(g)</enum>
<header>Open data
initiative</header>
<paragraph id="id4943fce2cc6f4a3d8afd21ffcbc3ef3c">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>The Secretary, in collaboration with the organization
designated under subsection (c) and in consultation with the Administrator for
the Office of E-Government and Information Technology within the Office of
Management and Budget, shall establish an open data initiative for Federal data
center energy usage data, with the purpose of making the data available and
accessible in a manner that empowers further data center optimization and
consolidation.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id51E6814F2F084A08961DE54A0C5CE1E9">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Administration</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In establishing the initiative, the
Secretary shall consider use of the online Data Center Maturity Model.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HE34A6201D15C481688B939ED4629C8F9">
<enum>(h)</enum>
<header>International
specifications and metrics</header>
<text>The Secretary, in collaboration with
the organization designated under subsection (c), shall actively participate in
efforts to harmonize global specifications and metrics for data center energy
efficiency.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HC9F31C93AD8D4F43B848A9E815BEDF94">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<header>Data center
utilization metric</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The
Secretary, in collaboration with the organization designated under subsection
(c), shall assist in the development of an efficiency metric that measures the
energy efficiency of the overall data
center.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="idC1CD96AA120C46E7A875EABFC9B573B5">
<enum>304.</enum>
<header>Budget-neutral
demonstration program for energy and water conservation improvements at
multifamily residential units</header>
<subsection id="id22FAC99C7058406EB5EC6245E0379B8B">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Establishment</header>
<text>The
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (referred to in this section as the
<term>Secretary</term>) shall establish a demonstration program under which,
during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, and ending on
September 30,
2017, the Secretary may enter into budget-neutral, performance-based agreements
that result in a reduction in energy or water costs with such entities as the
Secretary determines to be appropriate under which the entities shall carry out
projects for energy or water conservation improvements at not more than 20,000
residential units in multifamily buildings participating in—</text>
<paragraph id="id97FB00F968404638AE19796433B181D3">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>the
project-based rental assistance program under section 8 of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), other than assistance provided under
section 8(o) of that Act;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idEDA30D76C65D4B41900694D2BF77AC6B">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>the
supportive housing for the elderly program under section 202 of the Housing Act
of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q); or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id17823635AF08475E9FAF710B8BBB3C58">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text>the
supportive housing for persons with disabilities program under section
811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C.
8013(d)(2)).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idEFC353C9B640410380917B11C7537FEE">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Requirements</header>
<paragraph id="idA74A5E5EA72B42FABA498CC1F8B881EB">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Payments
contingent on savings</header>
<subparagraph id="idB3B96150E580410D9507EBAF080E138F">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>The Secretary shall provide to an entity a payment under
an agreement under this section only during applicable years for which an
energy or water cost savings is achieved with respect to the applicable
multifamily portfolio of properties, as determined by the Secretary, in
accordance with subparagraph (B).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6F1FB5AA47494C13A72DE10B83BCF877">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Payment
methodology</header>
<clause id="id18D648FF0FEB4991BBEEE57FACBF78AF">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>Each agreement under this section shall include a
pay-for-success provision—</text>
<subclause id="idF87E8653A1F142CB9EF3051D6393EAF8">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>that
will serve as a payment threshold for the term of the agreement; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id298294CFEF9F41A384C0BE57EFDD145A">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>pursuant to
which the Department of Housing and Urban Development shall share a percentage
of the savings at a level determined by the Secretary that is sufficient to
cover the administrative costs of carrying out this section.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="idCF581D9F8C004BAAAAB2A55BA478B2B8">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<header>Limitations</header>
<text>A
payment made by the Secretary under an agreement under this section
shall—</text>
<subclause id="id61F8FB0D9E8A43319A5BB2A1BF836230">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>be
contingent on documented utility savings; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id8A079664267E49DFABE960FA39CD22FC">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>not
exceed the utility savings achieved by the date of the payment, and not
previously paid, as a result of the improvements made under the
agreement.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idcb1ecf63ff514fa9b6c395a9b87e3ede">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<header>Third party
verification</header>
<text>Savings payments made by the Secretary under this
section shall be based on a measurement and verification protocol that includes
at least—</text>
<clause id="idef1d2ec50fa84d86a4ae3e2406566fe1">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>establishment of
a weather-normalized and occupancy-normalized utility consumption baseline
established preretrofit;</text>
</clause><clause id="id1030982336834d20b77f724f53533f1d">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>annual
third party confirmation of actual utility consumption and cost for owner-paid
utilities;</text>
</clause><clause id="id2f525efaa94e466485d963b3009c333b">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>annual third
party validation of the tenant utility allowances in effect during the
applicable year and vacancy rates for each unit type; and</text>
</clause><clause id="idd5497be9dbf4497b835140df647cac4b">
<enum>(iv)</enum>
<text>annual
third party determination of savings to the Secretary.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id80969AD187AB42D49DE434FD056EC48F">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Term</header>
<text>The
term of an agreement under this section shall be not longer than 12
years.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idfa25a1ae28174621898f838b360f2c1e">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Entity
eligibility</header>
<text>The Secretary shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="idD37C112229EC402AABE8D3C25E73B7F8">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>establish a
competitive process for entering into agreements under this section; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idD36F8012A9D4419FA7DE69B328EB46F5">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>enter into such
agreements only with entities that demonstrate significant experience relating
to—</text>
<clause id="id1314520282154977b1c8db96bd002ad3">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>financing and
operating properties receiving assistance under a program described in
subsection (a);</text>
</clause><clause id="idb01e94076d814d13a63bd7e5ebf43fb3">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>oversight of
energy and water conservation programs, including oversight of contractors;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="id50a92723426e4c4eaf9e6a0ba7f45ec3">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>raising capital
for energy and water conservation improvements from charitable organizations or
private investors.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id24c0dc32ef544e1ca27578bb5ded247c">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Geographical
diversity</header>
<text>Each agreement entered into under this section shall
provide for the inclusion of properties with the greatest feasible regional and
State variance.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id33605802DCC142CC997C45B34D34240E">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Plan and
reports</header>
<paragraph id="id3F2752764993460284C29B7B85E40E3B">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Plan</header>
<text>Not
later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and
the Senate a detailed plan for the implementation of this section.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id73A9A824803E4684930FE60D824094BD">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Reports</header>
<text>Not
later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually
thereafter, the Secretary shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="idF29CB22D1E7A4DA8AA0E0E3006B99702">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>conduct an
evaluation of the program under this section; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idC9563009166046E5B0CE7FC9743D652A">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>submit to
Congress a report describing each evaluation conducted under subparagraph
(A).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idC9ADE5699F8849F487DCCE4FADCC880D">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header>Funding</header>
<text>For
each fiscal year during which an agreement under this section is in effect, the
Secretary may use to carry out this section any funds appropriated to the
Secretary for the renewal of contracts under a program described in subsection
(a).</text>
</subsection></section>
<enum>IV</enum>
<header>Regulatory provisions</header>
<subtitle id="id52D4CE2BA5EC4082A21EA15622BAECA1" style="OLC">
<enum>A</enum>
<header>Third-party
certification under Energy Star program</header>
<section id="id6B677A22B8C14381A2E708116AB88317">
<enum>401.</enum>
<header>Third-party
certification under Energy Star program</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 324A of the Energy Policy and
Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6294a) is amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8838353FBF4A4E3E8D26FC022E469ED1" style="OLC">
<subsection id="idCC6FC0740E4C417AB23E5E02946C7E21">
<enum>(e)</enum>
<header>Third-party
certification</header>
<paragraph id="id73c89c52d1ad4f64a178c1e08ea51bbc">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>Subject to paragraph (2), not later than 180 days after
the date of enactment of this subsection, the Administrator shall revise the
certification requirements for the labeling of consumer, home, and office
electronic products for program partners that have complied with all
requirements of the Energy Star program for a period of at least 18
months.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id5F912CEF96434B09A99EFEE15563A7F8">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Administration</header>
<text>In
the case of a program partner described in paragraph (1), the new requirements
under paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idBE19F2E928A84E5387E5D43CA6A99FA5">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>shall not require
third-party certification for a product to be listed; but</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idAD7F287AF5DE403B9021D2530BDE28FD">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>may require that
test data and other product information be submitted to facilitate product
listing and performance verification for a sample of products.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idE6FD67F86D4542199A20E692535173F0">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Third
parties</header>
<text>Nothing in this subsection prevents the Administrator
from using third parties in the course of the administration of the Energy Star
program.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id338eda5c94a14312b14e49778930a63e">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Termination</header>
<subparagraph id="id79491197F6014512B9667382D3019232">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>Subject to subparagraph (B), an exemption from
third-party certification provided to a program partner under paragraph (1)
shall terminate if the program partner is found to have violated program
requirements with respect to at least 2 separate models during a 2-year
period.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idA144582EF8524933A26EEC9CE8EBDBDF">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Resumption</header>
<text>A
termination for a program partner under subparagraph (A) shall cease if the
program partner complies with all Energy Star program requirements for a period
of at least 3
years.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section></subtitle><subtitle id="idA89CDB5FC3E141AEA1299F5D8748D276" style="OLC">
<enum>B</enum>
<header>Federal green buildings</header>
<section id="id6d50493c4eeb42c2bde3406b2f568815">
<enum>411.</enum>
<header>High-performance
green Federal buildings</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 436(h) of the Energy Independence
and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17092(h)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id6A6D861A3C2B4F468E49B677E8CBE00E">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>in
the subsection heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">system</header-in-text></quote> and inserting
<quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">systems</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id4B69B399B5E84A58B82B376916C4EB83">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by
striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB36FEF426CDD4DFEB6315A17C8113F11" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id10c43102079b487f90e4a64960638378">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>Based on an ongoing review, the Federal Director shall
identify and shall provide to the Secretary pursuant to section 305(a)(3)(D) of
the Energy Conservation and Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6834(a)(3)(D)), a list of
those certification systems that the Director identifies as the most likely to
encourage a comprehensive and environmentally sound approach to certification
of green buildings.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idA131B04A8FF440209014F0E777629302">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text>in
paragraph (2)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id851C4EE8C9494C71BE8E15C822A273EB">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>in the matter
preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>system</quote> and inserting
<quote>systems</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idf88912cdeedc44a0957a124f7378b8e5">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>by striking
subparagraph (A) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0819D7DF2C4845768F690B6A5D01A899" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="idb8a3f34ed1cc4c4c80b84adb7303cb3c">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>an ongoing review
provided to the Secretary pursuant to section 305(a)(3)(D) of the Energy
Conservation and Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6834(a)(3)(D)), which shall—</text>
<clause id="id1B86D85D469D46B2AB8A1A7C174A9080">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>be
carried out by the Federal Director to compare and evaluate standards;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="idB9D3FF5ACE76432FBF39A9C3413A0BFA">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>allow any
developer or administrator of a rating system or certification system to be
included in the
review;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idAFAC87B36EBE48289A3BEE5451B7A552">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>in subparagraph
(E)(v), by striking <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon at the end;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id995848E6261343CFAA50150D2579EA0B">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text>in subparagraph
(F), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9F62545EDEC74D05AB82A3049C7977F6">
<enum>(E)</enum>
<text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id498E386A27F1466D8F0797EDB897843A" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="id50ccc04585104092a4197ac0d7eef144">
<enum>(G)</enum>
<text>a finding that,
for all credits addressing grown, harvested, or mined materials, the system
does not discriminate against the use of domestic products that have obtained
certifications of responsible sourcing; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb19e42eb446349f38ca656b4d2d63ba1">
<enum>(H)</enum>
<text>a finding that
the system incorporates life-cycle assessment as a credit
pathway.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section></subtitle><subtitle id="idF347A91E48FB4796BFC21622922AD5A4" style="OLC">
<enum>C</enum>
<header>Water heaters</header>
<section id="id14C321FB1C994857B9E7A4ED84453A52" section-type="subsequent-section">
<enum>421.</enum>
<header>Grid-enabled water
heaters</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Part B of title III of
the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6291 et seq.) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id7A9196F8E6CB445D9E361FA02D2502AD">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>in
section 325(e), by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id08FD77E1DC55413CBFBF51C55CAADD63" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="idFB23CF611EFA49909060BFEA2DD84828">
<enum>(6)</enum>
<header>Additional
standards for grid-enabled water heaters</header>
<subparagraph id="id476737A5C12147D698B52F60C4FCD584">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>Definitions</header>
<text>In
this paragraph:</text>
<clause id="id4D56080A763A4017B5E7CF64D81B08B6">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<header>Activation
key</header>
<text>The term <term>activation key</term> means a physical device
or control directly on the water heater, a software code, or a digital
communication means—</text>
<subclause id="id619C7DF48388459B8CB5853068F81D90">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>that must be
activated to enable the product to operate continuously and at its designed
specifications and capabilities; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id31BE2850C95A4C02A6A883B418EA6640">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>without which
activation the product will provide not greater than 50 percent of the rated
first hour delivery of hot water certified by the manufacturer.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="id09CB499D682D4B13A3B38F842FCD289F">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<header>Grid-enabled
water heater</header>
<text>The term <term>grid-enabled water heater</term>
means an electric resistance water heater—</text>
<subclause id="id771FD95C8F774BBC9AA10CFEA73AFC93">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>with a rated
storage tank volume of more than 75 gallons;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id96931CC8B33E4A1A8CF5889DDD8BA5E4">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>manufactured on
or after April 16, 2015;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="idE398BBD5794A42F5A38B7E3D349292E5">
<enum>(III)</enum>
<text>that
has—</text>
<item id="id5D956E382AD848018804E06D8E3CC871">
<enum>(aa)</enum>
<text>an
energy factor of not less than 1.061 minus the product obtained by
multiplying—</text>
<subitem id="id2BBE3E4161B347A7BE57EBF583182343">
<enum>(AA)</enum>
<text>the
rated storage volume of the tank, expressed in gallons; and</text>
</subitem><subitem id="id5B4F2C71CB2841AD8631CA913B4ED11D">
<enum>(BB)</enum>
<text>0.00168;
or</text>
</subitem></item><item id="idE896539DD08F4A238741FDC108323907">
<enum>(bb)</enum>
<text>an
efficiency level equivalent to the energy factor under item (aa) and expressed
as a uniform energy descriptor based on the revised test procedure for water
heaters described in paragraph (5);</text>
</item></subclause><subclause id="idAFC2E439402B4A8CAC2E8D6E3376CCE8">
<enum>(IV)</enum>
<text>equipped by the
manufacturer with an activation key; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id40A9EBA9098344BFB2F04F943BF5F7E3">
<enum>(V)</enum>
<text>that bears a
permanent label applied by the manufacturer that—</text>
<item id="id5BF67665E1AC4761B0102F83498F1B06">
<enum>(aa)</enum>
<text>is
made of material not adversely affected by water;</text>
</item><item id="idB2F640BE488A4F8786A3589C5E825D38">
<enum>(bb)</enum>
<text>is
attached by means of non-water-soluble adhesive; and</text>
</item><item id="id28D34ED828C643A5B44FBFF89E2119EE">
<enum>(cc)</enum>
<text>advises
purchasers and end-users of the intended and appropriate use of the product
with the following notice printed in 16.5 point Arial Narrow Bold
font:</text>
<non-statutory-material>
<para>
<quote>IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
This water heater is intended only for use as part of an electric thermal
storage or demand response program. It will not provide adequate hot water
unless enrolled in such a program and activated by your utility company or
another program operator. Confirm the availability of a program in your local
area before purchasing or installing this product.</quote>.
</para>
</non-statutory-material>
</item></subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idF55DC9F3281D4077BCF3FEB98403FDD4">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Requirement</header>
<text>The
manufacturer or private labeler shall provide the activation key only to
utilities or other companies operating electric thermal storage or demand
response programs that use grid-enabled water heaters.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id4fa9917eeb444e7bafbd66f694974bc2">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<header>Reports</header>
<clause id="id73824EB16F7C496FB4DA31F995305BE3">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<header>Manufacturers</header>
<text>The
Secretary shall require each manufacturer of grid-enabled water heaters to
report to the Secretary annually the number of grid-enabled water heaters that
the manufacturer ships each year.</text>
</clause><clause id="id141245A2F07442EB88959358F11847A5">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<header>Operators</header>
<text>The
Secretary shall require utilities and other demand response and thermal storage
program operators to report annually the number of grid-enabled water heaters
activated for their programs using forms of the Energy Information Agency or
using such other mechanism that the Secretary determines appropriate after an
opportunity for notice and comment.</text>
</clause><clause id="id467634B6EE1946A8ADB41F02B332FA06">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<header>Confidentiality
requirements</header>
<text>The Secretary shall treat shipment data reported by
manufacturers as confidential business information.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idEB4AEE14517743859A07F4B1024C92B6">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<header>Publication of
information</header>
<clause id="id489F39DE4656427190B66CBB93680B56">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>In 2017 and 2019, the Secretary shall publish an analysis
of the data collected under subparagraph (C) to assess the extent to which
shipped products are put into use in demand response and thermal storage
programs.</text>
</clause><clause id="idB47A44CAA64741B3B64EF41A3C8A6B90">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<header>Prevention of
product diversion</header>
<text>If the Secretary determines that sales of
grid-enabled water heaters exceed by 15 percent or greater the number of such
products activated for use in demand response and thermal storage programs
annually, the Secretary shall, after opportunity for notice and comment,
establish procedures to prevent product diversion for non-program
purposes.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idba3ee9231a724dfca0f96a1811ab734a">
<enum>(E)</enum>
<header>Compliance</header>
<clause id="idA1A68EA5293442F085C8A8A5C52C353D">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>Subparagraphs (A) through (D) shall remain in effect
until the Secretary determines under this section that grid-enabled water
heaters do not require a separate efficiency requirement.</text>
</clause><clause id="id8b7872d8a4da4966b814c8a85a236113">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<header>Effective
date</header>
<text>If the Secretary exercises the authority described in clause
(i) or amends the efficiency requirement for grid-enabled water heaters, that
action will take effect on the date described in subsection
(m)(4)(A)(ii).</text>
</clause><clause id="id5f343a3aa8c24c54be323d27276e5dc1">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<header>Consideration</header>
<text>In
carrying out this section with respect to electric water heaters, the Secretary
shall consider the impact on thermal storage and demand response programs,
including the consequent impact on energy savings, electric bills, electric
reliability, integration of renewable resources, and the environment.</text>
</clause><clause id="id313db6a266a2471994e84153d6d03577">
<enum>(iv)</enum>
<header>Requirements</header>
<text>In
carrying out this subparagraph, the Secretary shall require that grid-enabled
water heaters be equipped with communication capability to enable the
grid-enabled water heaters to participate in ancillary services programs if the
Secretary determines that the technology is available, practical, and
cost-effective.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idF8514122A87041909F3367C17E60AE1F">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>in
section 332—</text>
<subparagraph id="id7CA72759ED6442E0BB05B1B6097C8B56">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>in paragraph (5),
by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id2E61C1ED90684960AE399CCF5586C83E">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>in the first
paragraph (6), by striking the period at the end and inserting a
semicolon;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id7A9EFA6FC9524470AEAB068037B76FB7">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>by redesignating
the second paragraph (6) as paragraph (7);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id781D9112498A45E784EBB4FAFAF1C130">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text>in subparagraph
(B) of paragraph (7) (as so redesignated), by striking the period at the end
and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id45375DB972D24B088F38978BB278C70E">
<enum>(E)</enum>
<text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF159A879CB844AB4A114E4B91A150F67" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="idF6776468A0D948D1970C2ED97671BD4C">
<enum>(8)</enum>
<text>with respect to
grid-enabled water heaters that are not used as part of an electric thermal
storage or demand response program, for any person knowingly and
repeatedly—</text>
<subparagraph id="id5cc95f5924364ce8847fa45649d53f9e">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>to distribute
activation keys for those grid-enabled water heaters;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ida160fb10788f4c7ca7594f4397cd547f">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>otherwise to
enable the full operation of those grid-enabled water heaters; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id44de9cdd3c5e44c6851ad9e60b0f4c0f">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>to remove or
render illegible the labels of those grid-enabled water
heaters.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section></subtitle><subtitle id="id2BFF812E0C4C4467BACAD95A5CF95726" style="OLC">
<enum>D</enum>
<header>Energy
performance requirement for Federal buildings</header>
<section id="id95083A0966DE4CBE8D5799FDE9EC1199">
<enum>431.</enum>
<header>Energy
performance requirement for Federal buildings</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 543 of the National Energy
Conservation Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8253) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id3ADC187B4BE94CF4BCF1AC5D38C57711">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>by
striking subsection (a) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id11BC674675AC4F0C97211338B5A914BC" style="OLC">
<subsection id="idc328feee1713431b9e7ac1ca63718c4f">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Energy
performance requirement for Federal buildings</header>
<paragraph id="idef237a003f5247689cefb35b3dfcc628">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Requirement</header>
<text>Subject
to paragraph (2), each agency shall apply energy conservation measures to, and
shall improve the design for the construction of, the Federal buildings of the
agency (including each industrial or laboratory facility) so that the energy
consumption per gross square foot of the Federal buildings of the agency in
fiscal years 2006 through 2017 is reduced, as compared with the energy
consumption per gross square foot of the Federal buildings of the agency in
fiscal year 2003, by the percentage specified in the following table:</text>
<table align-to-level="section" blank-lines-before="1" colsep="0" frame="none" line-rules="no-gen" rowsep="0" rule-weights="0.0.0.0.0.0" table-template-name="Tax (No Calculation)" table-type="Leaderwork">
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<colspec coldef="txt" colname="column1" colwidth="260pts" min-data-value="55"></colspec>
<colspec align="justify" coldef="fig" colname="column2" colsep="0" colwidth="64pts" min-data-value="9"></colspec>
<thead>
<row>
<entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="0"></entry>
<entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="0">
<bold>Percentage</bold>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1">
<bold>Fiscal Year</bold>
</entry>
<entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2">
<bold>Reduction</bold>
</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2006</entry>
<entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">2</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2007</entry>
<entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">4</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2008</entry>
<entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">9</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2009</entry>
<entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">12</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2010</entry>
<entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">15</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2011</entry>
<entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">18</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2012</entry>
<entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">21</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2013</entry>
<entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">24</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2014</entry>
<entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">27</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2015</entry>
<entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">30</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2016</entry>
<entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">33</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2017</entry>
<entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">36</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ideceb3ef03bb84c26a0fb78b1b0893c9e">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Exclusion for
buildings with energy intensive activities</header>
<subparagraph id="id226337D3D9A34974949E06AF9087CCE4">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>An agency may exclude from the requirements of paragraph
(1) any building (including the associated energy consumption and gross square
footage) in which energy intensive activities are carried out.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9C5CADFE1A5C40BFB3B7BD56801AAF89">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Reports</header>
<text>Each
agency shall identify and list in each report made under section 548(a) the
buildings designated by the agency for exclusion under subparagraph (A).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id7551123e84c4492ab4d67c4632573e71">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Review</header>
<text>Not
later than December 31, 2017, the Secretary shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="idF7931F44E2E9471283F3E24A0D173A84">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>review the
results of the implementation of the energy performance requirements
established under paragraph (1); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idB87762114F164A06B4AC063DF416A675">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>based on the
review conducted under subparagraph (A), submit to Congress a report that
addresses the feasibility of requiring each agency to apply energy conservation
measures to, and improve the design for the construction of, the Federal
buildings of the agency (including each industrial or laboratory facility) so
that the energy consumption per gross square foot of the Federal buildings of
the agency in each of fiscal years 2018 through 2030 is reduced, as compared
with the energy consumption per gross square foot of the Federal buildings of
the agency in the prior fiscal year, by 3
percent.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id2D5DB929E90F40F3B79AF933089B0C74">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>in
subsection (f)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idBB371CEDE80D41E49EA392A8BF0FA8BE">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="id8FFD4EA9F7714289B6651B1CEB01AEC5">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>by
redesignating subparagraphs (E), (F), and (G) as subparagraphs (F), (G), and
(H), respectively; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id5F515FEBB52C426CA673C9CB01104138">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>by
inserting after subparagraph (D) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC2E04B5CBF8C486AA518351B7DE5768A" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="ide3438898275f46ea97f0e26a9c185922">
<enum>(E)</enum>
<header>Ongoing
commissioning</header>
<text>The term <term>ongoing commissioning</term> means
an ongoing process of commissioning using monitored data, the primary goal of
which is to ensure continuous optimum performance of a facility, in accordance
with design or operating needs, over the useful life of the facility, while
meeting facility occupancy
requirements.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id013770BF29EE4735B036C5646933B22B">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>in paragraph (2),
by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA44E56FEBF2744E7AE1F1D7C6177AA9F" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="iddb093d8ae4234552b635c0aaa560a3f2">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<header>Energy
management system</header>
<text>An energy manager designated under subparagraph
(A) shall consider use of a system to manage energy use at the facility and
certification of the facility in accordance with the International Organization
for Standardization standard numbered 50001 and entitled <quote>Energy
Management
Systems</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idEBEA2086EBDA4297924FF315643507C6">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>by striking
paragraphs (3) and (4) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCD04FD1B9328420892C740D296BDDFAC" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id9b8c2ba8e3044d4f90d52e38b22be130">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Energy and
water evaluations and commissioning</header>
<subparagraph id="id5849117a6fc54bbbbb91ea7dbe2a4a21">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>Evaluations</header>
<text>Except
as provided in subparagraph (B), effective beginning on the date that is 180
days after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2014</short-title>, and annually thereafter, each energy manager shall
complete, for each calendar year, a comprehensive energy and water evaluation
and recommissioning or retrocommissioning for approximately 25 percent of the
facilities of each agency that meet the criteria under paragraph (2)(B) in a
manner that ensures that an evaluation of each facility is completed at least
once every 4 years.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id0e11a77d6f8b41f4973f02a1e36ed43f">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Exceptions</header>
<text>An
evaluation and recommissioning shall not be required under subparagraph (A)
with respect to a facility that—</text>
<clause id="id9046d4f24c8e4e258794aeb34c70f50b">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>has
had a comprehensive energy and water evaluation during the 8-year period
preceding the date of the evaluation;</text>
</clause><clause id="id9f85ac7e46ab436183b21b8b049bf5b4">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id9B0862D558394B74BF598445D38A44AC"><enum>(I)</enum>
<text>has been commissioned,
recommissioned, or retrocommissioned during the 10-year period preceding the
date of the evaluation; or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id2ABFF800885441638AD6D814C20B741C" indent="up1">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>is under ongoing commissioning;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="idae0eb911a86443129289ebee3d935810">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>has
not had a major change in function or use since the previous evaluation and
commissioning;</text>
</clause><clause id="id0431d0644e96429fa14640979643e3b5">
<enum>(iv)</enum>
<text>has
been benchmarked with public disclosure under paragraph (8) within the year
preceding the evaluation; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id2ccb02a814644c85a2f9a6fe2c2d5692">
<enum>(v)</enum>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idD0221B3C88714299B72C21F4546E4DAE"><enum>(I)</enum>
<text>based on the
benchmarking, has achieved at a facility level the most recent cumulative
energy savings target under subsection (a) compared to the earlier of—</text>
<item id="id5877B8D8B5BA445CBFA402588C7E3614" indent="up1">
<enum>(aa)</enum>
<text>the date of the most recent
evaluation; or</text>
</item><item id="idBC24EF1563DF415EAF250DC6D4234A4F" indent="up1">
<enum>(bb)</enum>
<text>the date—</text>
<subitem id="id09DA14933CE14CF3BCFF82B90725F915">
<enum>(AA)</enum>
<text>of the most recent commissioning,
recommissioning, or retrocommissioning; or</text>
</subitem><subitem id="id1F20BF9123A44943B8AA883424974551">
<enum>(BB)</enum>
<text>on which ongoing commissioning began;
or</text>
</subitem></item></subclause><subclause id="idFBA852C61DB147E88CDAEED8144435CC" indent="up1">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>has a long-term contract in place
guaranteeing energy savings at least as great as the energy savings target
under subclause (I).</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id97a4804537c84e3f8b63dc5991669dbd">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Implementation
of identified energy and water efficiency measures</header>
<subparagraph id="idcb911dc4c1234578b83f126605781ec1">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>Not later than 2 years after the date of completion of
each evaluation under paragraph (3), each energy manager may—</text>
<clause id="idf2349b925bcb4fce8ce0420c9ebc25c0">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>implement any
energy- or water-saving measure that the Federal agency identified in the
evaluation conducted under paragraph (3) that is life-cycle cost effective;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="id0d3e4a4c23f247b5b46aff913160cbad">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>bundle
individual measures of varying paybacks together into combined projects.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd4a43451ef8e495990209cd57a613a75">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Measures not
implemented</header>
<text>The energy manager shall, as part of the
certification system under paragraph (7), explain the reasons why any
life-cycle cost effective measures were not implemented under subparagraph (A)
using guidelines developed by the
Secretary.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id35D3718FEE8D4CD395993EA6C53CF4B6">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text>in paragraph
(7)(C), by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2D49F6B8646B4C2C9F2D6A68554409A8" style="OLC">
<clause id="id861f875c5472427fb5e5257466117c78">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<header>Summary
report</header>
<text>The Secretary shall make available a report that
summarizes the information tracked under subparagraph (B)(i) by each agency
and, as applicable, by each type of
measure.</text>
</clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="id501E64E203C544A386474D4882EC2775">
<enum>432.</enum>
<header>Federal
building energy efficiency performance standards; certification system and
level for green buildings</header>
<subsection id="id64CA5865754441C68ADC5682B5438E0A">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Definitions</header>
<text>Section
303 of the Energy Conservation and Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6832) (as amended by
section 101(a)) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id1A701DA5A6874DC29FE54B3CD0380B88">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>in
paragraph (6), by striking <quote>to be constructed</quote> and inserting
<quote>constructed or altered</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idA0D25299DFE448349D137EEC0988AC70">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by
adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAEC54FF7E41540BCB8A44D7AE9D178E1" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id3e1fdd275dc649148b685665e7493172">
<enum>(19)</enum>
<header>Major
renovation</header>
<text>The term <term>major renovation</term> means a
modification of building energy systems sufficiently extensive that the whole
building can meet energy standards for new buildings, based on criteria to be
established by the Secretary through notice and comment
rulemaking.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id87DED2DEB7E04534914C69FCCEA7FE9A">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Federal
Building Efficiency Standards</header>
<text>Section 305 of the Energy
Conservation and Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6834) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id5098DCB983A049E9BC3B36CCD294B8B4">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>in
subsection (a)(3)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id82204F912970491F877F8E3E95DD8FBC">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>by striking
<quote>(3)(A) Not later than</quote> and all that follows through subparagraph
(B) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF4093F7F97514C6ABBCAC59A82408D36" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id6ac1fc97956f429485caab1eb948dc6b">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Revised Federal
building energy efficiency performance standards; certification for green
buildings</header>
<subparagraph id="idED5BD5B44A0346CCBCE941CF50273515">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>Revised federal
building energy efficiency performance standards</header>
<clause id="id27D471AB5FE5463E90003361666019C4">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the
<short-title>Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2014</short-title>, the Secretary shall
establish, by rule, revised Federal building energy efficiency performance
standards that require that—</text>
<subclause id="idE78A962BAB634944A812982C947C4EB5">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>new Federal
buildings and alterations and additions to existing Federal buildings—</text>
<item id="id550215BC87644FFEAF5E63651714BF26">
<enum>(aa)</enum>
<text>meet
or exceed the most recent revision of the International Energy Conservation
Code (in the case of residential buildings) or ASHRAE Standard 90.1 (in the
case of commercial buildings) as of the date of enactment of the <short-title>Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2014</short-title>; and</text>
</item><item id="id4EEB92C813114D0BA06607448327F009">
<enum>(bb)</enum>
<text>meet
or exceed the energy provisions of State and local building codes applicable to
the building, if the codes are more stringent than the International Energy
Conservation Code or ASHRAE Standard 90.1, as applicable;</text>
</item></subclause><subclause id="idFE0670E7863941DCBE22FB725E884072">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>unless
demonstrated not to be life-cycle cost effective for new Federal buildings and
Federal buildings with major renovations—</text>
<item id="id26AE56C039434F4BB07736B51AFD9EFA">
<enum>(aa)</enum>
<text>the
buildings be designed to achieve energy consumption levels that are at least 30
percent below the levels established in the version of the ASHRAE Standard or
the International Energy Conservation Code, as appropriate, that is applied
under subclause (I)(aa), including updates under subparagraph (B); and</text>
</item><item id="id609154E570594820A6EFBC42165A9F57">
<enum>(bb)</enum>
<text>sustainable
design principles are applied to the location, siting, design, and construction
of all new Federal buildings and replacement Federal buildings;</text>
</item></subclause><subclause id="idB8C8EFD87BD146E1B06B6708AB01324B">
<enum>(III)</enum>
<text>if water is
used to achieve energy efficiency, water conservation technologies shall be
applied to the extent that the technologies are life-cycle cost effective;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="idCF013520FB484B35AE2484893B1C489E">
<enum>(IV)</enum>
<text>if life-cycle
cost effective, as compared to other reasonably available technologies, not
less than 30 percent of the hot water demand for each new Federal building or
Federal building undergoing a major renovation be met through the installation
and use of solar hot water heaters; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id2f10c58c0d084ff2afe1c89d212590d1">
<enum>(V)</enum>
<text>in addition to complying with the other requirements under this paragraph, unless found not to be
life-cycle cost effective, new Federal buildings that are at least 5,000
square feet in size shall comply with the Guiding Principles for
Sustainable New Construction and Major Renovations (as established in the
document entitled High Performance and Sustainable Buildings Guidance
(Final) and dated December 1, 2008).</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="id1EE3AF361CBE4332ADD920B18FC7D98B">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<header>Limitation</header>
<text>Clause
(i)(I) shall not apply to unaltered portions of existing Federal buildings and
systems that have been added to or
altered.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id0D6820E1607A4F2FB91077CEFDE872A1">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Updates</header>
<text>Not later than 1 year after the date of approval of each subsequent revision of the ASHRAE Standard
or the International Energy Conservation Code, as appropriate, the
Secretary shall determine whether the revised standards established under
subparagraph (A) should be updated to reflect the revisions, based on the
energy savings and life-cycle cost-effectiveness of the revisions.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE8B102ED512A4397A00773FBA09F1CE8">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>in subparagraph
(C), by striking <quote>(C) In the budget request</quote> and inserting the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCC47926A7FF04F8D835F3F8F728B8AED" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="id7FD10D4DDB8B482187EBF4C1F349D535">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<header>Budget
request</header>
<text>In the budget
request</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id814AC948F3F14441B823BCF5B4B70267">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>by striking subparagraph (D) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF0B0CD7CD1DE4F808EBBC088B14319FB" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="id69E9F9A4CB314682A1CC22C9A19372F9">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<header>Certification for green buildings</header>
<clause id="id7CB8CB57557549E2A4C49DB69DA022E2">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<header>Sustainable design principles</header>
<text>Sustainable design principles shall be applied to the
siting, design, and construction of buildings covered by this subparagraph.</text>
</clause><clause id="id8EF8FBCA6BBB40E1B81E43A6B164C5F4">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<header>Selection of
certification systems</header>
<text>The Secretary, after reviewing the findings
of the Federal Director under section 436(h) of the Energy Independence and
Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17092(h)), in consultation with the
Administrator of General Services, and in consultation with the Secretary of
Defense relating to those facilities under the custody and control of the
Department of Defense, shall determine those certification systems for green
commercial and residential buildings that the Secretary determines to be the
most likely to encourage a comprehensive and environmentally sound approach to
certification of green buildings.</text>
</clause><clause id="idB5F1E6A21ECE4C9780055274E7807E75">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<header>Basis for
selection</header>
<text>The determination of the certification systems under clause (ii) shall be
based on ongoing review of the findings of the Federal Director under section
436(h) of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17092(h))
and the criteria described in clause (v).</text>
</clause><clause id="idDB5874FA76E24778B19840AA22004D90">
<enum>(iv)</enum>
<header>Administration</header>
<text>In
determining certification systems under this subparagraph, the Secretary
shall—</text>
<subclause id="id94C67E5D94D44F0D924392DCA4F64AC8">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>make a separate
determination for all or part of each system;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id9663fd24be4944acaced49cd78bc4269">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>confirm that the
criteria used to support the selection of building products, materials, brands,
and technologies are fair and neutral (meaning that such criteria are based on
an objective assessment of relevant technical data), do not prohibit, disfavor,
or discriminate against selection based on technically inadequate information
to inform human or environmental risk, and are expressed to prefer performance
measures whenever performance measures may reasonably be used in lieu of
prescriptive measures; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="idcef68813cfd748e0a6a8afd5e7f8c02f">
<enum>(III)</enum>
<text>use
environmental and health criteria that are based on risk assessment methodology
that is generally accepted by the applicable scientific
disciplines.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="id0A1835A458AA46F3B848FF4635FAAED0">
<enum>(v)</enum>
<header>Considerations</header>
<text>In determining the green building certification systems under this subparagraph, the Secretary
shall take into consideration—</text>
<subclause id="id72C2A88408364F0BA7E25E6CC82830BA">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>the ability and availability of assessors and auditors to independently verify the criteria and
measurement of metrics at the scale necessary to implement this
subparagraph;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id5FC5F6EB6E2446AEA741488829A06B80">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>the ability of the applicable certification organization to collect and reflect public comment;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="idCA78F5E40EC04F539CC02607757BA3BC">
<enum>(III)</enum>
<text>the ability of the standard to be developed and revised through a consensus-based process;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="idF9F3490F08814A1489BFB32B6956A04C">
<enum>(IV)</enum>
<text>an evaluation of the robustness of the criteria for a high-performance green building, which shall
give credit for promoting—</text>
<item id="idAE1EA772262B43C1A5AEE69AEEE6F7AE">
<enum>(aa)</enum>
<text>efficient and sustainable use of water, energy, and other natural resources;</text>
</item><item id="id48EA3430D9DA403B81577757054637FF">
<enum>(bb)</enum>
<text>use of renewable energy sources;</text>
</item><item id="id06A0D1A6C18F4A54BDC1164AAAB7DE61">
<enum>(cc)</enum>
<text>improved indoor environmental quality through enhanced indoor air quality, thermal comfort,
acoustics, day lighting, pollutant source control, and use of low-emission
materials and building system controls; and</text>
</item><item id="id14500D2EC4924E4481B2C8B76BB0D136">
<enum>(dd)</enum>
<text>such other criteria as the Secretary determines to be appropriate; and</text>
</item></subclause><subclause id="id2103B7804F61490089F1C08B68533EC6">
<enum>(V)</enum>
<text>national recognition within the building industry.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="idBD366031A42D46A1841AEA25160C4EA6">
<enum>(vi)</enum>
<header>Review</header>
<text>The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of General Services and the Secretary of
Defense, shall conduct an ongoing review to evaluate and compare private
sector green building certification systems, taking into account—</text>
<subclause id="id720A8758E1E747A8AE317FFC45064F4C">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>the criteria described in clause (v); and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id8C3F265B6B7242B384F77E6C458BECB9">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>the identification made by the Federal Director under section 436(h) of the Energy Independence and
Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17092(h)).</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="id65A56091E9A6419C9B0B052679A1CA13">
<enum>(vii)</enum>
<header>Exclusions</header>
<subclause id="id4F562E03342D442FB8AF331551C93D52">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<header>In general</header>
<text>Subject to subclause (II), if a certification system fails to meet the review requirements of
clause (v), the Secretary shall—</text>
<item id="id16C19B745F014F86889407505D24025D">
<enum>(aa)</enum>
<text>identify the portions of the system, whether prerequisites, credits, points, or otherwise, that
meet the review criteria of clause (v);</text>
</item><item id="id050D362B603C49368ED7425E66A6FAF2">
<enum>(bb)</enum>
<text>determine the portions of the system that are suitable for use; and</text>
</item><item id="id29A120AED3A2468FBB8B47B4CE1FA8ED">
<enum>(cc)</enum>
<text>exclude all other portions of the system from identification and use.</text>
</item></subclause><subclause id="id864CD53716B54546958A57070EC90163">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<header>Entire systems</header>
<text>The Secretary shall exclude an entire system from use if an exclusion under subclause (I)—</text>
<item id="idDDCD6B3F5E80444C80EDB98BE7ED4545">
<enum>(aa)</enum>
<text>impedes the integrated use of the system;</text>
</item><item id="idCEDF3574BD1B4022A95DE2A2AF56334E">
<enum>(bb)</enum>
<text>creates disparate review criteria or unequal point access for competing materials; or</text>
</item><item id="id803253705B204EACAEEBB51F7F4C73C6">
<enum>(cc)</enum>
<text>increases agency costs of the use.</text>
</item></subclause></clause><clause id="id0A6E421E1186468B82F7AB003C919101">
<enum>(viii)</enum>
<header>Internal certification processes</header>
<text>The Secretary may by rule allow Federal agencies to develop internal certification processes, using
certified professionals, in lieu of certification by certification
entities identified under clause (ii).</text>
</clause><clause id="id779FFA45DAC542C887DBE7942FECC27A">
<enum>(ix)</enum>
<header>Privatized military housing</header>
<text>With respect to privatized military housing, the Secretary of Defense, after consultation with the
Secretary may, through rulemaking, develop
alternative certification systems and levels than the systems and levels
identified under clause (ii) that achieve an equivalent result in terms
of energy savings, sustainable design, and green building performance.</text>
</clause><clause id="id2FB833738D0F4B4185E6F00EBA185630">
<enum>(x)</enum>
<header>Water conservation technologies</header>
<text>In addition to any use of water conservation technologies otherwise required by this section, water
conservation technologies shall be applied to the extent that the
technologies are life-cycle cost-effective.</text>
</clause><clause id="id0239CD1B59AF4E3CBCCD567340ADF5E6">
<enum>(xi)</enum>
<header>Effective date</header>
<subclause id="id6478F2EBDA7E46D3848D28F133BB78C3">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<header>Determinations made after December 31, 2015</header>
<text>The amendments made by section 432(b)(1)(C) of the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness
Act of 2014 shall apply to any determination made by a Federal agency
after December 31, 2015.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id6B3040F671134E14A26F5FC7609D9038">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<header>Determinations made on or before December 31, 2015</header>
<text>This subparagraph (as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of the Energy Savings and
Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2014) shall apply to any use of a
certification system for green commercial and residential buildings by a
Federal agency on or before December 31, 2015.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id41F566BC5CCF4A84A578C3C15CD3136B">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by
striking subsections (c) and (d) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6368384EA8A949C8A6C1AF75C15B7E41" style="OLC">
<subsection id="id1F615C09AAB841B3B99436EA3ADC713E">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Periodic
review</header>
<text>The Secretary shall—</text>
<paragraph id="id826605F18DFF4ECBA71D6484387A5216">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text>once every 5
years, review the Federal building energy standards established under this
section; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id008B8DA129674555BFE2E70AAA2A0556">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>on
completion of a review under paragraph (1), if the Secretary
determines that significant energy savings would
result, upgrade the standards to include
all new energy efficiency and renewable energy measures that are
technologically feasible and economically justified.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id520CA6635EB6446EBAC1D8B6F4273655">
<enum>433.</enum>
<header>Enhanced
energy efficiency underwriting</header>
<subsection id="id3856a484eb744b5fb3d402fbcbd2b36c">
<enum>(a)</enum>
<header>Definitions</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text>
<paragraph id="idB7D79B6818624653A0A9FC63E9BB3DFD">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Covered
agency</header>
<text>The term <term>covered agency</term>—</text>
<subparagraph id="idD72182047F1C4374ADE2D18F5CD4AFBE">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">means—</text>
<clause id="id44D81C20133D44FDBDD0551785F57187">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an executive agency, as that term is
defined in section 102 of title 31, United States Code; and</text>
</clause><clause id="idCBB9F9213CCD4D7984204FCE39D17DD7">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any other agency of the Federal Government;
and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id5FCE7D2452FA4CAA8DA575A8BBE1A193">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes any enterprise, as that term is
defined under section 1303 of the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety
and Soundness Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 4502).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idE8785055A0D0444A95F2F662411F17AF">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Covered
loan</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>covered
loan</term> means a loan secured by a home that is issued, insured, purchased,
or securitized by a covered agency.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id9748FDF1DDF1487E85E9C3E26E4F44EB">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Homeowner</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>homeowner</term> means the
mortgagor under a covered loan.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idA25C478A9DD34354BA80E3C99CBD8814">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Mortgagee</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>mortgagee</term>
means—</text>
<subparagraph id="id6C1ACBC729B64CC980DD3278E03C7BAC">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an original lender under a covered loan or
the holder of a covered loan at the time at which that mortgage transaction is
consummated;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id391E6E16241E4CD5993823F00FBE3C4C">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any affiliate, agent, subsidiary,
successor, or assignee of an original lender under a covered loan or the holder
of a covered loan at the time at which that mortgage transaction is
consummated;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id056A92BCE207435C9BD307E3B5895E47">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any servicer of a covered loan; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE5B03CF8A3C94B658E8425C3CED42A00">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any subsequent purchaser, trustee, or
transferee of any covered loan issued by an original lender.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id5B0B03ACEC3C4910862ECC7E8D1BB28D">
<enum>(5)</enum>
<header>Secretary</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Secretary</term> means the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id1AC8A333BAAD44C288F12B0776C6EC46">
<enum>(6)</enum>
<header>Servicer</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>servicer</term> means the
person or entity responsible for the servicing of a covered loan, including the
person or entity who makes or holds a covered loan if that person or entity
also services the covered loan.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id04151DF27041410F8DF6EA9E84DDD35F">
<enum>(7)</enum>
<header>Servicing</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>servicing</term> has the
meaning given the term in section 6(i) of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures
Act of 1974 (12 U.S.C. 2605(i)).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id87623080852B40C6A5A0354D1A0548A1">
<enum>(b)</enum>
<header>Findings and
purposes</header>
<paragraph id="idC39C624B9D96453BAE629379C25A8584">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>Findings</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Congress finds that—</text>
<subparagraph id="id4EDE317BC52743D78E476824867DC032">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">energy costs for homeowners are a
significant and increasing portion of their household budgets;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE5D0B2691734498CA0421211356ECAB1">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">household energy use can vary substantially
depending on the efficiency and characteristics of the house;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE14B471C2459469599991FCF521AC29C">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">expected energy cost savings are important
to the value of the house;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idC98EE9A7D477480487447DED0A403F5B">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the current test for loan affordability
used by most covered agencies, commonly known as the
<term>debt-to-income</term> test, is inadequate because it does not take into
account the expected energy cost savings for the homeowner of an energy
efficient home; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id31F9C72E355A40E88D16E87ADC600F7F">
<enum>(E)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">another loan limitation, commonly known as
the <term>loan-to-value</term> test, is tied to the appraisal, which often does
not adjust for efficiency features of houses.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idC62CC749A07949859EA1094F1193E1D7">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Purposes</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The purposes of this section are to—</text>
<subparagraph id="idAE93941039D7462F97AE39EBACA0779D">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">improve the accuracy of mortgage
underwriting by Federal mortgage agencies by ensuring that energy cost savings
are included in the underwriting process as described below, and thus to reduce
the amount of energy consumed by homes and to facilitate the creation of energy
efficiency retrofit and construction jobs;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id12521B3F3A9545159C354FA3CE43795B">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">require a covered agency to include the
expected energy cost savings of a homeowner as a regular expense in the tests,
such as the debt-to-income test, used to determine the ability of the loan
applicant to afford the cost of homeownership for all loan programs; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id747DDB4CCB4D4E6D86DEA809BA814361">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">require a covered agency to include the
value home buyers place on the energy efficiency of a house in tests used to
compare the mortgage amount to home value, taking precautions to avoid
double-counting and to support safe and sound lending.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id09190967AD644C429C9990B46F1B9537">
<enum>(c)</enum>
<header>Enhanced energy
efficiency underwriting criteria</header>
<paragraph id="id8C62286D98884FE994215F57B28779D9">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall, in consultation
with the advisory group established in subsection (f)(2), develop and issue
guidelines for a covered agency to implement enhanced loan eligibility
requirements, for use when testing the ability of a loan applicant to repay a
covered loan, that account for the expected energy cost savings for a loan
applicant at a subject property, in the manner set forth in paragraphs (2) and
(3).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id3C93949EAEC94853931BF2E29C4871E3">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Requirements To
account for energy cost savings</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The enhanced loan eligibility requirements
under paragraph (1) shall require that, for all covered loans for which an
energy efficiency report is voluntarily provided to the mortgagee by the
mortgagor, the covered agency and the mortgagee shall take into consideration
the estimated energy cost savings expected for the owner of the subject
property in determining whether the loan applicant has sufficient income to
service the mortgage debt plus other regular expenses. To the extent that a
covered agency uses a test such as a debt-to-income test that includes certain
regular expenses, such as hazard insurance and property taxes, the expected
energy cost savings shall be included as an offset to these expenses. Energy
costs to be assessed include the cost of electricity, natural gas, oil, and any
other fuel regularly used to supply energy to the subject property.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id4A7D5EF4446F49EAA9C28052536DE907">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Determination
of estimated energy cost savings</header>
<subparagraph id="idE888D97B1769477EA98F4A29F354A1CB">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The guidelines to be
issued under paragraph (1) shall include instructions for the covered agency to
calculate estimated energy cost savings using—</text>
<clause id="ide2d43da7aa694ef7b2ac20cbbc57997b">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>the
energy efficiency report;</text>
</clause><clause id="idd7df0e4b57934f82af3908a5e5fd4ff9">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>an
estimate of baseline average energy costs; and</text>
</clause><clause id="idf2d9b3a2ddcd4274912f2c582c30df88">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>additional
sources of information as determined by the Secretary.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idf995779bc6784486ab5121bcea3d3f53">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Report
requirements</header>
<text>For the purposes of subparagraph (A), an energy
efficiency report shall—</text>
<clause id="id75e63488b32d4bb6b27fd07a8203f0ac">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>estimate the
expected energy cost savings specific to the subject property, based on
specific information about the property;</text>
</clause><clause id="id1c13dca4b0974e8aba244a2c8965d967">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>be
prepared in accordance with the guidelines to be issued under paragraph (1);
and</text>
</clause><clause id="id19b3c4ca494948eab524edca6794e554">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>be
prepared—</text>
<subclause id="id2c826c910fcd42cfa420d6152f4f7d47">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>in
accordance with the Residential Energy Service Network’s Home Energy Rating
System (commonly known as <term>HERS</term>) by an individual certified by the
Residential Energy Service Network, unless the Secretary finds that the use of
HERS does not further the purposes of this section; or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id57a3b218d89f4f0b93adb9e6d9c0e05c">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>by
other methods approved by the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of
Energy and the advisory group established in subsection (f)(2), for use under
this section, which shall include a third-party quality assurance
procedure.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id71fb5d3e4e424713916eadc7b629c109">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<header>Use by
appraiser</header>
<text>If an energy efficiency report is used under paragraph
(2), the energy efficiency report shall be provided to the appraiser to
estimate the energy efficiency of the subject property and for potential
adjustments for energy efficiency.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id553a645a3001437ca09d2f3d15fbfa01">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Required
disclosure to consumer for a home with an energy efficiency
report</header>
<text>If an energy efficiency report is used under paragraph
(2), the guidelines to be issued under paragraph (1) shall require the
mortgagee to—</text>
<subparagraph id="id2441f7204bb94f04bca0138ba7fec2c6">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>inform the loan
applicant of the expected energy costs as estimated in the energy efficiency
report, in a manner and at a time as prescribed by the Secretary, and if
practicable, in the documents delivered at the time of loan application;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id24a36f0746b84d329bef99f4ccf80536">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>include the
energy efficiency report in the documentation for the loan provided to the
borrower.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id057c3f373d104956a39671bd466c4480">
<enum>(5)</enum>
<header>Required
disclosure to consumer for a home without an energy efficiency
report</header>
<text>If an energy efficiency report is not used under paragraph
(2), the guidelines to be issued under paragraph (1) shall require the
mortgagee to inform the loan applicant in a manner and at a time as prescribed
by the Secretary, and if practicable, in the documents delivered at the time of
loan application of—</text>
<subparagraph id="id262161f0cf7f4c9a9a64b20bcf0b5d6b">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>typical energy
cost savings that would be possible from a cost-effective energy upgrade of a
home of the size and in the region of the subject property;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id8d5fa926555540e2ad8168acd9c1fcec">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>the impact the
typical energy cost savings would have on monthly ownership costs of a typical
home;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9f6d9f0f9364459387c8da0066f38aa7">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>the impact on the
size of a mortgage that could be obtained if the typical energy cost savings
were reflected in an energy efficiency report; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id68ab83022d9a46a7a92da9a4e718cbd0">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text>resources for
improving the energy efficiency of a home.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idece603ab333d42699fd0fe33cfdc7f05">
<enum>(6)</enum>
<header>Pricing of
loans</header>
<subparagraph id="id7b40836c2dcf41559c869e32fd181932">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>A covered agency may price covered loans originated under
the enhanced loan eligibility requirements required under this section in
accordance with the estimated risk of the loans.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id898D6A33DB36485B9FDD1389B4F8C8CB">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Imposition of
certain material costs, impediments, or penalties</header>
<text>In the absence
of a publicly disclosed analysis that demonstrates significant additional
default risk or prepayment risk associated with the loans, a covered agency
shall not impose material costs, impediments, or penalties on covered loans
merely because the loan uses an energy efficiency report or the enhanced loan
eligibility requirements required under this section.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id6C6B04FE1EBC4B6F94B30F32E6CF81A5">
<enum>(7)</enum>
<header>Limitations</header>
<subparagraph id="id8056fee67939454581dda802c38260ff">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>In general</header>
<text>A covered agency may price covered loans originated under the enhanced loan eligibility
requirements required under this section in accordance with the estimated
risk of those loans.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id12E4D11AC08049589D9BCAFFA83EC014">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Prohibited actions</header>
<text>A
covered agency shall not—</text>
<clause id="id4cd0758536334c4e8685c846954612a8">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>modify existing
underwriting criteria or adopt new underwriting criteria that intentionally
negate or reduce the impact of the requirements or resulting benefits that are
set forth or otherwise derived from the enhanced loan eligibility requirements
required under this subsection; or</text>
</clause><clause id="idf401817be56349c9a838e247c00a85ae">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>impose greater
buy back requirements, credit overlays, or insurance requirements, including
private mortgage insurance, on covered loans merely because the loan uses an
energy efficiency report or the enhanced loan eligibility requirements required
under this subsection.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id3387113d9ed64909a6323652c0fc26d8">
<enum>(8)</enum>
<header>Applicability
and implementation date</header>
<text>Not later than 3 years after the date of
enactment of this Act, and before December 31, 2016, the enhanced loan
eligibility requirements required under this subsection shall be implemented by
each covered agency to—</text>
<subparagraph id="idc03bc0d7767442ffb7859f8c709329dd">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>apply to any
covered loan for the sale, or refinancing of any loan for the sale, of any
home;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="iddfb3ca11dcf04af9851ce82d964f3a97">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>be available on
any residential real property (including individual units of condominiums and
cooperatives) that qualifies for a covered loan; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ide45c85feed214ea7a5944a7247a4e7be">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>provide
prospective mortgagees with sufficient guidance and applicable tools to
implement the required underwriting methods.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idc4f1efc8b0f947b5b338cba8a3bbf397">
<enum>(d)</enum>
<header>Enhanced energy
efficiency underwriting valuation guidelines</header>
<paragraph id="id6e448e2533ea405a85484322f7a969ef">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this
Act, the Secretary shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="idF66F1F9F1B0A4462B225AB35BA2EA1D5">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>in consultation
with the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council and the advisory
group established in subsection (f)(2), develop and issue guidelines for a
covered agency to determine the maximum permitted loan amount based on the
value of the property for all covered loans made on properties with an energy
efficiency report that meets the requirements of subsection (c)(3)(B);
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idA947308D32464FD992BB728F92D42E34">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>in consultation
with the Secretary of Energy, issue guidelines for a covered agency to
determine the estimated energy savings under paragraph (3) for properties with
an energy efficiency report.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idD2F592521DAE4257832FA2C1F33E64A5">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Requirements</header>
<text>The
enhanced energy efficiency underwriting valuation guidelines required under
paragraph (1) shall include—</text>
<subparagraph id="id5485c232ffbd4a80937fc48463dd75e9">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>a
requirement that if an energy efficiency report that meets the requirements of
subsection (c)(3)(B) is voluntarily provided to the mortgagee, such report
shall be used by the mortgagee or covered agency to determine the estimated
energy savings of the subject property; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idd57da94fae3947e688bd10260e2a964c">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>a
requirement that the estimated energy savings of the subject property be added
to the appraised value of the subject property by a mortgagee or covered agency
for the purpose of determining the loan-to-value ratio of the subject property,
unless the appraisal includes the value of the overall energy efficiency of the
subject property, using methods to be established under the guidelines issued
under paragraph (1).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id466b385d14a545f791eede75f1a8c513">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<header>Determination
of estimated energy savings</header>
<subparagraph id="idA55339AA8EF344CE9FBFF83B3A16F8AB">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>Amount of
energy savings</header>
<text>The amount of estimated energy savings shall be
determined by calculating the difference between the estimated energy costs for
the average comparable houses, as determined in guidelines to be issued under
paragraph (1), and the estimated energy costs for the subject property based
upon the energy efficiency report.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id3BE9F0EFD1494EB8BEFD06F675F807BF">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Duration of
energy savings</header>
<text>The duration of the estimated energy savings shall
be based upon the estimated life of the applicable equipment, consistent with
the rating system used to produce the energy efficiency report.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id1B435BE8F01343B9B56E2DB2A9C4B4E8">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<header>Present value
of energy savings</header>
<text>The present value of the future savings shall
be discounted using the average interest rate on conventional 30-year
mortgages, in the manner directed by guidelines issued under paragraph
(1).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idc361b86d9207435bb8b5abe430111bcf">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<header>Ensuring
consideration of energy efficient features</header>
<text>Section 1110 of the
Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (12 U.S.C.
3339) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="idcf477bafb65c4cd48ca45fa8440ad7c3">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>; and</quote> and inserting a semicolon; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idFAB66AD83A7D4C5FB0ADB10033EFAD01">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>in paragraph (3),
by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote> and
inserting after paragraph (3) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1D5CC14203CF44AF88952E04973F7C21" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id97a0664822724b91b07bf613bcec77a8">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<text>that State
certified and licensed appraisers have timely access, whenever practicable, to
information from the property owner and the lender that may be relevant in
developing an opinion of value regarding the energy- and water-saving
improvements or features of a property, such as—</text>
<subparagraph id="id9072F53E2DCC49A8995A00DAA9F34C33">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>labels or ratings
of buildings;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idD7C600DFCF9E44C99A486B99F70BCE08">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>installed
appliances, measures, systems or technologies;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id4282FE8531D84694A802B953C5CB3ABD">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>blueprints;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idD7FAF7BC6D64498BA4D32DCD1D3485C6">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text>construction
costs;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id88F37A4A62794B289CDAB180DBF6BF02">
<enum>(E)</enum>
<text>financial or
other incentives regarding energy- and water-efficient components and systems
installed in a property;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6AA5C9F1FE5C4CFD984847D0CAB5621B">
<enum>(F)</enum>
<text>utility
bills;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id4CFA0153C32B4F86B2896B28E9111B64">
<enum>(G)</enum>
<text>energy
consumption and benchmarking data; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id37D430F0B44F4A888DFDE47882D96B12">
<enum>(H)</enum>
<text>third-party
verifications or representations of energy and water efficiency performance of
a property, observing all financial privacy requirements adhered to by
certified and licensed appraisers, including section 501 of the
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (15 U.S.C. 6801).</text>
</subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">Unless a
property owner consents to a lender, an appraiser, in carrying out the
requirements of paragraph (4), shall not have access to the commercial or
financial information of the owner that is privileged or
confidential.</continuation-text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id8DC6F84F094C4E2BB40B3AA50EE76573">
<enum>(5)</enum>
<header>Transactions
requiring state certified appraisers</header>
<text>Section 1113 of the
Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (12 U.S.C.
3342) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="id2100e52216dc4c3387ac451739091c30">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>in paragraph (1),
by inserting before the semicolon the following: <quote>, or any real property
on which the appraiser makes adjustments using an energy efficiency
report</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id02e85c42e8114e0e851d19607c463bb7">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>in paragraph (2),
by inserting after <quote>atypical</quote> the following: <quote>, or an
appraisal on which the appraiser makes adjustments using an energy efficiency
report.</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idd2be2f11fd454edb97421fdd8222ff96">
<enum>(6)</enum>
<header>Protections</header>
<subparagraph id="id1c1ed0b834bf48188a229c12d16e7cf7">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>Authority To
impose limitations</header>
<text>The guidelines to be issued under paragraph
(1) shall include such limitations and conditions as determined by the
Secretary to be necessary to protect against meaningful under or over valuation
of energy cost savings or duplicative counting of energy efficiency features or
energy cost savings in the valuation of any subject property that is used to
determine a loan amount.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id216c76858bbd402b80408f747464b4bf">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Additional
authority</header>
<text>At the end of the 7-year period following the
implementation of enhanced eligibility and underwriting valuation requirements
under this section, the Secretary may modify or apply additional exceptions to
the approach described in paragraph (2), where the Secretary finds that the
unadjusted appraisal will reflect an accurate market value of the efficiency of
the subject property or that a modified approach will better reflect an
accurate market value.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="iddc97c9cf0bac4b929ea295f6a220a2ad">
<enum>(7)</enum>
<header>Applicability
and implementation date</header>
<text>Not later than 3 years after the date of
enactment of this Act, and before December 31, 2016, each covered agency shall
implement the guidelines required under this subsection, which shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="id72397681E55349C782174B92BA5D97D7">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>apply to any
covered loan for the sale, or refinancing of any loan for the sale, of any
home; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idbdc966a2500247c08565e822f992149b">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>be available on
any residential real property, including individual units of condominiums and
cooperatives, that qualifies for a covered loan.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id221e345b154c4c409fa772f8265016cd">
<enum>(e)</enum>
<header>Monitoring</header>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date on
which the enhanced eligibility and underwriting valuation requirements are
implemented under this section, and every year thereafter, each covered agency
with relevant activity shall issue and make available to the public a report
that—</text>
<paragraph id="idDE77A78C1BE24F44BAF06F2366827D78">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">enumerates the number of covered loans of
the agency for which there was an energy efficiency report, and that used
energy efficiency appraisal guidelines and enhanced loan eligibility
requirements;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id38F5817EBD164A16BB5876C3FD96BA55">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes the default rates and rates of
foreclosures for each category of loans; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id33d3af995ef349eeaedff4d58f20be05">
<enum>(3)</enum>
<text>describes the
risk premium, if any, that the agency has priced into covered loans for which
there was an energy efficiency report.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id02e0b0b95e1549659629d0f84565691e">
<enum>(f)</enum>
<header>Rulemaking</header>
<paragraph id="id7f361c29400a4a5a8bda5d7c77f669dd">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>The Secretary shall prescribe regulations to carry out
this section, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy and the advisory
group established in paragraph (2), which may contain such classifications,
differentiations, or other provisions, and may provide for such proper
implementation and appropriate treatment of different types of transactions, as
the Secretary determines are necessary or proper to effectuate the purposes of
this section, to prevent circumvention or evasion thereof, or to facilitate
compliance therewith.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idb657c33b310f496a91be387e4cc9f801">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Advisory
group</header>
<text>To assist in carrying out this section, the Secretary shall
establish an advisory group, consisting of individuals representing the
interests of—</text>
<subparagraph id="id991FFB06440A4CC992BCCCFA6E7DED21">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<text>mortgage
lenders;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idBCBCF663A97E458280820AEC5A9E43FC">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<text>appraisers;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idEFE4175566A843DC8393FAA3576FAFC9">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<text>energy raters and
residential energy consumption experts;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE28414B9C3DA4E0BBC8BCDED6D10DCC4">
<enum>(D)</enum>
<text>energy efficiency
organizations;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idAE20092162324D74813235D8C63813D7">
<enum>(E)</enum>
<text>real estate
agents;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idD3CC7AA5DC494256ACDC50D5BBF18BF7">
<enum>(F)</enum>
<text>home builders and
remodelers;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6AC6E25DF7B348B0824675CA3812DCD4">
<enum>(G)</enum>
<text>State energy
officials; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idB0C95BEEDBFE4D81AC06F7E4CC89CB20">
<enum>(H)</enum>
<text>others as
determined by the Secretary.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idb17bfa4bce21444db49987e7f711bae3">
<enum>(g)</enum>
<header>Additional
study</header>
<paragraph id="idCF0EB6E3544842029DB3639271F66EBE">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<header>In
general</header>
<text>Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of
this Act, the Secretary shall reconvene the advisory group established in
subsection (f)(2), in addition to water and locational efficiency experts, to
advise the Secretary on the implementation of the enhanced energy efficiency
underwriting criteria established in subsections (c) and (d).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id34D612B0B47041F7AD41AAF8823CB00A">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<header>Recommendations</header>
<text>The
advisory group established in subsection (f)(2) shall provide recommendations
to the Secretary on any revisions or additions to the enhanced energy
efficiency underwriting criteria deemed necessary by the group, which may
include alternate methods to better account for home energy costs and
additional factors to account for substantial and regular costs of
homeownership such as location-based transportation costs and water costs. The
Secretary shall forward any legislative recommendations from the advisory group
to Congress for its consideration.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="id5A242863B55C40E6B107471544947D1E" style="OLC">
<enum>E</enum>
<header>Third party testing</header>
<section id="id8c5b5f56225d4f789df4f1542c97e4fa">
<enum>441.</enum>
<header>Voluntary certification programs for air conditioning, furnace, boiler, heat pump, and water heater
products</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 326(b) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6296(b)) is amended by adding
at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb336e38c8ba242f9a79a350cdc2f3744" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id254ac68b7e794ee69adeb1be0c8fbfa2">
<enum>(6)</enum>
<header>Voluntary certification programs for air conditioning, furnace, boiler, heat pump, and water heater
products</header>
<subparagraph id="idAD263B541D184B2682429CDF0C8D39CA">
<enum>(A)</enum>
<header>Definition of basic model group</header>
<text>In this paragraph, the term <quote>basic model group</quote> means a set of models—</text>
<clause id="idDE46DD072BA24245B588FC04BBCCC0AC">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>that share characteristics that allow the performance of 1 model to be generally representative of
the performance of other models within the group; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id3D5DF7C9AED74C4D96D3F564CD29D55F">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>in which the group of products does not necessarily have to share discrete performance.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ide4090a533da74ebb9e711886958a6214">
<enum>(B)</enum>
<header>Reliance on voluntary certification programs</header>
<text>For the purpose of testing to verify the performance rating of, or receiving test reports from
manufacturers certifying compliance with energy conservation standards and
Energy Star specifications established under sections 324A, 325, and 342,
the covered products described in paragraphs (3), (4), (5), (9), and (11)
of section 322(a) and covered equipment described in subparagraphs (B),
(C), (D), (F), (I), (J), and (K) of section 340(1), the Secretary and
Administrator shall rely on voluntary certification programs that—</text>
<clause id="id55448428518a48448709e6d4b9254ba6">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<text>are nationally recognized;</text>
</clause><clause id="idb8524cc7dcbb4f13b5291301a813ba40">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<text>maintain a publicly available list of all certified products and equipment;</text>
</clause><clause id="id4865993237e14b30b1b1ca44e76a8134">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<text>as determined by the Secretary, annually test not less than 10 percent and not more than 30 percent
of the basic model group of a program participant</text>
</clause><clause id="id1989d2b908be4eec84349fea5a2ca622">
<enum>(iv)</enum>
<text>require the changing of the performance rating or removal of the product or equipment from the
program, if verification testing determines that the performance rating
does not meet the levels the manufacturer has certified to the Secretary;</text>
</clause><clause id="id3c559a9dabfa4aaa85736cd2df3096f2">
<enum>(v)</enum>
<text>require the qualification of new participants in the program through testing and production of test
reports;</text>
</clause><clause id="id4e350b475045443981a3de8dbaac9c30">
<enum>(vi)</enum>
<text>allow for challenge testing of products and equipment within the scope of the program;</text>
</clause><clause id="id9ab175ed44b244a3bf3b2779afae3edc">
<enum>(vii)</enum>
<text>require program participants to certify the performance rating of all covered products and
equipment within the scope of the program;</text>
</clause><clause id="idcb25becaaa9146c3ba198e828ff36d1c">
<enum>(viii)</enum>
<text>are conducted by a certification body that is accredited under International Organization for
Standardization/ International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC)
Standard 17065;</text>
</clause><clause id="id7fc5deb519c6456487023e72f87b16cd">
<enum>(ix)</enum>
<text>provide to the Secretary—</text>
<subclause id="idca47678d27d4432dac80964e50b9280b">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>an annual report of all test results;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id3e862cda0002427d81305a22de9079a9">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>prompt notification when program testing results in—</text>
<item id="idA2E1F7ADB04E4F1889F07409F2E0AF7D">
<enum>(aa)</enum>
<text>the rerating of the performance rating of a product or equipment; or</text>
</item><item id="idA120CA220F6149FB92FAFE05B211BEB5">
<enum>(bb)</enum>
<text>the delisting of a product or equipment; and</text>
</item></subclause><subclause id="idc6513cdd21ce4defb6d7a9af0fdeb46a">
<enum>(III)</enum>
<text>test reports, on the request of the Secretary or the Administrator, for Energy Star compliant
products, which shall be treated as confidential business information as
provided for under section 552(b)(4) of title 5, United States Code
(commonly known as the “Freedom of Information Act”);</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="id41a35250c61143d28a84e4ba3072526b">
<enum>(x)</enum>
<text>use verification testing that—</text>
<subclause id="idca4511ff11364147aa38001b7aa6baff">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>is conducted by an independent test laboratory that is accredited under International Organization
for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC)
Standard 17025 with a scope covering the tested products or equipment;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="ide241a13e216e4dd9970c4f69f6e1c129">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>follows the test procedures established under this title; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id1edbc11139804ed3878fa74156c91844">
<enum>(III)</enum>
<text>notes in each test report any instructions specified by the manufacturer or the representative of
the manufacturer for the purpose of conducting the verification testing;
and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="id3937a0e511e446e8a17542f3294394eb">
<enum>(xi)</enum>
<text>satisfy such other requirements as the Secretary has determined—</text>
<subclause id="idd221d084667941dfa62b024865e35fb3">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>are essential to ensure standards compliance; or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="idaeb1424b3c294ab0ad7e9effa6bed34b">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>have consensus support achieved through a negotiated rulemaking process.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id86c85f2e922c456a9a8d40e3ca34b61e">
<enum>(C)</enum>
<header>Administration</header>
<clause id="id91f52914c1df4344a13246bdcb373a3c">
<enum>(i)</enum>
<header>In general</header>
<text>The Secretary shall not require—</text>
<subclause id="ide434be16a76443bf8fa090bca8ec6e48">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>manufacturers to participate in a voluntary certification program described in subparagraph (B); or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id9ff6f8b0a6e14a5e97600f206aa57904">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>participating manufacturers to provide information that can be obtained through a voluntary
certification program described in subparagraph (B).</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="id394fc4e2389c4d1f8352b6361877da46">
<enum>(ii)</enum>
<header>List of covered products</header>
<text>The Secretary or the Administrator may maintain a publicly available list of covered products and
equipment certified under a program described in subparagraph (B) that
distinguishes between—</text>
<subclause id="idFE92D715593844638C88C80A9F610984">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>covered products and equipment verified by the program; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="idE232169E78654C07A31B32B941A951F1">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>products not verified by the program.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="idc28e88b1c20b4367857d17430239388f">
<enum>(iii)</enum>
<header>Reduction of requirements</header>
<text>Any rules promulgated by the Secretary that require testing of products or equipment for
certification of performance ratings shall on average reduce requirements
and burdens for manufacturers participating in a voluntary certification
program described in subparagraph (B) for the products or equipment
relative to other manufacturers.</text>
</clause><clause id="id0e4812ac1a1e494691fe67d7807f5c4a">
<enum>(iv)</enum>
<header>Periodic testing by program nonparticipants</header>
<text>In addition to certification requirements, the Secretary shall require a manufacturer that does not
participate in a voluntary certification program described in subparagraph
(B)—</text>
<subclause id="idcb5e448a91af48a7aa45c87730240cdd">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<text>to verify the accuracy of the performance rating of the product or equipment through periodic
testing using the testing methods described in clause (iii) or (x) of
subparagraph (B); and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="idd0e77022fce947a79d1be31502184523">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<text>to provide to the Secretary test results and, on request, test reports verifying the certified
performance for each basic model group of the manufacturer.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="id954e368fc1a849319afd70c470cf4325">
<enum>(v)</enum>
<header>Restrictions on test laboratories</header>
<subclause id="id458070181ef748ed8f6925ccc4636f72">
<enum>(I)</enum>
<header>In general</header>
<text>Subject to subclause (II), with respect to covered products and equipment, a voluntary
certification program described in subparagraph (B) shall not be a test
laboratory that conducts the testing on products or equipment within the
scope of the program.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id7b557e6cb62141f3a615631953ad542b">
<enum>(II)</enum>
<header>Limitation</header>
<text>Subclause (I) shall not apply to Energy Star specifications established under section 324A.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="ide9000ab7a1424083b263011efcd3ffcd">
<enum>(vi)</enum>
<header>Effect on other authority</header>
<text>Nothing in this paragraph limits the authority of the Secretary or the Administrator to test
products or equipment or to enforce compliance with any law (including
regulations).</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section></subtitle>
<enum>V</enum>
<header>Miscellaneous</header>
<section id="id40E5A3AF0E0042FF8AE54C7F2B835814">
<enum>501.</enum>
<header>Offset</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 422(f) of the Energy Independence
and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17082(f)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id5A20D575AEFD4CCF974F71D735685523">
<enum>(1)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3), by striking
<quote>and</quote> after the semicolon at the end; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id1B8FCA78F1A34810883B3B59EE8F2521">
<enum>(2)</enum>
<text>by striking
paragraph (4) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFDD50B5456D847F8838BC30F360D4CD0" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id881B4508641A4D049923F1635B1E06E3">
<enum>(4)</enum>
<text>$200,000,000 for
fiscal year 2013; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id91548301E3B54DCA9F0D404ABB9B482C">
<enum>(5)</enum>
<text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$144,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="id5854d0b8-40ad-43f8-9c1a-e7f45c7a30bd">
<enum>502.</enum>
<header>Budgetary
effects</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">The budgetary effects
of this Act, for the purpose of complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go
Act
of 2010, shall be determined by reference to the latest statement titled
<term>Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation</term> for this Act, submitted for
printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of the Senate Budget
Committee, provided that such statement has been submitted prior to the
vote on
passage.</text>
</section><section id="idd5627b3f-f445-4962-9b0e-b96c282bc2c6">
<enum>503.</enum>
<header>Advance
appropriations required</header>
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">The
authorization of amounts under this Act and the amendments made by this
Act
shall be effective for any fiscal year only to the extent and in the
amount
provided in advance in appropriations Acts.</text>
</section>
April 29, 2014Read the second time and placed on the calendar