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<dc:title>119 HR 3431 IH: Green Energy for Federal Buildings Act</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-05-15</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code><congress display="yes">119th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 3431</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20250515">May 15, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="B001285">Ms. Brownley</sponsor> introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HGO00">Committee on Oversight and Government Reform</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to update the Federal purchase requirement to ensure the use of 100 percent renewable energy by 2050, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body id="HA56B88CA04EF4C328634F79F6B98E2E7" style="OLC"> 
<section id="H00E80D4184A74B51873ADD78BBB3D35D" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Green Energy for Federal Buildings Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section> <section id="HA995C5A4917B4D4EADBBA6DDFF95ADED"><enum>2.</enum><header>Federal purchase requirement</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 203 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/15852">42 U.S.C. 15852</external-xref>) is amended—</text> 
<paragraph id="H350474FD19D747B78A7CC191E6C28D2C"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)—</text> <subparagraph id="H7C482AAC0E634FB4B1C6245632A4F407"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by amending paragraph (3) to read as follows:</text> 
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<paragraph id="HA2A0A5A1286B45A6873D55BDEC0C3F9F"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not less than 7.5 percent in fiscal years 2013 through 2019.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HFC14BFBAFE1242FCAFCA5844CB3691A1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> 
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<paragraph id="H436B7779E0F841C684377BCCC01FD7A6"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not less than 35 percent in fiscal years 2030 through 2039.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H028DAA9397C84F5181C380181275ED53"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Not less than 75 percent in fiscal years 2040 through 2049.</text></paragraph> 
<paragraph id="H53E379DEBE4540F58C2E651DFBF61830"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Not less than 100 percent in fiscal year 2050 and each fiscal year thereafter.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9A57BDA84AF54597A763B0D24891E971"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:</text> 
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<subsection id="H6148297E4A194E9690F8437FA62A797A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Feasibility</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall seek to ensure that, to the maximum extent economically feasible and technically practicable, the Federal Government consumes renewable energy produced—</text> <paragraph id="H4732BE4090BE4FBEB7CD353AFC0E8865"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">on-site at a Federal facility;</text></paragraph> 
<paragraph id="H3C948D692A4E494A9F0FB4BA8CA04ADA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>on Federal lands; or</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA3E40070B0A54644895A8BA3DAD5916D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>on Indian land as defined in section 2601 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/25/3501">25 U.S.C. 3501</external-xref>).</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section> 
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