3.0.0 1637 2023-01-12T17:52:47Z 2023-01-12T17:52:47Z Senate S S 2007-06-15 110 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-06-15T16:38:39Z Public Buildings Cost Reduction Act of 2007 110 992 S 2007-05-03 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 131. Related bill CRS 2007-06-15 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. IntroReferral 2007-06-15 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress I000024 Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] Jim Inhofe R OK N Government Operations and Politics Air conditioning Congress Congressional reporting requirements Energy Energy conservation Federal installations Federal office buildings Geothermal resources Heat pumps Government Operations and Politics 00 2007-06-15 Introduced in Senate 2007-09-12T19:34:25Z Requires the Administrator of General Services to establish a program to accelerate the use of geothermal heat pumps at General Services Administration (GSA) facilities. Requires such program to: (1) ensure centralized responsibility for the coordination of geothermal heat pump recommendations, practices, and activities of all relevant federal agencies; (2) provide technical assistance and operational guidance to tenants to achieve maximum feasible replacement of existing heating and cooling technologies with geothermal heat pump technologies within five years; and (3) establish methods to track the success of federal agencies with respect to that goal.

Requires the Administrator to: (1) review the current use of geothermal heat pump technologies in GSA facilities and the availability of such technologies to facility managers; and (2) establish an acceleration program to achieve maximum feasible replacement of existing heating and cooling technologies with geothermal heat pump technologies in each GSA facility.

Requires the Administrator to: (1) ensure that a manager responsible for accelerating the use of geothermal heat pump technologies is designated for each GSA geothermal heat pump technologies and practices facility; and (2) submit to Congress a plan for implementing, within five years, geothermal heat pump technologies and practices at GSA facilities.

]]> A bill to establish a geothermal heat pump technology acceleration program relating to General Services Administration facilities. Display Title A bill to establish a geothermal heat pump technology acceleration program relating to General Services Administration facilities. Official Title as Introduced A bill to establish a geothermal heat pump technology acceleration program relating to General Services Administration facilities. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2007-06-15T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s1637is/xml/BILLS-110s1637is.xml 2007-06-15 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.