[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1059 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1059

To amend the Energy Conservation and Production Act to improve Federal 
     building energy efficiency standards, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 29, 2007

Mrs. Clinton (for herself and Mr. Kerry) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Energy Conservation and Production Act to improve Federal 
     building energy efficiency standards, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Zero-Emissions Building Act of 
2007''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVEMENT OF FEDERAL BUILDING ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARDS.

    (a) Standards.--Section 305(a)(3)(A)(i) of the Energy Conservation 
and Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6834(a)(3)(A)(i)) is amended--
            (1) in subclause (I), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) by redesignating subclause (II) as subclause (III); and
            (3) by inserting after subclause (I) the following:
                                    ``(II) the buildings be designed so 
                                that the greenhouse gas emissions (as 
                                measured by the fossil fuel-generated 
                                energy consumption of the buildings) 
                                are reduced, as compared to the fossil 
                                fuel-generated energy consumption by a 
                                similar Federal building during fiscal 
                                year 2003 (as measured by Commercial 
                                Buildings Energy Consumption Survey 
                                data from the Energy Information 
                                Agency), by the percentage specified in 
                                the following table:


------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                             Percentage
                        Fiscal Year                           Reduction
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2007......................................................           50
2010......................................................           60
2015......................................................           70
2020......................................................           80
2025......................................................           90
2030......................................................          100
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                        ; and''.
    (b) Application to Major Renovations.--Section 305(a)(3)(A)(i) of 
the Energy Conservation and Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6834(a)(3)(A)(i)) 
is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``and Federal buildings undergoing major 
        renovations'' after ``for new Federal buildings''; and
            (2) in subclause (III) (as redesignated by subsection 
        (a)(2)), by inserting ``and major renovations of buildings'' 
        after ``all new and replacement buildings''.
    (c) Compliance.--Section 305(a)(3) of the Energy Conservation and 
Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6834(a)(3)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
                    ``(D) Compliance.--A Federal agency may achieve the 
                energy efficiency performance standards required under 
                this paragraph by implementing a building design that 
                uses--
                            ``(i) design methods and energy efficiency 
                        technologies to reduce energy demand, including 
                        building orientation, window glazing, light 
                        scoops, or skylights;
                            ``(ii) on-site, renewable energy generation 
                        technologies, including ground source heat 
                        pumps and passive solar or solar photovoltaics; 
                        or
                            ``(iii) any of the methods or technologies 
                        described in clause (i) or (ii) at Federal 
                        facilities not covered by subparagraph (A)(i) 
                        to produce energy savings that are in addition 
                        to the energy savings required under this 
                        paragraph (as in effect prior to the amendments 
                        made by section 2 of the Zero-Emissions 
                        Building Act of 2007) or planned prior to the 
                        date of enactment of that Act.''.
    (d) Effective Dates.--Section 305(a)(3)(A) of the Energy 
Conservation and Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6834(a)(3)(A)) is amended by 
striking ``date of enactment of this paragraph'' each place it appears 
and inserting ``date of enactment of the Zero-Emissions Building Act of 
2007''.
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