[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1706 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1706

 To amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to promote 
 energy efficiency via information and computing technologies, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              July 7, 2015

Mr. Risch (for himself and Mr. Heinrich) 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 Independence and Security Act of 2007 to promote 
 energy efficiency via information and computing technologies, 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 ``Energy Efficient Government 
Technology Act''.

SEC. 2. ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND ENERGY-SAVING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES.

    Subtitle C of title V of the Energy Independence and Security Act 
of 2007 (Public Law 110-140; 121 Stat. 1661) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:

``SEC. 530. ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND ENERGY-SAVING INFORMATION 
              TECHNOLOGIES.

    ``(a) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Director.--The term `Director' means the Director of 
        the Office of Management and Budget.
            ``(2) Information technology.--The term `information 
        technology' has the meaning given that term in section 11101 of 
        title 40, United States Code.
    ``(b) Development of Implementation Strategy.--Not later than 1 
year after the date of enactment of this section, each Federal agency 
shall coordinate with the Director, the Secretary, and the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to develop an 
implementation strategy (that includes 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, taking into consideration the performance goals 
established under subsection (d).
    ``(c) Administration.--In developing an implementation strategy 
under subsection (b), each Federal agency shall consider--
            ``(1) advanced metering infrastructure;
            ``(2) energy-efficient data center strategies and methods 
        of increasing asset and infrastructure utilization;
            ``(3) advanced power management tools;
            ``(4) building information modeling, including building 
        energy management;
            ``(5) secure telework and travel substitution tools; and
            ``(6) mechanisms to ensure that the agency realizes the 
        energy cost savings brought about through increased efficiency 
        and utilization.
    ``(d) Performance Goals.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
        of enactment of this section, 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.
            ``(2) Best practices.--The Chief Information Officers 
        Council established under section 3603 of title 44, United 
        States Code, shall recommend best practices for the attainment 
        of the performance goals, which shall include Federal agency 
        consideration of the use of--
                    ``(A) energy savings performance contracting; and
                    ``(B) utility energy services contracting.
    ``(e) Reports.--
            ``(1) Agency reports.--Each Federal agency shall include in 
        the report of the agency under section 527 a description of the 
        efforts and results of the agency under this section.
            ``(2) OMB government efficiency reports and scorecards.--
        Effective beginning not later than October 1, 2016, the 
        Director shall include in the annual report and scorecard of 
        the Director required under section 528 a description of the 
        efforts and results of Federal agencies under this section.''.

SEC. 3. ENERGY EFFICIENT DATA CENTERS.

    Section 453 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 
U.S.C. 17112) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by striking paragraph (3); and
            (2) by striking subsections (c) through (g) and inserting 
        the following:
    ``(c) Stakeholder Involvement.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary and the Administrator 
        shall carry out subsection (b) in collaboration with 
        information technology industry and other key stakeholders, 
        with the goal of producing results that accurately reflect the 
        best knowledge in the most pertinent domains.
            ``(2) Organizations.--In collaborating under paragraph (1), 
        the Secretary and the Administrator shall pay particular 
        attention to organizations that--
                    ``(A) have members with expertise in energy 
                efficiency and in the development, operation, and 
                functionality of data centers, information technology 
                equipment, and software, such as representatives of 
                hardware manufacturers, data center operators, and 
                facility managers;
                    ``(B) obtain and address input from Department of 
                Energy National Laboratories or any college, 
                university, research institution, industry association, 
                company, or public interest group with applicable 
                expertise;
                    ``(C) follow--
                            ``(i) commonly accepted procedures for the 
                        development of specifications; and
                            ``(ii) accredited standards development 
                        processes; and
                    ``(D) have a mission to promote energy efficiency 
                for data centers and information technology.
    ``(d) Measurements and Specifications.--The Secretary and the 
Administrator shall consider and assess the adequacy of the 
specifications, measurements, and benchmarks described in subsection 
(b) for use by--
            ``(1) the Federal Energy Management Program;
            ``(2) the Energy Star program established by section 324A 
        of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6294a); 
        and
            ``(3) other efficiency programs of the Department of Energy 
        or the Environmental Protection Agency.
    ``(e) Study.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary, in collaboration with the Administrator, shall 
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--
            ``(1) a comparison and gap analysis of the estimates and 
        projections contained in the original report with new data 
        regarding the period from 2007 through 2014;
            ``(2) an analysis considering the impact of information 
        technologies (including virtualization and cloud computing) in 
        the public and private sectors;
            ``(3) an evaluation of the impact of the combination of 
        cloud platforms, mobile devices, social media, and big data on 
        data center energy usage; and
            ``(4) updated projections and recommendations for best 
        practices through fiscal year 2020.
    ``(f) Data Center Energy Practitioner Program.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary, in collaboration with key 
        stakeholders and the Director of the Office of Management and 
        Budget, shall carry out a data center energy practitioner 
        program that leads to the certification of energy practitioners 
        qualified to evaluate the energy usage and efficiency 
        opportunities in Federal data centers.
            ``(2) Periodic evaluations.--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.
    ``(g) Open Data Initiative.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary, in collaboration with key 
        stakeholders and the Office of Management and Budget, shall 
        carry out an open data initiative for Federal data center 
        energy usage data to make such data available and accessible in 
        a manner that encourages further data center innovation, 
        optimization, and consolidation.
            ``(2) Model.--In carrying out the initiative, the Secretary 
        shall consider the use of the online Data Center Maturity 
        Model.
    ``(h) International Specifications and Metrics.--The Secretary, in 
collaboration with key stakeholders, shall actively participate in 
efforts to harmonize global specifications and metrics for data center 
energy efficiency.
    ``(i) Data Center Utilization Metric.--The Secretary, in 
collaboration with key stakeholders, shall facilitate the development 
of an efficiency metric that measures the energy efficiency of a data 
center (including equipment and facilities).
    ``(j) Protection of Proprietary Information.--The Secretary and the 
Administrator shall not disclose any proprietary information or trade 
secrets provided by any individual or company for the purposes of 
carrying out this section or the programs and initiatives carried out 
under this section.''.
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