§8236 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

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Not later than 18 months after October 24, 1992, the Secretary must issue voluntary guidelines after consulting with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, people who run existing home energy rating programs, and others. The guidelines are meant to help state and local governments, utilities, builders, real estate agents, lenders, mortgage market agencies, and others assign energy-efficiency ratings to homes. The guidelines must promote consistent rating systems; set rules for certifying the tools that measure efficiency, training the people who do ratings, collecting and reporting data, quality control, and monitoring; support the uniform Federal energy efficient mortgage plan, including the plan under section 946 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12712 note) and sections 105 and 106 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992; make sure ratings reflect local climate and building practices, on-site solar, and peak-load shifting without favoring any fuel type; and ensure a home can get a rating at sale and that buyers are told the rating.

Title 42, §8236

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(a)Not later than 18 months after October 24, 1992, the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, representatives of existing home energy rating programs, and other appropriate persons, shall, by rule, issue voluntary guidelines that may be used by State and local governments, utilities, builders, real estate agents, lenders, agencies in mortgage markets, and others, to enable and encourage the assignment of energy efficiency ratings to residential buildings.

(b)The voluntary guidelines issued under subsection (a) shall—

(1)encourage uniformity with regard to systems for rating the annual energy efficiency of residential buildings;

(2)establish protocols and procedures for—

(A)certification of the technical accuracy of building energy analysis tools used to determine energy efficiency ratings;

(B)training of personnel conducting energy efficiency ratings;

(C)data collection and reporting;

(D)quality control; and

(E)monitoring and evaluation;

(3)encourage consistency with, and support for, the uniform plan for Federal energy efficient mortgages, including that developed under section 946 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12712 note) and pursuant to section 105 and 106 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992;

(4)provide that rating systems take into account local climate conditions and construction practices, solar energy collected on-site, and the benefits of peak load shifting construction practices, and not discriminate among fuel types; and

(5)establish procedures to ensure that residential buildings can receive an energy efficiency rating at the time of sale and that such rating is communicated to potential buyers.

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section 946 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(3), is section 946 of Pub. L. 101–625, which is set out as a note under section 12712 of this title. section 105 and 106 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, referred to in subsec. (b)(3), are section 105 and 106 of Pub. L. 102–486. section 105 amended section 12704 of this title and provisions set out as a note under section 12712 of this title. section 106 is classified to section 1701z–16 of Title 12, Banks and Banking.

§8236 Voluntary rating guidelines

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Title 42, §8236

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