§8262e — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

OMB must, within 120 days after October 24, 1992, work with the Secretary, the General Services Administrator, and the Secretary of Defense to make rules for agencies to measure energy use in any federal building or leased space where the government pays the utilities and operates the space. Agencies must start using those rules within 120 days after they are issued. Facility energy managers must keep energy use and cost records for the Inspector General, Congress, and the public to review. The rules must set up monitoring to show which facilities cost the most (for example, per square foot), find unusual changes in energy use, and check electric and gas charges for accuracy. The General Services Administrator must include estimated energy costs for leased space where the government does not directly pay the bills in each required report.

Title 42, §8262e

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(a)Not later than 120 days after October 24, 1992, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in cooperation with the Secretary, the Administrator of General Services, and the Secretary of Defense, shall establish guidelines to be employed by each Federal agency to assess accurate energy consumption for all buildings or facilities which the agency owns, operates, manages or leases, where the Government pays utilities separate from the lease and the Government operates the leased space. Such guidelines are to be used in reports required under section 8258 of this title. Each agency shall implement such guidelines no later than 120 days after their establishment. Each facility energy manager shall maintain energy consumption and energy cost records for review by the Inspector General, the Congress, and the general public.

(b)Such guidelines shall include the establishment of a monitoring system to determine—

(1)which facilities are the most costly to operate when measured on an energy consumption per square foot basis or other relevant analytical basis;

(2)unusual or abnormal changes in energy consumption; and

(3)the accuracy of utility charges for electric and gas consumption.

(c)The Administrator of General Services shall include, in each report submitted under section 8262a of this title, the estimated energy cost of leased buildings or space in which the Federal Government does not directly pay the utility bills.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, and not as part of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act which comprises this chapter.

§8262e Federal energy cost accounting and management

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Title 42, §8262e

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