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§8262h United States Postal Service Energy Regulations

Title 42 › CHAPTER 91 — NATIONAL ENERGY CONSERVATION POLICY › SUBCHAPTER III — FEDERAL ENERGY INITIATIVE › Part B — Federal Energy Management › § 8262h

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Postmaster General must make rules to track energy costs for every building it owns, leases, operates, or manages. The rules must set up a system to find which sites cost the most to run per square foot (or by another measure), spot unusual changes in energy use, and check that electricity and gas bills are accurate. The Postmaster General must also run a program to find and buy energy-efficient products for its facilities and, whenever possible, use energy-efficiency information from the Federal Supply Schedules of the General Services Administration and the Defense Logistics Agency.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §8262h

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)In general
The Postmaster General shall issue regulations to ensure the reliable and accurate accounting of energy consumption costs for all buildings or facilities which it owns, leases, operates, or manages. Such regulations shall—
(1)establish a monitoring system to determine which facilities are the most costly to operate on an energy consumption per square foot basis or other relevant analytical basis;
(2)identify unusual or abnormal changes in energy consumption; and
(3)check the accuracy of utility charges for electricity and gas consumption.
(b)Identification of energy efficiency products
The Postmaster General shall actively undertake a program to identify and procure energy efficiency products for use in its facilities. In carrying out this subsection, the Postmaster General shall, to the maximum extent practicable, incorporate energy efficient information available on Federal Supply Schedules maintained by the General Services Administration and the Defense Logistics Agency.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

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.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

United States Postal Service Building Energy Survey and Report Pub. L. 102–486, title I, § 164, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2860, directed Postmaster General to conduct an energy survey, as defined in 42 U.S.C. 8259(5), for purposes of determining maximum potential cost effective energy savings that may be achieved in a representative sample of buildings owned or leased by United States Postal Service in different areas of the country, making recommendations for cost effective energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements in those buildings and in other similar United States Postal Service buildings, and identifying barriers which may prevent the United States Postal Service from complying with energy management goals, and further directed Postmaster General to transmit to Congress within 180 days after Oct. 24, 1992, a plan for implementing this survey, and to report to Congress on the findings and conclusions of such survey as soon as practicable after its completion.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 8262h

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110