106 STAT. 2850 PUBLIC LAW 102-486—OCT. 24, 1992 "(£) AUTHORIZATION OP APPROPRIATIONS. —T here are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for carrying out this section $5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1993, 1994, and 1995. 42 USC 8258b. "SEC. S50. SURVEY OF ENERGY SAVING POTENTIAL. "(a) IN GENERAL. —The Secretary shall, in consultation with the Interagency Energy Management Task Force established under section 547, carry out an energy survey for the purposes of— "(1) determining the maximtmi potential cost effective energy savings that may be achieved in a representative sample of buildings owned or leased by the Federal Government in different areas of the country; (2) making recommendations for cost effective energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements in those buildings and in other similar Federal buildings; and
- (3) identifying barriers which may prevent an agency's
ability to comply with section 543 and other energy management goals. "(b) IMPLEMENTATION.— (1) The Secretary shall transmit to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Energyr and Commerce, the Committee on Government Operations, and me Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives, within 180 days after the date of the enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, a plan for implementing this section. "(2) The Secretary shall designate buildings to be surveyed in the project so as to obtain a sample of the buildings of the types and in the climates that is representative of buildings owned or leased by Federal agencies in the United States that consimie the mcgor portion of the energy consiuned in Federal buildings. Such sample shall include, where appropriate, the following types of Federal facility space:
- (A) Housing.
"(B) Storage. «(C) Office. "(D) Services. "(E) Schools. "(F) Research and Development. "(G) Industrial. " (H) Prisons. "(I) Hospitals. "(3) For purposes of this section, an improvement shall be considered cost effective if the cost of the energy saved or displaced by the improvement exceeds the cost of the improvement over the remaining life of a Federal building or the remaining term of a lease of a building leased by the Federal Government as determined by the life Qrcle costing methodology developed under section 544. " (c) PERSONNEL. — (1) In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall utilize personnel who are— "(A) employees of the Department of Energy; or "(B) selected by the agencies utilizing the buildings which are being surveyed under this section. "(2) Such personnel shall be detailed for the purpose of carrying out this section without any reduction of salary or benefits.
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