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[CITE: 42USC8262e]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
             CHAPTER 91--NATIONAL ENERGY CONSERVATION POLICY
 
                SUBCHAPTER III--FEDERAL ENERGY INITIATIVE
 
                    Part B--Federal Energy Management
 
Sec. 8262e. Federal energy cost accounting and management


(a) Guidelines

    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) Contents of guidelines

    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) Federally leased space energy reporting requirement

    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.

(Pub. L. 102-486, title I, Sec. 159, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2857.)

                          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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 8256 of this title.
