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[CITE: 42USC8262g]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
             CHAPTER 91--NATIONAL ENERGY CONSERVATION POLICY
 
                SUBCHAPTER III--FEDERAL ENERGY INITIATIVE
 
                    Part B--Federal Energy Management
 
Sec. 8262g. Procurement and identification of energy efficient 
        products
        

(a) Procurement

    The Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of Defense, and 
the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency, each shall undertake a 
program to include energy efficient products in carrying out their 
procurement and supply functions.

(b) Identification program

    The Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of Defense, and 
the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency, in consultation with the 
Secretary of Energy, each shall implement, in conjunction with carrying 
out their procurement and supply functions, a program to identify and 
designate those energy efficient products that offer significant 
potential savings, using, to the extent practicable, the life cycle cost 
methods and procedures developed under section 8254 of this title. The 
Secretary of Energy shall, to the extent necessary to carry out this 
section and after consultation with the aforementioned agency heads, 
provide estimates of the degree of relative energy efficiency of 
products.

(c) Guidelines

    The Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, in consultation 
with the Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of Energy, the 
Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency, 
shall issue guidelines to encourage the acquisition and use by all 
Federal agencies of products identified pursuant to this section. The 
Secretary of Defense and the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency 
shall consider, and place emphasis on, the acquisition of such products 
as part of the Agency's ongoing review of military specifications.

(d) Report to Congress

    Not later than December 31 of 1993 and thereafter as part of the 
report required under section 8258(b) of this title, the Secretary of 
Energy, in consultation with the Administrator for Federal Procurement 
Policy, the Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of Defense, 
and the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency, shall report on the 
progress, status, activities, and results of the programs under 
subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this section. The report shall 
include--
        (1) the types and functions of each product identified under 
    subsection (b) of this section, and efforts undertaken by the 
    Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of Defense, and the 
    Director of the Defense Logistics Agency to encourage the 
    acquisition and use of such products;
        (2) the actions taken by the Administrator of General Services, 
    the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the Defense Logistics 
    Agency to identify products under subsection (b) of this section, 
    the barriers which inhibit implementation of identification of such 
    products, and recommendations for legislative action, if necessary;
        (3) progress on the development and issuance of guidelines under 
    subsection (c) of this section;
        (4) an indication of whether energy cost savings technologies 
    identified by the Advanced Building Technology Council, under 
    section 1701j-2(h) of title 12, have been used in the identification 
    of products under subsection (b) of this section;
        (5) an estimate of the potential cost savings to the Federal 
    Government from acquiring products identified under subsection (b) 
    of this section with respect to which energy is a significant 
    component of life cycle cost, based on the quantities of such 
    products that could be utilized throughout the Government; and
        (6) the actual quantities acquired of products described in 
    paragraph (5).

(Pub. L. 102-486, title I, Sec. 161, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2858; Pub. 
L. 104-66, title I, Sec. 1052(c), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 718.)

                          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.


                               Amendments

    1995--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104-66 substituted ``thereafter as part 
of the report required under section 8258(b) of this title,'' for ``of 
each year thereafter,'' in introductory provisions.

                        Executive Order No. 12845

    Ex. Ord. No. 12845, Apr. 21, 1993, 58 F.R. 21887, which required 
Federal agencies to procure computer equipment that met EPA Energy Star 
requirements for energy efficiency, was revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 13123, 
Sec. 604, June 3, 1999, 64 F.R. 30859, set out as a note under section 
8251 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 8258 of this title.
