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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1420 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019 

Recevied; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 

Resources 

AN ACT 

To amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 

2007 to promote energy efficiency via information and 

computing technologies, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Energy Efficient Gov3 ernment Technology Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND ENERGY-SAVING INFOR5 MATION TECHNOLOGIES. 

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle C of title V of the Energy 

7 Independence and Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 110– 

8 140; 121 Stat. 1661) is amended by adding at the end 

9 the following: 

10 ‘‘SEC. 530. ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND ENERGY-SAVING INFOR11 MATION TECHNOLOGIES. 

12 ‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

13 ‘‘(1) DIRECTOR.—The term ‘Director’ means 

14 the Director of the Office of Management and Budg15 et. 

16 ‘‘(2) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.—The term 

17 ‘information technology’ has the meaning given that 

18 term in section 11101 of title 40, United States 

19 Code. 

20 ‘‘(b) DEVELOPMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION STRAT21 EGY.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 

22 of this section, each Federal agency shall coordinate with 

23 the Director, the Secretary, and the Administrator of the 

24 Environmental Protection Agency to develop an implemen25 tation strategy (that includes best practices and measure26 ment and verification techniques) for the maintenance, 


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1 purchase, and use by the Federal agency of energy-effi2 cient and energy-saving information technologies at or for 

3 federally owned and operated facilities, taking into consid4 eration the performance goals established under sub5 section (d). 

6 ‘‘(c) ADMINISTRATION.—In developing an implemen7 tation strategy under subsection (b), each Federal agency 

8 shall consider— 

9 ‘‘(1) advanced metering infrastructure; 

10 ‘‘(2) energy-efficient data center strategies and 

11 methods of increasing asset and infrastructure utili12 zation; 

13 ‘‘(3) advanced power management tools; 

14 ‘‘(4) building information modeling, including 

15 building energy management; 

16 ‘‘(5) secure telework and travel substitution 

17 tools; and 

18 ‘‘(6) mechanisms to ensure that the agency re19 alizes the energy cost savings brought about through 

20 increased efficiency and utilization. 

21 ‘‘(d) PERFORMANCE GOALS.— 

22 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 

23 after the date of enactment of this section, the Di24 rector, in consultation with the Secretary, shall es25 tablish performance goals for evaluating the efforts 


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1 of Federal agencies in improving the maintenance, 

2 purchase, and use of energy-efficient and energy-sav3 ing information technology at or for federally owned 

4 and operated facilities. 

5 ‘‘(2) BEST PRACTICES.—The Chief Information 

6 Officers Council established under section 3603 of 

7 title 44, United States Code, shall recommend best 

8 practices for the attainment of the performance 

9 goals, which shall include Federal agency consider10 ation of, to the extent applicable by law, the use 

11 of— 

12 ‘‘(A) energy savings performance con13 tracting; and 

14 ‘‘(B) utility energy services contracting. 

15 ‘‘(e) REPORTS.— 

16 ‘‘(1) AGENCY REPORTS.—Each Federal agency 

17 shall include in the report of the agency under sec18 tion 527 a description of the efforts and results of 

19 the agency under this section. 

20 ‘‘(2) OMB GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY REPORTS

21 AND SCORECARDS.—Effective beginning not later 

22 than October 1, 2019, the Director shall include in 

23 the annual report and scorecard of the Director re24 quired under section 528 a description of the efforts 

25 and results of Federal agencies under this section.’’. 


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1 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of con2 tents for the Energy Independence and Security Act of 

3 2007 is amended by adding after the item relating to sec4 tion 529 the following: 

‘‘Sec. 530. Energy-efficient and energy-saving information technologies.’’. 

5 SEC. 3. ENERGY EFFICIENT DATA CENTERS. 

6 Section 453 of the Energy Independence and Security 

7 Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17112) is amended— 

8 (1) in subsection (b)— 

9 (A) in paragraph (2)(D)(iv), by striking 

10 ‘‘determined by the organization’’ and inserting 

11 ‘‘proposed by the stakeholders’’; and 

12 (B) by striking paragraph (3); and 

13 (2) by striking subsections (c) through (g) and 

14 inserting the following: 

15 ‘‘(c) STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT.—The Secretary 

16 and the Administrator shall carry out subsection (b) in 

17 collaboration with information technology industry and 

18 other key stakeholders, with the goal of producing results 

19 that accurately reflect the most relevant and useful infor20 mation. In such collaboration, the Secretary and the Ad21 ministrator shall pay particular attention to organizations 

22 that— 

23 ‘‘(1) have members with expertise in energy ef24 ficiency and in the development, operation, and 

25 functionality of data centers, information technology 


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1 equipment, and software, such as representatives of 

2 hardware manufacturers, data center operators, and 

3 facility managers; 

4 ‘‘(2) obtain and address input from Department 

5 of Energy National Laboratories or any college, uni6 versity, research institution, industry association, 

7 company, or public interest group with applicable ex8 pertise; 

9 ‘‘(3) follow— 

10 ‘‘(A) commonly accepted procedures for 

11 the development of specifications; and 

12 ‘‘(B) accredited standards development 

13 processes; and 

14 ‘‘(4) have a mission to promote energy effi15 ciency for data centers and information technology. 

16 ‘‘(d) MEASUREMENTS AND SPECIFICATIONS.—The 

17 Secretary and the Administrator shall consider and assess 

18 the adequacy of the specifications, measurements, best 

19 practices, and benchmarks described in subsection (b) for 

20 use by the Federal Energy Management Program, the En21 ergy Star Program, and other efficiency programs of the 

22 Department of Energy or the Environmental Protection 

23 Agency. 

24 ‘‘(e) STUDY.—The Secretary, in collaboration with 

25 the Administrator, shall, not later than 4 years after the 


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1 date of enactment of the Energy Efficient Government 

2 Technology Act, make available to the public an update 

3 to the report of the Lawrence Berkeley National Labora4 tory entitled ‘United States Data Center Energy Usage 

5 Report’ and dated June, 2016 (prepared as an update to 

6 the Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy 

7 Efficiency, published on August 2, 2007, under section 1 

8 of Public Law 109–431 (120 Stat. 2920)), that includes— 

9 ‘‘(1) a comparison and gap analysis of the esti10 mates and projections contained in the report with 

11 new data regarding the period from 2015 through 

12 2019; 

13 ‘‘(2) an analysis considering the impact of in14 formation technologies, including virtualization and 

15 cloud computing, in the public and private sectors; 

16 ‘‘(3) an evaluation of the impact of the com17 bination of cloud platforms, mobile devices, social 

18 media, and big data on data center energy usage; 

19 ‘‘(4) an evaluation of water usage in data cen20 ters and recommendations for reductions in such 

21 water usage; and 

22 ‘‘(5) updated projections and recommendations 

23 for best practices through fiscal year 2025. 

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1 holders and the Director of the Office of Management and 

2 Budget, shall maintain a data center energy practitioner 

3 program that leads to the certification of energy practi4 tioners qualified to evaluate the energy usage and effi5 ciency opportunities in federally owned and operated data 

6 centers. Each Federal agency shall consider having the 

7 data centers of the agency evaluated every 4 years, in ac8 cordance with section 543(f) of the National Energy Con9 servation Policy Act, by energy practitioners certified pur10 suant to such program. 

11 ‘‘(g) OPEN DATA INITIATIVE.—The Secretary, in col12 laboration with key stakeholders and the Office of Man13 agement and Budget, shall establish an open data initia14 tive relating to energy usage at federally owned and oper15 ated data centers, with the purpose of making such data 

16 available and accessible in a manner that encourages fur17 ther data center innovation, optimization, and consolida18 tion. In establishing the initiative, the Secretary shall con19 sider the use of the online Data Center Maturity Model. 

20 ‘‘(h) INTERNATIONAL SPECIFICATIONS AND

21 METRICS.—The Secretary, in collaboration with key 

22 stakeholders, shall actively participate in efforts to har23 monize global specifications and metrics for data center 

24 energy and water efficiency. 


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1 ‘‘(i) DATA CENTER UTILIZATION METRIC.—The Sec2 retary, in collaboration with key stakeholders, shall facili3 tate in the development of an efficiency metric that meas4 ures the energy efficiency of a data center (including 

5 equipment and facilities). 

6 ‘‘(j) PROTECTION OF PROPRIETARY INFORMATION.— 

7 The Secretary and the Administrator shall not disclose 

8 any proprietary information or trade secrets provided by 

9 any individual or company for the purposes of carrying 

10 out this section or the programs and initiatives established 

11 under this section.’’. 

12 SEC. 4. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 

13 The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 

14 complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 

15 shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 

16 titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 

17 Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 

18 by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, pro19 vided that such statement has been submitted prior to the 

20 vote on passage. 

Passed the House of Representatives September 9, 

2019. 

Attest: CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 

Clerk. 


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