‘‘(i) INFORMATION AND REPORTS.—In accordance 
with section 13 of the Federal Energy Administration Act 
of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 772), the Secretary may require any 
retail electricity distributor, any retail natural gas dis-
tributor, any third-party efficiency provider, or such other 
entities as the Secretary deems appropriate, to provide any 
information the Secretary determines appropriate to carry 
out this section. 
‘‘(j) STATE LAW.—Nothing in this section shall di-
minish or qualify any authority of a State or political sub-
division of a State to adopt or enforce any law or regula-
tion respecting electricity savings or natural gas savings, 
including any law or regulation establishing energy effi-
ciency requirements more stringent than those under this 
section, provided that no such law or regulation may re-
lieve any person of any requirement otherwise applicable 
under this section. 
‘‘(k) PROGRAM REVIEW.— 
‘‘(1) NATIONAL
ACADEMY
OF
SCIENCES
RE-
VIEW.—The Secretary shall enter into a contract 
with the National Academy of Sciences under which 
the Academy shall, not later than July 1, 2017, and 
every 10 years thereafter, submit to the Secretary 
and to Congress a comprehensive evaluation of all 
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aspects of the program established under this sec-
tion, including— 
‘‘(A) an evaluation of the effectiveness of 
the program, including its specific design ele-
ments, in increasing the efficiency of retail nat-
ural gas and electricity distribution and con-
sumption; 
‘‘(B) the opportunities for additional tech-
nologies and sources of efficiency that have 
emerged since enactment of this section; 
‘‘(C) the program’s impact on the reli-
ability of electricity and natural gas supply; 
‘‘(D) the net benefits or costs of the pro-
gram to the national and State economies, in-
cluding effects on electricity and natural gas de-
mand and prices, economic development bene-
fits of investment, environmental benefits, and 
avoided costs related to environmental and con-
gestion mitigation investments that otherwise 
would have been required; 
‘‘(E) an assessment of the benefits and 
costs of increasing the performance standards 
established under subsection (d) of this section; 
‘‘(F) the feasibility, advantages, and dis-
advantages of alternative models for dem-
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onstrating compliance with a Federal energy ef-
ficiency resource standard, including estab-
lishing a national trading system for energy ef-
ficiency credits or demonstrating compliance 
through actual reductions in delivery or sales of 
electricity and natural gas, rather than on pro-
gram savings; and 
‘‘(G) recommendations regarding potential 
changes to this section, to regulations and pro-
cedures for implementing this section, or to re-
lated public policies. 
‘‘(2) RECOMMENDATIONS TO CONGRESS.—Not 
later than January 1, 2018, and every 10 years 
thereafter, the Secretary shall transmit to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce of the United 
States House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Energy and Natural Resources of the United 
States Senate a report making recommendations for 
modifications and improvements to the program es-
tablished under this section and any related pro-
grams, including an explanation of the inconsist-
encies, if any, between the Secretary’s recommenda-
tions and those included in the National Academy of 
Sciences evaluation under paragraph (1).’’. 
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(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS AMENDMENT.—The table 
of contents of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act 
of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2601 and following) is amended by 
adding at the end of the items relating to title VI the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘Sec. 610. Federal energy efficiency resource standard.’’. 
Æ 
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