(b) TRANSFERS TO FUND.— 
(1) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Fund 
$500,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
(2) LOAN
REPAYMENTS.—There are appro-
priated to the Fund, out of funds of the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, amounts equivalent to 
loan amounts repaid and received in the Treasury 
under subsection (e). 
(c) EXPENDITURES FROM FUND.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), on 
request by the Secretary of Energy (referred to in 
this section as the ‘‘Secretary’’), the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall transfer from the Fund to the Sec-
retary such amounts as the Secretary determines are 
necessary to provide assistance for energy efficiency 
and renewable energy projects carried out at Federal 
facilities in accordance with subsection (e). 
(2) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—An amount 
not exceeding 10 percent of the amounts in the 
Fund shall be available for each fiscal year to pay 
the administrative expenses necessary to carry out 
this section. 
(d) TRANSFERS OF AMOUNTS.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The amounts required to be 
transferred to the Fund under this section shall be 
transferred at least monthly from the general fund 
of the Treasury to the Fund on the basis of esti-
mates made by the Secretary of the Treasury. 
(2) ADJUSTMENTS.—Proper adjustment shall 
be made in amounts subsequently transferred to the 
extent prior estimates were in excess of or less than 
the amounts required to be transferred. 
(e) FEDERAL FACILITY ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND 
RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS FUND PROGRAM.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish 
a Federal facility energy efficiency and renewable 
energy projects fund program under which the Sec-
retary shall make loans to Executive agencies to as-
sist the agencies in reducing energy use and related 
purposes, as determined by the Secretary. 
(2) GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATIONS.—Not later 
than 180 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary shall issue guidelines for Execu-
tive agencies to submit applications for loans under 
this subsection. 
(3) ELIGIBILITY.—Each Executive agency shall 
be eligible to submit an application for a loan under 
this subsection. 
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(4) LOAN AWARDS.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary shall 
award loans under this subsection on a competi-
tive basis. 
(B) ALLOCATION.—The Secretary shall 
convene a committee of Executive agencies to 
determine allocation from the Fund to carry out 
this subsection after a competitive assessment 
of the technical and economic effectiveness of 
each application for a loan under this sub-
section. 
(C) SELECTION.—In determining whether 
to provide a loan to an Executive agency for a 
project under this subsection, the Secretary 
shall consider— 
(i) 
the 
cost-effectiveness 
of 
the 
project; 
(ii) the amount of energy and cost 
savings anticipated to the Federal Govern-
ment; 
(iii) the amount of funding committed 
to the project by the agency; 
(iv) the extent that a project will le-
verage financing from other non-Federal 
sources; and 
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(v) any other factor that the Secretary 
determines will result in the greatest 
amount of energy and cost savings to the 
Federal Government. 
SEC. 10. INCENTIVES FOR EXECUTIVE AGENCIES FOR UTIL-
ITY ENERGY SAVINGS CONTRACTS. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with 
the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of General 
Services, shall promulgate regulations that enable Execu-
tive agencies to retain the financial savings that result 
from entering into utility energy savings contracts. 
SEC. 11. RENEWABLE ENERGY FACILITIES SURVEYS BY EX-
ECUTIVE AGENCIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy, 
in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Ad-
ministrator of General Services, shall promulgate regula-
tions that establish appropriate methods and procedures 
for use by Executive agencies to implement, unless incon-
sistent with the mission of the Executive agencies or im-
practicable due to environmental constraints, the identi-
fication of all potential locations at Federal facilities of 
the agencies for renewable energy projects (including 
available land, building roofs, and parking structures). 
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(b) IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL LOCATIONS.— 
Not later than 1 year after the date of the promulgation 
of regulations under subsection (a), each Executive agency 
shall complete the report of the agency that identifies po-
tential locations described in subsection (a). 
SEC. 12. ADOPTION OF PERSONAL COMPUTER POWER SAV-
INGS TECHNIQUES BY EXECUTIVE AGENCIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy, 
in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs, and the Administrator of Gen-
eral Services, shall issue guidance for Executive agencies 
to employ advanced tools allowing energy savings through 
the use of computer hardware, energy efficiency software, 
and power management tools. 
(b) REPORTS ON PLANS AND SAVINGS.—Not later 
than 90 days after the date of the issuance of the guidance 
under subsection (a), each Executive agency shall submit 
to the Secretary of Energy a report that describes— 
(1) the plan of the agency for implementing the 
guidance within the agency; and 
(2) estimated energy and financial savings from 
employing the tools described in subsection (a). 
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SEC. 13. FEDERAL ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND DATA COL-
LECTION STANDARD. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy, 
in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Admin-
istrator of General Services, the Office of Science and 
Technology Policy, and relevant industry and nonprofit 
groups, shall develop and issue guidance on a Federal en-
ergy management and data collection standard. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—Guidance described in sub-
section (a) shall include, at a minimum, a plan for the 
General Services Administration to publish energy con-
sumption data for individual Federal facilities on a single, 
searchable website, accessible by the public at no cost to 
access. 
SEC. 14. ADVANCED METERING BEST PRACTICES FOR AD-
VANCED METERING. 
Section 543(e) of the National Energy Conservation 
Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8253(e)) is amended by striking 
paragraph (3) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(3) PLAN.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 
days after the date on which guidelines are es-
tablished under paragraph (2), in a report sub-
mitted by the agency under section 548(a), each 
agency shall submit to the Secretary a plan de-
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scribing the manner in which the agency will 
implement the requirements of paragraph (1), 
including— 
‘‘(i) how the agency will designate 
personnel primarily responsible for achiev-
ing the requirements; and 
‘‘(ii) a demonstration by the agency, 
complete with documentation, of any find-
ing that advanced meters or advanced me-
tering devices (as those terms are used in 
paragraph (1)), are not practicable. 
‘‘(B) UPDATES.—Reports submitted under 
subparagraph (A) shall be updated annually. 
‘‘(4) BEST PRACTICES REPORT.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 
days after the date of enactment of the Federal 
Cost Reduction Act of 2013, the Secretary of 
Energy, in consultation with the Secretary of 
Defense and the Administrator of General Serv-
ices, shall develop, and issue a report on, best 
practices for the use of advanced metering of 
energy use in Federal facilities, buildings, and 
equipment by Federal agencies. 
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‘‘(B) UPDATING.—The report described 
under subparagraph (A) shall be updated annu-
ally. 
‘‘(C) COMPONENTS.—The report shall in-
clude, at a minimum— 
‘‘(i) summaries and analysis of the re-
ports by agencies under paragraph (3); 
‘‘(ii) recommendations on standard re-
quirements or guidelines for automated en-
ergy management systems, including— 
‘‘(I) potential common commu-
nications standards to allow data 
sharing and reporting; 
‘‘(II) means of facilitating contin-
uous commissioning of buildings and 
evidence-based maintenance of build-
ings and building systems; and 
‘‘(III) standards for sufficient 
levels of security and protection 
against cyber threats to ensure sys-
tems cannot be controlled by unau-
thorized persons; and 
‘‘(iii) an analysis of— 
‘‘(I) the types of advanced meter-
ing and monitoring systems being pi-
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loted, tested, or installed in Federal 
buildings; and 
‘‘(II) existing techniques used 
within the private sector or other non- 
Federal government buildings.’’. 
SEC. 15. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR DESIGN UPDATES. 
Section 3307 of title 40, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (d) through (h) 
as subsections (e) through (i); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(d) AVAILABILITY
OF FUNDS
FOR DESIGN UP-
DATES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 
for any project for which congressional approval is 
received under subsection (a) and for which the de-
sign has been substantially completed but construc-
tion has not begun, the Administrator of General 
Services may use appropriated funds to update the 
project design to meet applicable Federal building 
energy efficiency standards established under section 
305 of the Energy Conservation and Production Act 
(42 U.S.C. 6834) and other requirements estab-
lished under section 3312 of this title. 
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‘‘(2) LIMITATION.—The use of funds under 
paragraph (1) shall not exceed 125 percent of the 
estimated energy or other cost savings associated 
with the updates as determined by a life-cycle cost 
analysis under section 544 of the National Energy 
Conservation Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8254).’’. 
SEC. 16. CONTINUOUS COMMISSIONING WITHIN THE FED-
ERAL BUILDING STOCK. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 3312 of title 40, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (c) through (g) 
as subsections (d) through (h), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(c) CONTINUOUS
COMMISSIONING
WITHIN
THE 
FEDERAL BUILDING STOCK.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of enactment of the Federal Cost Reduction 
Act of 2013, the Administrator and the Secretary of 
Energy shall incorporate commissioning and re-
commissioning standards (as those terms are defined 
in section 543(f) of the National Energy Conserva-
tion Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8253(f))), for all real 
property that— 
‘‘(A) is more than $10,000,000 in value; 
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‘‘(B) has more than 50,000 square feet; or 
‘‘(C) has energy intensity of more than $2 
per square foot. 
‘‘(2) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of enactment of the Federal Cost Re-
duction Act of 2013, the Administrator and the Sec-
retary of Energy shall promulgate such regulations 
as are necessary to carry out this subsection.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 3312 of 
title 40, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (e)(1) (as redesignated by 
subsection (a)(1)), by striking ‘‘and (c)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘and (d)’’; 
(2) in the first sentence of subsection (f) (as so 
redesignated), by striking ‘‘and (c)’’ and inserting 
‘‘and (d)’’; and 
(3) in subsection (g) (as so redesignated), by 
striking ‘‘subsection (b), (c), or (d) or for failure to 
carry out any recommendation under subsection (e)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘subsection (b), (d), or (e) or for fail-
ure to carry out any recommendation under sub-
section (f)’’. 
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SEC. 17. ELIMINATION OF STATE MATCHING REQUIRE-
MENT FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY UPGRADES 
AT NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE ARMOR-
IES AND READINESS CENTERS. 
Section 18236(b) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 
subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; 
(2) by striking ‘‘A contribution’’ and inserting 
‘‘(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a contribution’’; 
(3) by striking ‘‘For the purpose’’ and inserting 
‘‘(3) For the purpose’’; and 
(4) by inserting after subparagraph (B) of 
paragraph (1), as so designated, the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) If an armory or readiness center project for 
which a contribution is made under paragraph (4) or (5) 
of section 18233(a) of this title consists of or includes an 
energy efficiency upgrade, the Secretary of Defense shall 
cover— 
‘‘(A) 100 percent of the cost of architectural, 
engineering, and design services related to the up-
grade (including advance architectural, engineering, 
and design services under section 18233(e) of this 
title), as provided in subparagraph (A) of paragraph 
(1); and 
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‘‘(B) 100 percent of the cost of construction re-
lated to the upgrade, notwithstanding subparagraph 
(B) of paragraph (1), and payment of such cost 
shall not be considered in applying the limitation in 
such subparagraph.’’. 
Æ 
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