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(1) describes the status of the Federal high-per-
formance green building initiatives in effect as of the 
date of the report, including— 
(A) the extent to which the programs are 
being carried out in accordance with this part; 
and 
(B) the status of funding requests and ap-
propriations for those programs; 
(2) identifies within the planning, budgeting, 
and construction process all types of Federal facility 
procedures that inhibit new and existing Federal fa-
cilities from becoming high-performance green build-
ings; 
(3) identifies inconsistencies, as reported to the 
Advisory Committee, in Federal law with respect to 
product acquisition guidelines and high-performance 
product guidelines; 
(4) recommends language for uniform stand-
ards for use by Federal agencies in environmentally 
responsible acquisition; 
(5) in coordination with the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget, reviews the budget process for 
capital programs with respect to alternatives for— 
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(A) restructuring of budgets to require the 
use of complete energy and environmental cost 
accounting; 
(B) using operations expenditures in budg-
et-related decisions while simultaneously incor-
porating productivity and health measures (as 
those measures can be quantified by the Office 
of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings, 
with the assistance of universities and national 
laboratories); 
(C) permitting Federal agencies to retain 
all identified savings accrued as a result of the 
use of life-cycle costing for future high-perform-
ance green building initiatives; and 
(D) identifying short-term and long-term 
cost savings that accrue from high-performance 
green buildings, including those relating to 
health and productivity; 
(6) identifies green, self-sustaining technologies 
to address the operational needs of Federal facilities 
in times of national security emergencies, natural 
disasters, or other dire emergencies; 
(7) summarizes and highlights development, at 
the State and local level, of high-performance green 
building initiatives, including executive orders, poli-
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‘‘(q) STATE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY EF-
FICIENCY ACCOUNT PROGRAM.—(1) The Secretary shall 
establish, not later than December 31, 2009, a State re-
newable energy account program. 
‘‘(2) All money collected by the Secretary from the 
alternative compliance payments under subsection (k) 
shall be deposited into the State renewable energy and en-
ergy efficiency account established pursuant to this sub-
section. 
‘‘(3) Proceeds deposited in the State renewable en-
ergy and energy efficiency account shall be used by the 
Secretary, subject to annual appropriations, for a program 
to provide grants to the State agency responsible for ad-
ministering a fund to promote renewable energy genera-
tion and energy efficiency for customers of the state, or 
an alternative agency designated by the state, or if no such 
agency exists, to the state agency developing State energy 
conservation plans under section 363 of the Energy Policy 
and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6322) for the purposes 
of promoting renewable energy production and providing 
energy assistance and weatherization services to low-in-
come consumers. 
‘‘(4) The Secretary may issue guidelines and criteria 
for grants awarded under this subsection. At least 75 per-
cent of the funds provided to each State shall be used for
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(B) the development, construction, finan-
cial, and real estate industries; 
(C) building owners and operators from 
the public and private sectors; 
(D) academic and research organizations, 
including at least one national laboratory with 
extensive commercial building energy expertise; 
(E) building code agencies and organiza-
tions, including a model energy code-setting or-
ganization; 
(F) independent high-performance green 
building associations or councils; 
(G) experts in indoor air quality and envi-
ronmental factors; 
(H) experts in intelligent buildings and in-
tegrated building information systems; 
(I) utility energy efficiency programs; and 
(J) nongovernmental energy efficiency or-
ganizations. 
(3) FUNDING.—The Secretary may make pay-
ments to the Consortium pursuant to the terms of 
a public-private partnership for such activities of the 
Consortium undertaken under such a partnership as 
described in this part directly to the Consortium or 
through one or more of its members. 
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(g) REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, and biennially thereafter, the 
Commercial Director, in consultation with the Consor-
tium, shall submit to Congress a report that— 
(1) describes the status of the high-performance 
green building initiatives under this part and other 
Federal programs affecting commercial high-per-
formance green buildings in effect as of the date of 
the report, including— 
(A) the extent to which the programs are 
being carried out in accordance with this part; 
and 
(B) the status of funding requests and ap-
propriations for those programs; and 
(2) summarizes and highlights development, at 
the State and local level, of high-performance green 
building initiatives, including executive orders, poli-
cies, or laws adopted promoting high-performance 
green building (including the status of implementa-
tion of those initiatives). 
SEC. 9044. ZERO-ENERGY COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS INITIA-
TIVE. 
(a) GOAL.—The Commercial Director, in partnership 
with the Consortium, shall periodically study and refine 
a national goal to reduce commercial building energy use 
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and achieve zero-net-energy commercial buildings. Unless 
the Commercial Director concludes that such targets are 
unachievable or unrealistic, the goal shall include objec-
tives that— 
(1) all new commercial buildings constructed 
after the beginning of 2025 are zero-net-energy com-
mercial buildings; 
(2) by 2035, 50 percent of the then existing 
stock of commercial buildings that were constructed 
before 2025 are zero-net-energy commercial build-
ings; and 
(3) by 2050, all commercial buildings are zero- 
net-energy commercial buildings. 
(b) STRATEGY.—The Commercial Director, in part-
nership with the Consortium, shall develop a market 
transformation strategy intended to achieve the adopted 
goal by significantly accelerating the development and 
widespread deployment of energy efficiency technologies, 
practices, and policies in both new and existing commer-
cial buildings, and by leveraging State, utility, and private 
sector commercial building energy efficiency programs. 
(c) INITIATIVE.—The Commercial Director, in part-
nership with the Consortium, shall implement an initiative 
to carry out the strategy that may include— 
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necessary to notify individuals to whom services are pro-
vided of the protections provided by this section and of 
the requirements for obtaining those protections, including 
the requirement to submit an affidavit stating that the 
individual intends to return to the place of residence where 
the individual is otherwise qualified to vote. 
(d) PERIOD
OF APPLICABILITY.—The period de-
scribed in this subsection is, with respect to an individual 
who is absent from a place of residence as a result of evac-
uation from an area affected by a major natural disaster, 
the period— 
(1) which begins on the date of the individual’s 
evacuation; and 
(2) which ends on the date of the second regu-
larly scheduled general election for Federal office 
(or, if a runoff election is held with respect to that 
second regularly scheduled general election for Fed-
eral office, the date of the runoff election) which oc-
curs after the date of the individual’s evacuation. 
SEC. 5. MAJOR NATURAL DISASTER DEFINED. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘major natural disaster’’ means 
a major disaster declared by the President under section 
102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-
gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122). 
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(2) REPEAL
OF
CREDIT
PHASEOUT.—The 
amendments made by subsection (b)(1) shall apply 
to taxable years ending after December 31, 2008. 
SEC. 11002. PRODUCTION CREDIT FOR ELECTRICITY PRO-
DUCED FROM MARINE RENEWABLES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (1) of section 45(c) 
(relating to resources) is amended by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end of subparagraph (G), by striking the period at 
the end of subparagraph (H) and inserting ‘‘, and’’, and 
by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(I) marine and hydrokinetic renewable en-
ergy.’’. 
(b) MARINE RENEWABLES.—Subsection (c) of sec-
tion 45 is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph: 
‘‘(10) MARINE
AND
HYDROKINETIC
RENEW-
ABLE ENERGY.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘marine and 
hydrokinetic renewable energy’ means energy 
derived from— 
‘‘(i) waves, tides, and currents in 
oceans, estuaries, and tidal areas, 
‘‘(ii) free flowing water in rivers, 
lakes, and streams,
108TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3056
AN ACT
To clarify the boundaries of the John H. Chafee Coast
Barrier Resources System Cedar Keys Unit P25 on Oth-
erwise Protected Area P25P.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
108TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3059
AN ACT
To designate the facility of the United States Post-
al Service located at 304 West Michigan Street
in Stuttgart, Arkansas, as the ‘‘Lloyd L. Burke
Post Office’’.
shall submit to the Congress a report identifying the num-
ber of additional mortgagors served using the automated 
process established pursuant to section 257 of the National 
Housing Act (as added by the amendment made by sub-
section (a) of this section) and the impact of such process 
and the insurance of mortgages pursuant to such process 
on the safety and soundness of the insurance funds under 
the National Housing Act of which such mortgages are obli-
gations. 
SEC. 125. HOMEOWNERSHIP PRESERVATION. 
The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
and the Commissioner of the Federal Housing Administra-
tion, in consultation with industry, the Neighborhood Rein-
vestment Corporation, and other entities involved in fore-
closure prevention activities, shall—
(1) develop and implement a plan to improve the 
Federal Housing Administration’s loss mitigation 
process; and 
(2) report such plan to the Committee on Bank-
ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and 
the Committee on Financial Services of the House of 
Representatives.
927 
‘‘(A) ALLOCATION AMONG PUBLIC POWER 
PROVIDERS.—After the Secretary determines 
the qualified projects of public power providers 
which are appropriate for receiving an alloca-
tion of the national new clean renewable energy 
bond limitation, the Secretary shall, to the max-
imum extent practicable, make allocations 
among such projects in such manner that the 
amount allocated to each such project bears the 
same ratio to the cost of such project as the 
limitation under subparagraph (2)(A) bears to 
the cost of all such projects. 
‘‘(B) ALLOCATION
AMONG
COOPERATIVE 
ELECTRIC
COMPANIES.—The Secretary shall 
make allocations of the amount of the national 
new clean renewable energy bond limitation de-
scribed in paragraph (2)(B) among qualified 
projects of cooperative electric companies in 
such manner as the Secretary determines ap-
propriate. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section— 
‘‘(1) QUALIFIED RENEWABLE ENERGY FACIL-
ITY.—The term ‘qualified renewable energy facility’ 
means a qualified facility (as determined under sec-
tion 45(d) without regard to paragraphs (8) and
IV 
House Calendar No. 184 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1248 
[Report No. 111–463] 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4715) to amend the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the National Estuary Pro-
gram, and for other purposes, waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) 
of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported 
from the Committee on Rules, and providing for consideration of motions 
to suspend the rules. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 14, 2010 
Ms. PINGREE of Maine, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following 
resolution; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
printed 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4715) to amend 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize 
the National Estuary Program, and for other purposes, 
waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with 
respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported 
from the Committee on Rules, and providing for consid-
eration of motions to suspend the rules. 
Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this 
resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of 
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108TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3059
AN ACT
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service
located at 304 West Michigan Street in Stuttgart, Ar-
kansas, as the ‘‘Lloyd L. Burke Post Office’’.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The requirements of sub-
sections (a) through (d) do not apply with respect 
to— 
‘‘(A) the automated loan underwriting sys-
tem of an enterprise in existence as of the date 
of enactment of the Federal Housing Finance 
Regulatory Reform Act of 2008, including any 
upgrade to the technology, operating system, or 
software to operate the underwriting system; 
‘‘(B) any modification to the mortgage 
terms and conditions or mortgage underwriting 
criteria relating to the mortgages that are pur-
chased or guaranteed by an enterprise, provided 
that such modifications do not alter the under-
lying transaction so as to include services or fi-
nancing, other than residential mortgage financ-
ing; or 
‘‘(C) any other activity that is substantially 
similar, as determined by rule of the Director 
to— 
‘‘(i) the activities described in subpara-
graphs (A) and (B); and 
‘‘(ii) other activities that have been ap-
proved by the Director in accordance with 
this section.
108TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3062
AN ACT
To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to authorize the
Secretary of the Interior to issue separately, for
the same area, a lease for tar sand and a lease
for oil and gas, and for other purposes.
611 
(1) the Federal Director and the Commercial 
Director shall submit to the Secretary a report that 
describes the status of the demonstration projects; 
and 
(2) each University at which a demonstration 
project under this section is conducted shall submit 
to the Secretary a report that describes the status 
of the demonstration projects under this section. 
SEC. 9049. ENERGY EFFICIENCY FOR DATA CENTER BUILD-
INGS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.— 
(1) Not later than 90 days after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy and 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency shall jointly, after consulting with informa-
tion technology industry and other interested par-
ties, initiate a voluntary national information pro-
gram for those types of data centers and data center 
equipment and facilities that are widely used and for 
which there is a potential for significant data center 
energy savings as a result of such program. 
(2) Such program shall— 
(A) consistent with the objectives of para-
graph (1), determine the type of data center 
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and data center equipment and facilities to be 
covered under such program; and 
(B) include specifications, measurements, 
and benchmarks that will enable data center op-
erators to make more informed decisions about 
the energy efficiency and costs of data centers, 
and that— 
(i) reflect the total energy consump-
tion of data centers, including both equip-
ment and facilities, taking into account— 
(I) the performance and utiliza-
tion of servers, data storage devices, 
and 
other 
information 
technology 
equipment; 
(II) the efficiency of heating, 
ventilation, and air conditioning, cool-
ing, and power conditioning systems; 
(III) energy savings from the 
adoption of software and data man-
agement techniques; and 
(IV) other factors determined by 
the organization described in sub-
section (b); 
(ii) allow for creation of separate 
specifications, measurements, and bench-
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110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3174 
AN ACT 
To amend titles 28 and 10, United States Code, to allow 
for certiorari review of certain cases denied relief or 
review by the United States Court of Appeals for the 
Armed Forces. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Equal Justice for Our 
Military Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF AP-
PEALS FOR THE ARMED FORCES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1259 of title 28, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘or denied’’ 
after ‘‘granted’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (4), by inserting ‘‘or denied’’ 
after ‘‘granted’’. 
(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— 
Section 867a(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘The Supreme Court may not review by 
a writ of certiorari under this section any action of the 
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces in refusing to 
grant a petition for review.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 27, 
2008. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3174 
AN ACT 
To amend titles 28 and 10, United States Code, to 
allow for certiorari review of certain cases denied 
relief or review by the United States Court of 
Appeals for the Armed Forces.
I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3174 
To amend titles 28 and 10, United States Code, to allow for certiorari 
review of certain cases denied relief or review by the United States 
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 25, 2007 
Mrs. DAVIS of California (for herself, Ms. CARSON, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Mr. 
SKELTON, and Mr. ACKERMAN) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend titles 28 and 10, United States Code, to allow 
for certiorari review of certain cases denied relief or 
review by the United States Court of Appeals for the 
Armed Forces. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Equal Justice for Our 
Military Act of 2007’’. 
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SEC. 2. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF AP-
PEALS FOR THE ARMED FORCES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1259 of title 28, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘or denied’’ 
after ‘‘granted’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (4), by inserting ‘‘or denied’’ 
after ‘‘granted’’. 
(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— 
Section 867a(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘The Supreme Court may not review by 
a writ of certiorari under this section any action of the 
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces in refusing to 
grant a petition for review.’’. 
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by inserting after section 1321 (as added by section 1123 
of this Act) the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 1322. HOUSING PRICE INDEX. 
‘‘The Director shall establish and maintain a method 
of assessing the national average 1-family house price for 
use for adjusting the conforming loan limitations of the en-
terprises. In establishing such method, the Director shall 
take into consideration the monthly survey of all major 
lenders conducted by the Federal Housing Finance Agency 
to determine the national average 1-family house price, the 
House Price Index maintained by the Office of Federal 
Housing Enterprise Oversight of the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development before the effective date of the 
Federal Housing Finance Regulatory Reform Act of 2008, 
any appropriate house price indexes of the Bureau of the 
Census of the Department of Commerce, and any other in-
dexes or measures that the Director considers appropriate.’’. 
SEC. 1125. ANNUAL HOUSING REPORT. 
(a) REPEAL.—Section 1324 of the Federal Housing 
Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 
(12 U.S.C. 4544) is hereby repealed. 
(b) ANNUAL HOUSING REPORT.—The Federal Housing 
Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 
is amended by inserting after section 1323 the following:
IIB 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3174 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 29 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 17), 2008 
Received 
OCTOBER 2 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 17), 2008 
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
AN ACT 
To amend titles 28 and 10, United States Code, to allow 
for certiorari review of certain cases denied relief or 
review by the United States Court of Appeals for the 
Armed Forces. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Equal Justice for Our 
Military Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF AP-
PEALS FOR THE ARMED FORCES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1259 of title 28, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘or denied’’ 
after ‘‘granted’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (4), by inserting ‘‘or denied’’ 
after ‘‘granted’’. 
(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— 
Section 867a(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘The Supreme Court may not review by 
a writ of certiorari under this section any action of the 
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces in refusing to 
grant a petition for review.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 27, 
2008. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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