section not later than 30 days after receiving a completed 
application. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator 
such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section. 
SEC. 12. ACCOUNTABILITY OF FEDERAL AGENCIES. 
(a) AGENCY ACTIONS.—Each Federal agency shall— 
(1) increase the energy efficiency of its facilities 
and operations; 
(2) annually transmit to the President and the 
Congress a report on the energy efficiency increases 
and carbon emission reductions associated with its 
facilities and operation; and 
(3) reward agency employees who make signifi-
cant contributions to the reduction of agency carbon 
emissions. 
(b) ENERGY MANAGER TRAINING.—The energy man-
ager, designated under section 304 of Executive Order No. 
13123, of each Federal agency shall be required to receive 
training approved by the Administrator on green building 
design, construction, use, and decommissioning, and to re-
ceive an annual refresher course approved by the Adminis-
trator on those subjects. 
(c) ENERGY EFFICIENCY BUDGET REPORT.—Not 
later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this 
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Act, the Comptroller General shall transmit to the Con-
gress a report comparing the energy efficiency budget re-
quest by the President for each Federal agency for fiscal 
years 2006 and 2007 with the requests from the agency 
to the President for energy efficiency budget amounts for 
those fiscal years. 
SEC. 13. STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT BLOCK GRANTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator shall make 
block grants to State and local governments. Such grants 
may be used for— 
(1) the renovation of existing buildings to 
achieve the standards established by the National 
Institute of Building Sciences under section 8(a); 
(2) redesigning existing plans for new buildings 
to enable those plans to meet such standards; 
(3) research and development of technologies to 
enable and support green building design and the 
achievement of such standards; and 
(4) public education and training, including 
training for homeowners, business owners, first time 
home buyers, and contractors, on green buildings 
and their construction, use, and decommissioning. 
(b) MANDATORY USE.—All block grants received 
under this section shall be used, at least in part, for the 
purpose described in subsection (a)(4). 
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(c) ELIGIBILITY.—No State or local government may 
receive a block grant under this section unless it dem-
onstrates to the satisfaction of the Administrator that— 
(1) the State or local government (and in the 
case of a State, all the local jurisdictions within the 
State) has— 
(A) adopted the standards established 
under section 8(a); and 
(B) fully implemented such standards; or 
(2) technical barriers exist that prevent such 
adoption and implementation. 
(d) RESEARCH
AND
DEVELOPMENT
COORDINA-
TION.—The Administrator shall monitor activities de-
scribed in subsection (a)(3) to prevent unnecessary dupli-
cation of research and development efforts. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator for 
making grants under this section $1,000,000,000 for the 
period encompassing fiscal years 2009 through 2018. 
SEC. 14. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Ad-
ministrator for carrying out this Act, other than sections 
11 and 13 $50,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2009 
through 2013. 
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SEC. 15. INCREASE AND EXTENSION OF ENERGY EFFICIENT 
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS DEDUCTION. 
(a) INCREASE.—Section 179D of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 (relating to energy efficient commercial 
buildings deduction) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(1)(A) by striking ‘‘$1.80’’ 
and inserting ‘‘$2.25’’, and 
(2) in subsection (d)(1)(A) by striking ‘‘by sub-
stituting’’ and all that follows through the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘by substituting ‘$.75’ for 
‘$2.25’.’’. 
(b) EXTENSION.—Subsection (h) of section 179D of 
such Code (relating to termination) is amended by striking 
‘‘December 31, 2008’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 
2013’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to property placed in service after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, in taxable years 
ending after such date. 
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