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(3) review Federal contracts for all products 
and services for their potential energy efficiency op-
portunities and implications. 
(b) SCHEDULE.—The Federal Energy Management 
Program shall plan, staff, announce, and begin such train-
ing not later than one year after the date of enactment 
of this Act. 
(c) PERSONNEL TO BE TRAINED.—Personnel appro-
priate to receive such training shall be selected by and sent 
for such training from— 
(1) the Department of Defense; 
(2) the Department of Veterans Affairs; 
(3) the Department of Energy; 
(4) the General Services Administration; 
(5) the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment; 
(6) the United States Postal Service; and 
(7) all other Federal agencies and departments 
that enter contracts for buildings, building services, 
electricity and electricity services, natural gas and 
natural gas services, heating and air conditioning 
services, building fuel purchases, and other types of 
procurement or service contracts determined by Fed-
eral Energy Management Program to offer the po-
tential for energy savings and greenhouse gas emis-
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sion reductions if negotiated with such goals in 
mind. 
(d) TRAINERS.—Such training may be conducted by 
attorneys or contract officers with experience in negoti-
ating and managing such contracts from any agency, and 
the Department of Energy shall reimburse their related 
salaries and expenses from amounts appropriated for car-
rying out this section to the extent they are not already 
employees of the Department of Energy. Such training 
may also be provided by private experts hired by the De-
partment of Energy for the purposes of this section, except 
that the Department may not hire experts who are simul-
taneously employed by any company under contract to 
provide such energy efficiency services to the Federal Gov-
ernment. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of En-
ergy for carrying out this section $750,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2008 through 2012. 
SEC. 9086. PROMOTING LONG-TERM ENERGY SAVINGS PER-
FORMANCE CONTRACTS AND VERIFYING SAV-
INGS. 
Section 801(a)(2) of the National Energy Conserva-
tion Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8287(a)(2)) is amended— 
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(1) in subparagraph (D), by inserting ‘‘begin-
ning on the date of the delivery order’’ after ‘‘25 
years’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(F) PROMOTION OF CONTRACTS.—In carrying out 
this section, a Federal agency shall not— 
‘‘(i) establish a Federal agency policy that lim-
its the maximum contract term under subparagraph 
(D) to a period shorter than 25 years; or 
‘‘(ii) limit the total amount of obligations under 
energy savings performance contracts or other pri-
vate financing of energy savings measures. 
‘‘(G) MEASUREMENT AND VERIFICATION REQUIRE-
MENTS FOR PRIVATE FINANCING.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The evaluations and savings 
measurement and verification required under para-
graphs (1) and (3) of section 543(f) shall be used 
by a Federal agency to meet the requirements for— 
‘‘(I) in the case of energy savings perform-
ance contracts, the need for energy audits, cal-
culation of energy savings, and any other eval-
uation of costs and savings needed to imple-
ment the guarantee of savings under this sec-
tion; and 
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‘‘(II) in the case of utility energy service 
contracts, needs that are similar to the pur-
poses described in subclause (I). 
‘‘(ii) 
MODIFICATION
OF
EXISTING
CON-
TRACTS.—Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this subparagraph, each Federal agen-
cy shall, to the maximum extent practicable, modify 
any indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity energy 
savings performance contracts, and other indefinite 
delivery and indefinite quantity contracts using pri-
vate financing, to conform to the amendments made 
by subtitle G of title I of the Energy Efficiency Im-
provement Act of 2007.’’. 
PART 8—ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ENERGY 
EFFICIENCY FINANCING 
SEC. 9089. ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Assistant Secretary of 
Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy shall 
establish an advisory committee to provide advice and rec-
ommendations to the Department of Energy on energy ef-
ficiency finance and investment issues, options, ideas, and 
trends, and to assist the energy community in identifying 
practical ways of lowering costs and increasing invest-
ments in energy efficiency technologies. 
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