High-Performance Green Buildings Act

Bill: 108-s-2620
Sponsor: Sen. Jeffords, James M. [I-VT]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Academic performance
Air conditioning
Air pollution control
Auditing
Bikeways
Building construction
Building materials
Chemicals
Child safety
Commerce
Commuting
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Conservation of natural resources
Cost accounting
Cost effectiveness
Data banks
Decision making
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Educational research
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee training
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Environmental assessment
Environmental health
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal budgets
Federal employees
Federal office buildings
Federal officials
Fungi
General Services Administration
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Green products
Health
Health information systems
Heating
Higher education
Indoor air pollution
Infrastructure
Internet
Labor and Employment
Labor productivity
Landscape architecture
Lead
Learning
Lighting
Maintenance and repair
Mass rapid transit
Noise
Occupational health and safety
Pest control
Planning-programming-budgeting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public-private partnerships
Radon
Recycling of waste products
Research and development
School buildings
School districts
School health programs
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Special education
Standards
Student transportation
Technology assessment
Transportation and Public Works
Walking
Waste reduction
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Water pollution control
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
High-Performance Green Buildings Act - Directs the Administrator of General Services to create, within the General Services Administration (GSA), and appoint an individual to, a position to establish and oversee the Office of High-Performance Green Buildings within GSA. Directs the Office to establish an interagency steering committee.
 
Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide grants to State and local educational agencies for use in: (1) providing technical assistance for and assisting implementation of the EPA's Tools for Schools Program; and (2) the development of State-level school environmental quality plans.
 
Requires the EPA Administrator to develop school site acquisition guidelines that: (1) take into account the special vulnerability of children to chemical exposure where the potential for site contamination is assessed; (2) include an analysis of means for maximizing transportation choices.
 
Requires the EPA Administrator, in partnership with the Secretary of Education, to carry out an education research program in support of the education-related provisions of this Act.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to review the budget process and develop and submit to Congress an implementation plan for life-cycle costing that identifies and incorporates cost savings that accrue from high-performance green buildings.
 
Requires the Office to establish guidelines for, and carry out, specified demonstration projects at Federal buildings and universities to contribute to the research goals of the Office.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7830-7833)
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7829-7830)
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in Senate