Sec. 103. Commercial building energy consumption information sharing
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Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration (referred to in this section as the Administrator ) and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall sign, and submit to Congress, an information sharing agreement (referred to in this section as the agreement ) relating to commercial building energy consumption data. The agreement shall— provide that the Administrator shall have access to building-specific data in the Portfolio Manager database of the Environmental Protection Agency; describe the manner in which the Administrator shall incorporate appropriate data (including the data described in subsection (c)) into any Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (referred to in this section as CBECS ) published after the date of enactment of this Act for the purpose of analyzing and estimating building population, size, location, activity, energy usage, and any other relevant building characteristic; and describe and compare— the methodologies that the Energy Information Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and State and local government managers use to maximize the quality, reliability, and integrity of data collected through CBECS, the Portfolio Manager database of the Environmental Protection Agency, and State and local building energy disclosure laws (including regulations), respectively, and the manner in which those methodologies can be improved; and consistencies and variations in data for buildings that were captured in the 2012 CBECS cycle and in the Portfolio Manager database of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The data referred in subsection (b)(2) includes data that— is collected through the Portfolio Manager database of the Environmental Protection Agency; is required to be publicly available on the internet under State and local government building energy disclosure laws (including regulations); and includes information on private sector buildings that are not less than 250,000 square feet. In carrying out the agreement, the Administrator and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall protect information in accordance with— section 552(b)(4) of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the ‘Freedom of Information Act’); subchapter III of chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code; and any other applicable law (including regulations).