Sec. 385. Data transparency and sharing
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The Administrator shall, to help inform owners, managers, tenants, and the market at large about a covered property’s energy and water performance, annually make available on a publicly accessible website the subset of data, determined in accordance with paragraph (3), that is submitted to the Administrator for the previous calendar year for such covered property. The subset of data made available under this section for a covered property shall first be made available to the public beginning the year after the owner of such covered property is first required to make a benchmarking submission for such covered property.
Not later than 6 months after the enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall determine the subset of data submitted to the Administrator to be made publicly available under paragraph (1), which shall include gross floor area and the information described in section 383(d)(2)(B), as the Administrator determines appropriate. The Administrator may determine if any data shall be excluded from publication under this subsection because it is not in the public interest. The Administrator may provide data regarding a covered property that is not anonymized data from benchmarking submissions to any utility serving the covered property or to any Federal, State, county or city-managed energy efficiency or management program, provided that the data will be used only for purposes of offering programs, services, and incentives related to energy and water efficiency and management, and provided that the Administrator has first obtained the covered property owner’s written or electronic permission to so share such data.
The Administrator may disclose any data from benchmarking submissions to a third party for academic or other non-commercial research purposes provided that such data is anonymized data.