Sec. 2843. Amendment of Unified Facilities Criteria to promote energy efficient military installations
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To the extent practicable, the Secretary of Defense shall amend the Unified Facilities Criteria relating to military construction planning and design to ensure that building practices and standards of the Department of Defense incorporate the latest consensus-based codes and standards for energy efficiency and conservation, including the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code and the ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2019. The Secretary of Defense shall complete the amendment process required by subsection
(a)in a timely manner so that any Department of Defense Form 1391 submitted to Congress in connection with the budget submission for fiscal year 2024 and thereafter complies with the Unified Facilities Criteria, as amended pursuant to such subsection. Not later than February 1, 2024, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report— describing the extent to which the Unified Facilities Criteria, as amended pursuant to subsection (a), incorporate the latest consensus-based codes and standards for energy efficiency and conservation, including the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code and the ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2019, as required by such subsection; and in the case of any instance in which the Unified Facilities Criteria continues to deviate from such consensus-based codes and standards for energy efficiency and conservation, identifying the deviation and explaining the reasons for the deviation.