Sec. 6. Reporting system for voluntary reporting of environmental impacts of artificial intelligence
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The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of Energy, the consortium convened under section 5, and such others as the Director considers appropriate, develop a system for voluntary reporting by voluntary reporting entities of the full range of environmental impacts of artificial intelligence. The Director shall develop guidelines for voluntary reporting entities on how to participate in the voluntary reporting system developed under subsection (a).
Such guidelines may include guidelines on how to calculate and report energy consumption, water consumption, pollution, and electronic-waste associated with the full lifecycle of artificial intelligence models and hardware, as well as other positive and negative impacts of artificial intelligence use, as determined by the Director. Before finalizing the guidelines under paragraph (1), the Director shall solicit comments from the public on a draft version of the guidelines. The Director shall, to the maximum extent practicable and with consideration to privileged business information, make submissions to the voluntary reporting system under subsection
(a)available on a public website.