Sec. 161. PROCUREMENT AND IDENTIFICATION OF ENERGY EFFICIENT PRODUCTS
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## SEC. 161 PROCUREMENT AND IDENTIFICATION OF ENERGY EFFICIENT PRODUCTS ###
(a)Procurement The Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency, each shall undertake a program to include energy efficient products in carrying out their procurement and supply functions. ###
(b)Identification Program The Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, each shall implement, in conjunction with carrying out their procurement and supply functions, a program to identify and designate those energy efficient products that offer significant potential savings, using, to the extent practicable, the life cycle cost methods and procedures developed under section 544 of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8254). The Secretary of Energy shall, to the extent necessary to carry out this section and after consultation with the aforementioned agency heads, provide estimates of the degree of relative energy efficiency of products. ###
(c)Guidelines The Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, in consultation with the Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency, shall issue guidelines to encourage the acquisition and use by all Federal agencies of products identified pursuant to this section. The Secretary of Defense and the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency shall consider, and place emphasis on, the acquisition of such products as part of the Agency's ongoing review of military specifications. ###
(d)Report to Congress Not later than December 31 of 1993 and of each year thereafter, the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, the Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency, shall report on the progress, status, activities, and results of the programs under subsections (a), (b), and (c). The report shall include— ####
(1)the types and functions of each product identified under subsection (b), and efforts undertaken by the Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency to encourage the acquisition and use of such products; ####
(2)the actions taken by the Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency to identify products under subsection (b), the barriers which inhibit implementation of identification of such products, and recommendations for legislative action, if necessary; ####
(3)progress on the development and issuance of guidelines under subsection (c); ####
(4)an indication of whether energy cost savings technologies identified by the Advanced Building Technology Council, under section 809(h) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1701j–2), have been used in the identification of products under subsection (b); ####
(5)an estimate of the potential cost savings to the Federal Government from acquiring products identified under subsection
(b)with respect to which energy is a significant component of life cycle cost, based on the quantities of such products that could be utilized throughout the Government; and ####
(6)the actual quantities acquired of products described in paragraph (5). **[**[42 U.S.C. 8262g](/us/usc/t42/s8262g)**]**
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Sec. 161
PROCUREMENT AND IDENTIFICATION OF ENERGY EFFICIENT PRODUCTS
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