S.Amdt. 4319

SA 4319. Mr. PRYOR (for himself and Mr. Bingaman) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2766, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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(3) in subsection (b)(2)(A), by striking “installations of the Department of Defense as may be designated” and inserting “installations of the Department of Defense and related to such vehicles and military support equipment of the Department of Defense as may be designated”;

(4) by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection (g); and

(5) by inserting after subsection (e) the following new subsection:

“(f) Energy Efficiency in New Construction.--

“(1) The Secretary shall ensure that all military construction projects carried out under this chapter meet the energy efficiency performance standards prescribed pursuant to section 305(a) of the Energy Conservation and Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6834(a)).

“(2) The Secretary shall, except as provided in paragraph (3), ensure that all residential buildings constructed by or for the Department, including military family housing units and military unaccompanied housing units acquired or constructed under subchapter IV of this chapter--

“(A) be Energy Star qualified;

“(B) be equipped with Energy Star products and FEMP designated products; and

“(C) have an Energy Star advanced lighting package.

“(3) The Secretary may waive a requirement under paragraph (2) with respect to a military construction project if the Secretary determines and notifies the congressional defense committees in writing that--

“(A) the building is a Federal building that meets the energy efficiency performance standards prescribed pursuant to section 305(a)(3) of the Energy Conservation and Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6834(a)(3));

“(B) compliance with such requirement is not cost-effective over the life of the building, taking energy cost savings into account; or

“(C) no Energy Star building or product or FEMP designated product is reasonably available that meets the functional requirements of the agency.

“(4) In this section, the terms ‘Energy Star product' and ‘FEMP product' have the meanings given those terms in section 553(a) of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8259b).”.