S.Amdt. 5589
What it does: Adds SEC. 2832. REPORT ON INCREASED USE OF SOLAR POWER ON PENTAGON RESERVATION on page 457, line 8
Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI)What it changes
1 change to S. 3001
Adds SEC. 2832. REPORT ON INCREASED USE OF SOLAR POWER ON PENTAGON RESERVATION on page 457, line 8
Adds a sectionPrinted pageInserted: SEC. 2832. REPORT ON INCREASED USE OF SOLAR POWER ON PENTAGON RESERVATION.
Inserted: (a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the feasibility, costs, and benefits of installing and operating equipment and facilities to collect and distribute solar power on the Pentagon Reservation.
Inserted: (b) Content.--The report required under subsection (a) shall include the following:
Inserted: (1) A description of the solar power equipment and facilities currently in operation on the Pentagon Reservation.
Inserted: (2) The amount of electricity generated annually by such equipment and facilities, and the percentage of the total power requirements at the Pentagon Reservation currently met by solar power produced on the Reservation.
Inserted: (3) An analysis of the feasibility of installing additional solar power equipment and facilities on the Pentagon Reservation to meet all or part of the remaining power requirements of the Pentagon Reservation, including consideration of at least two alternative approaches, at least one of which shall be the installation of individual or collective covered parking structures equipped with solar collection panels.
Inserted: (4) An analysis of the costs and benefits, over five-year, ten-year, and thirty-year periods, of the options analyzed under paragraph (3).
Inserted: (5) An analysis of potential acquisition methods, including the use of military construction funds and the use of energy savings performance contracts.
Original wording
On page 457, before line 8, insert the following:
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As printed
SA 5589. Mr. LEVIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 3001, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
On page 457, before line 8, insert the following:
SEC. 2832. REPORT ON INCREASED USE OF SOLAR POWER ON PENTAGON RESERVATION.
(a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the feasibility, costs, and benefits of installing and operating equipment and facilities to collect and distribute solar power on the Pentagon Reservation.
(b) Content.--The report required under subsection (a) shall include the following:
(1) A description of the solar power equipment and facilities currently in operation on the Pentagon Reservation.
(2) The amount of electricity generated annually by such equipment and facilities, and the percentage of the total power requirements at the Pentagon Reservation currently met by solar power produced on the Reservation.
(3) An analysis of the feasibility of installing additional solar power equipment and facilities on the Pentagon Reservation to meet all or part of the remaining power requirements of the Pentagon Reservation, including consideration of at least two alternative approaches, at least one of which shall be the installation of individual or collective covered parking structures equipped with solar collection panels.
(4) An analysis of the costs and benefits, over five-year, ten-year, and thirty-year periods, of the options analyzed under paragraph (3).
(5) An analysis of potential acquisition methods, including the use of military construction funds and the use of energy savings performance contracts.
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Senate amendment submitted
September 15, 2008