S.Amdt. 1846

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   Change 1: Rewrites section 301

   Replaces

   In S. 1392 · Placed on Calendar Senate

   Struck: SEC. 301. ADOPTION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY POWER SAVINGS TECHNIQUES BY FEDERAL AGENCIES.

   Struck: (a) In General.--Not later than 360 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and the Administrator of General Services, shall issue guidance for Federal agencies to employ advanced tools promoting energy efficiency and energy savings through the use of information and communications technologies, including computer hardware, operation and maintenance processes, energy efficiency software, and power management tools.

   Struck: (b) Reports on Plans and Savings.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the issuance of the guidance under subsection (a), each Federal agency shall submit to the Secretary a report that describes--

   Struck: (1) the plan of the agency for implementing the guidance within the agency; and

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   Struck: (2) estimated energy and financial savings from employing the tools and processes described in subsection (a).

   Inserted: SEC. 301. ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND ENERGY-SAVING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES.

   Inserted: Section 543 of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8253) is amended--

   Inserted: (1) by redesignating the second subsection (f) (relating to large capital energy investments) as subsection (g); and

   Inserted: (2) by adding at the end the following:

   Inserted: "(h) Federal Implementation Strategy for Energy-efficient and Energy-Saving Information and Communications Technologies.--

   Inserted: "(1) In general.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this subsection, each Federal agency shall collaborate with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (referred to in this subsection as the 'Director') to develop an implementation strategy (including best-practices and measurement and verification techniques) for the maintenance, purchase, and use by the Federal agency of energy-efficient and energy-saving information and communications technologies and practices.

   Inserted: "(2) Content.--Each implementation strategy shall be flexible, cost-effective, and based on the specific operating requirements and statutory mission of the agency.

   Inserted: "(3) Administration.--In developing an implementation strategy, each Federal agency shall--

   Inserted: "(A) consider information and communications technologies (referred to in this subsection as 'ICT') and related infrastructure and practices, such as--

   Inserted: "(i) advanced metering infrastructure;

   Inserted: "(ii) ICT services and products;

   Inserted: "(iii) efficient data center strategies and methods of increasing ICT asset and related infrastructure utilization;

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   Inserted: "(iv) ICT and related infrastructure power management;

   Inserted: "(v) building information modeling, including building energy management; and

   Inserted: "(vi) secure telework and travel substitution tools; and

   Inserted: "(B) ensure that the agency realizes the savings and rewards brought about through increased efficiency and utilization.

   Inserted: "(4) Performance goals.--

   Inserted: "(A) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Director, in consultation with the Secretary, shall establish performance goals for evaluating the efforts of Federal agencies in improving the maintenance, purchase, and use of energy-efficient and energy-saving information and communications technology systems and practices.

   Inserted: "(B) Best practices.--The Director shall supplement the performance goals established under this paragraph with recommendations on best practices for the attainment of the performance goals, to include a requirement for agencies to evaluate the use of energy savings performance contracting and utility energy services contracting as preferred acquisition methods.

   Inserted: "(C) Administration.--The performance goals established under this paragraph shall--

   Inserted: "(i) measure information technology costs over a specific time period of 3 to 5 years;

   Inserted: "(ii) measure cost savings attained via the use of energy-efficient and energy-saving information and communications solutions during the same time period; and

   Inserted: "(iii) provide, to the maximum extent practicable, a complete picture of all costs and savings, including energy costs and savings.

   Inserted: "(5) Reports.--

   Inserted: "(A) Agency reports.--Each Federal agency subject to the requirements of this subsection shall include in the report of the agency under section 527 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17143) a description of the efforts and results of the agency under this subsection.

   Inserted: "(B) OMB government efficiency reports and scorecards.--Effective beginning not later than October 1, 2013, the Director shall include in the annual report and scorecard of the Director required under section 528 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17144) a description of the efforts and results of Federal agencies under this subsection.

   Inserted: "(C) Use of existing reporting structures.--The Director may require Federal agencies to submit any information required to be submitted under this subsection though reporting structures in use as of the date of enactment of the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013.".

   Original wording

   Strike section 301 and insert the following:

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   Change 2: Adds SEC. 304. ENERGY EFFICIENT DATA CENTERS at the end of title III

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   In S. 1392 · Placed on Calendar Senate

   (b) Administration.--Nothing in this section applies to the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) of the Department of Defense.

   Inserted: SEC. 304. ENERGY EFFICIENT DATA CENTERS.

   Inserted: Section 453 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17112) is amended--

   Inserted: (1) in subsection (c), by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:

   Inserted: "(1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013, the Secretary and the Administrator shall--

   Inserted: "(A) designate an established information technology industry organization to coordinate the program described in subsection (b); and

   Inserted: "(B) make the designation public, including on an appropriate website.";

   Inserted: (2) by striking subsections (e) and (f) and inserting the following:

   Inserted: "(e) Study.--The Secretary, with assistance from the Administrator, shall--

   Inserted: "(1) not later than December 31, 2013, make available to the public an update to the Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency published on August 2, 2007, under section 1 of Public Law 109-431 (120 Stat. 2920), that provides--

   Inserted: "(A) a comparison and gap analysis of the estimates and projections contained in the original report with new data regarding the period from 2007 through 2012;

   Inserted: "(B) an analysis considering the impact of information and communications technologies asset and related infrastructure utilization solutions, to include virtualization and cloud computing-based solutions, in the public and private sectors; and

   Inserted: "(C) updated projections and recommendations for best practices; and

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   Inserted: "(2) collaborate with the organization designated under subsection (c) in preparing the report.

   Inserted: "(f) Data Center Energy Practitioner Program.--

   Inserted: "(1) In general.--The Secretary, in collaboration with the organization designated under subsection (c) and in consultation with the Administrator for the Office of E-Government and Information Technology within the Office of Management and Budget, shall maintain a data center energy practitioner program that leads to the certification of energy practitioners qualified to evaluate the energy usage and efficiency opportunities in data centers.

   Inserted: "(2) Evaluations.--Each Federal agency shall have the data centers of the agency evaluated every 4 years by energy practitioners certified pursuant to the program, whenever practicable using certified practitioners employed by the agency.";

   Inserted: (3) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (j); and

   Inserted: (4) by inserting after subsection (f) the following:

   Inserted: "(g) Open Data Initiative.--

   Inserted: "(1) In general.--The Secretary, in collaboration with the organization designated under subsection (c) and in consultation with the Administrator for the Office of E-Government and Information Technology within the Office of Management and Budget, shall establish an open data initiative for Federal data center energy usage data, with the purpose of making the data available and accessible in a manner that empowers further data center innovation while protecting United States national security interests.

   Inserted: "(2) Administration.--In establishing the initiative, the Secretary shall consider use of the online Data Center Maturity Model.

   Inserted: "(h) International Specifications and Metrics.--The Secretary, in collaboration with the organization designated under subsection (c), shall actively participate in efforts to harmonize global specifications and metrics for data center energy efficiency.

   Inserted: "(i) ICT Asset Utilization Metric.--The Secretary, in collaboration with the organization designated under subsection (c), shall assist in the development of an efficiency metric that measures the energy efficiency of the overall data center, including information and communications technology systems and related infrastructure.".

   Original wording

   At the end of title III, add the following:

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