S.Amdt. 1933

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   Change 1: Rewrites page 45, lines 3–24

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   Inserted: SEC. 301. ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND ENERGY-SAVING INFORMATION 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 Technologies.--

   Inserted: "(1) Definitions.--In this subsection:

   Inserted: "(A) Director.--The term 'Director' means the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

   Inserted: "(B) Information technology.--The term 'information technology' has the meaning given the term in section 11101 of title 40, United States Code.

   Inserted: "(2) Development of implementation strategy.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this subsection, each Federal agency shall collaborate with 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 technologies.

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

   Inserted: "(A) advanced metering infrastructure;

   Inserted: "(B) energy efficient data center strategies and methods of increasing asset and infrastructure utilization;

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   Inserted: "(C) advanced power management tools;

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

   Inserted: "(E) secure telework and travel substitution tools.

   Inserted: "(4) Performance goals.--

   Inserted: "(A) In general.--Not later than September 30, 2014, 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 technology systems.

   Inserted: "(B) Best practices.--The Chief Information Officers Council established under section 3603 of title 44, United States Code, 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 consider the use of--

   Inserted: "(i) energy savings performance contracting; and

   Inserted: "(ii) utility energy services contracting.

   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, 2014, 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

   On page 45, strike lines 3 through 24 and insert the following:

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   Change 2: Adds SEC. 304. ENERGY EFFICIENT DATA CENTERS on page 47, between lines 15 and 16

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   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, 2014, 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 2013;

   Inserted: "(B) an analysis considering the impact of information technologies, to include virtualization and cloud computing, in the public and private sectors; and

   Inserted: "(C) updated projections and recommendations for best practices through fiscal year 2020; 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 consider having 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 optimization and consolidation.

   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) Data Center 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.".

   Original wording

   On page 47, between lines 15 and 16, insert the following:

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