Water Management

Agencies are required to install metering and advanced metering devices for energy and water in Federal buildings in accordance with U.S. Department of Energy metering guidelines.

Agency energy managers are required to complete an annual comprehensive energy and water evaluation for approximately 25% of agency covered facilities in a manner that ensures that an evaluation of such facility is completed at least once every four years. Exceptions for evaluations if complicated criteria are met.

For each measure implemented under 42 U.S.C. § 8253(f)(4), agencies are required to ensure that equipment is fully commissioned at acceptance to be operating at design specifications; a plan for appropriate operations, maintenance, and repair of the equipment is in place at acceptance and is followed; equipment and system performance is measured during its entire life to ensure proper operations, maintenance, and repair; and energy and water savings are measured and verified.

Two years after the date of completion of each evaluation, each energy manager shall implement all life-cycle cost effective ECMs (individually or bundled)

AND

Each Federal agency shall use performance contracting to address at least 50 percent of the measures identified (Guidance to determine criteria: 50% of implementation cost, counting of measures problematic).

Agencies are required to install all life cycle cost-effective energy and water conservation measures in owned buildings to the maximum extent practicable, as soon as practicable after October 1, 2022.

Agencies are then required to report non-compliance to Congress every two years, beginning January 1, 2022.

Under the President's Federal Sustainability Plan, Federal agencies will set ambitious, data-driven 2030 goals and annual targets for energy and water reductions based on leading performance benchmarks for building type categories and the composition of the agency's building portfolio.

If water is used to achieve energy efficiency in new Federal buildings in accordance with 42 U.S.C. § 6834(a)(3), then water conservation measures shall be applied to the extent that they are life cycle cost-effective.

In addition to the use of water conservation technologies otherwise required by 42 U.S.C. 6834, water conservation technologies are to be applied to the extent that the technologies are life cycle cost-effective.