Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 34-451, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE34-451. Energy conservation standards for
public buildings
A. The department of commerce in consultation with
persons responsible for building systems shall adopt and publish energy
conservation standards for construction of all new capital projects as defined
in section 41‑790, including buildings designed and constructed by school
districts, community college districts and universities. These standards shall
be consistent with the recommended energy conservation standards of the
American society of heating, refrigerating and air conditioning engineers and
the international energy conservation code.
B. The standards shall be adopted to achieve energy
conservation and shall allow for design flexibility.
C. The following state agencies shall reduce energy
use in public buildings that they administer by ten per cent per square foot of
floor area on or before July 1, 2008,
and by fifteen per cent per
square foot of floor area on or before July 1, 2011 and by twenty per cent per square foot of floor area on or
before july 1, 2015, using July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2002 as
the baseline year:
1. The department of administration for its building
systems.
2. The Arizona board of regents for its building
systems.
3. The department of transportation for its building
systems.
D. All
community college districts shall reduce energy use in public buildings that
they administer by fifteen per cent per square feet of floor area on or before
July 1, 2011 and by twenty per cent per square foot of floor area on or before
July 1, 2015, using July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2002 as the baseline year.
D. E. The state department of commerce energy office shall
provide technical assistance to the state agencies prescribed in subsection C
of this section and to community
college districts. On or before July October
1 of each year, the state
department of commerce
energy office shall measure compliance with subsection C subsections C and D of this section, compile
the results of that monitoring and report to the speaker of the house of
representatives and the president of the senate as to the progress of attaining
the goals prescribed in subsection C
subsections C and D of
this section. The state department of commerce energy
office shall include in its report an explanation of the reasons for any
failure to achieve energy reductions in specific building systems as prescribed
in subsection C subsections C and D of this
section.
E. f. All state
agencies, school districts, community
college districts and universities shall procure energy efficient
products that are certified by the United States department of energy or the
United States environmental protection agency as energy star or that are
certified under the federal energy management program in all categories that
are available unless the products are shown not to be cost‑effective on a
life cycle cost basis. END_STATUTE
