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106 STAT. 2848 PUBLIC LAW 102-486—OCT. 24, 1992 (E) succeeded in generating utility incentives, shared energy savings contracts, and other federally approved performance oased energy savings contracts; (F) made successful efforts to fulfill compliance with energy reduction mandates, including the provisions of section 543; and "(G) succeeded in the implementation of the guidelines established under section 159. "(3) There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subsection not more than $250,000 for each of the fiscal years 1993 1994 and 1995. (g) REPORTS. —Section 548 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 8258) is amended— (1) in subsection (b)(D, by striking "including" and all that follows through the semicolon and inserting the following: "including— 'XA) a copy of the list of the exclusions made under sections 543(a)(2) and 543(c)(3); and "(B) a statement detailing the amount of funds awarded to each agency under section 546(b), the energy and water conservation measures installed with such funds, the projected energy and water savings to be realized from installed measures, and, for each installed measure for which the projected energy and water savings reported in the previous year were not realized, the percentage of such projected savings that was not realized, the reasons such savings were not realized, and proposals for, and Projected costs of, achieving such projected savings in the iture;"; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: "(c) OTHER REPORT.— The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of General Services, shall— "(1) conduct a study and evaluate legal, institutional, and other constraints to connecting buildings owned or leased by the Federal Government to district heating and district cooling systems; and "(2) not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this subsection, transmit to the Congress a report containing the findings and conclusions of such study, incluoing recommendations for the development of streamlined processes for the consideration of connecting buildings owned or leased by the Federal Government to mstrict heating and cooling systems.**. (h) DEMONSTRATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGY; SURVEY OF ENERGY SAVING POTENTIAL. —Such Act is amended— 42 USC 8259. (1) by redesignating section 549 as section 551; and (2) by inserting the following new sections after section 548: 42 USC 8258a. "SEC. 649. DEMONSTRATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGY. "(a) DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. —Not later than January 1, 1994, the Secretary, in cooperation with the Administrator of General Services, shall establish a demonstration program to install, in federally owned facilities or federally assisted housing, energy conservation measures for which the Secretary has determined that such installation would accelerate commercial viability. In those cases where technologies are determined to be equivalent.