federal action Re: Big Green: EPACT 2005

[Healthyschools at aol.com]

and, per the HEALTHY AND HIGH PERFORMANCE SCHOOLS provisions of NO CHILD  
LEFT BEHIND (federal education law enacted in 2002), the education department,  
advised by EPA and Energy, is authorized to give grants to the states to  
encourage local HHPS designs that include saving 30% in energy. Congress  has 
provided line item funding for HHPS, not for the grant program and not  for the 
research provisions. No Child Left Behind is up for  re-authorization next year. 
 
Senator Jeffords's bipartisan S 3591, the High Performance Green  Buildings 
Act of 2006, was reported out of the Environment Committee in Sept.  but the 
Senate leaders have not brought to the Senate floor where it could  be voted on. 
Ask your US Senator to commit to fast-tracking track S  3591.  
 
See _http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s.03591_ 
(http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s.03591) :
 
 
In a message dated 10/13/2006 7:55:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  mrz
oeteman at FTCH.com writes:

In response to Annette Stumpf's recent  comment:  
Per the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT  2005) The federal government is 
supposed to be designing and building new buildings that use 30% less  energy 
than the base case of ASHRAE  90.1-2004 ... 
*************   
EPACT states energy efficiency upgrades are  compared to ASHRAE 90.1-2001 as 
in effect on April 2, 2003, which means  without Addendum g and not 2004 
version. 
Mark R. Zoeteman, PE, LEED® AP  
Senior Mechanical Engineer  
Fishbeck, Thompson, Carr & Huber,  Inc. 
1515 Arboretum Drive   SE 
Grand Rapids, MI   49546 
616-575-3824 office  
616-464-3739 direct 
616-464-3999 fax 
mrzoeteman at ftch.com 
_www.ftch.com_ (file://www.ftch.com/)  
Mark  

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