225 C.M.R. 27.03 – Covered Buildings List

(1) Covered Buildings List. Annually by March 30th , the Department shall publish a Covered Buildings List on the Department's website that includes all Large Buildings in the Commonwealth subject to the provisions of 225 CMR 27.00. The Covered Buildings List shall include the building address, Gross Floor Area, Building Owner, Building Owner's business address, Building Use, and any additional information deemed relevant by the Department to effectuate the goals of 225 CMR 27.00.
(2) Newly Constructed Buildings. A newly constructed building shall be included on the Covered Buildings List in a Compliance Year if the Temporary Certificate of Occupancy for the Building or Certificate of Occupancy for the Building was issued at any point prior to that Compliance Year's Reported Year.
(3) Creation of Covered Buildings List. The Department will determine a process for identifying Large Buildings and generate the Covered Buildings List using that process. The Department will utilize information sources that may include, but are not limited to, municipal assessor databases, MassGIS assessor data, and other state or municipal sources of property data.
(4) Building Owner Notice of Inclusion on the Covered Buildings List. In addition to the publication of the Covered Building List pursuant to 225 CMR 27.03(1), the Department shall send notice to Building Owners of their reporting obligations under 225 CMR 27.00. Such notice shall include the Covered Building(s) subject to reporting requirements, reporting deadlines, instructions for reporting, and other relevant information regarding a Building Owner's obligations under 225 CMR 27.00. Failure of a Building Owner to receive such notice shall not relieve the Building Owner of any reporting obligations under 225 CMR 27.04(3).
(5) Designating Buildings as a Campus. A Building Owner may submit a request to have a group of Buildings designated as a Campus and report its Energy Usage pursuant to 225 CMR 27.04(5). Such request must detail how the group of Buildings meet the definition of a Campus, the extent to which reporting can be done at the Building level, and include a proposal for how the Campus will report Energy Usage pursuant to 225 CMR 27.04(5). The Department shall evaluate such requests and associated Campus reporting plans on a case-by-case basis.