1. (a) Plan requirement. The head of a state agency or an institution of higher education as outlined in §19.12 of this title (relating to Application) shall ensure preparation of a Resource Efficiency Plan and submit to the State Energy Conservation Office a certification document that the plan has been completed.
2. (b) Submission date. The Resource Efficiency Plan completion certification document shall be submitted by October 31 of each even numbered year beginning October 31, 2002.

3. (c) Contents of plan. The Resource Efficiency Plan shall include, at a minimum, the following:

   1. (1) a summary of the overall strategy and goals for addressing utility use at state-owned buildings or facilities;
   2. (2) a Utility Assessment Report (UAR) or a Preliminary Energy Audit (PEA) for a representative number of the state-owned buildings or facilities that the state agency or institution of higher education occupies, and a projected schedule that outlines the plans for completion of a UAR or PEA for all the remaining state-owned buildings or facilities that the agency or institution occupies. The UAR or PEA should detail recommendations for cost effective resource efficiency measures that could be implemented to reduce utility consumption and/or utility costs;
   3. (3) an Implementation Schedule that describes how the agency or institution plans to achieve the agency established goals and implement the recommended cost effective resource efficiency measures that are identified in the UAR or PEA, and a strategy for monitoring the status of implementation of the Resource Efficiency Plan;
   4. (4) a Finance Strategy that describes how the agency or institution plans to obtain funding for the recommended cost effective efficiency measures;
   5. (5) a Utility Awareness Plan through which the agency or institution will educate its personnel on utility conservation methods and practices;
   6. (6) an Asset Management Inventory that describes the agency's or institution's buildings or facilities, in a format that SECO prescribes;
   7. (7) a two-year history of utility use and expenditures for the buildings and facilities that are identified in the Asset Management Inventory, in a format that SECO prescribes, including, without limitation, the rates for utilities that are charged to, and the amount of utilities that are used by, the agency or institution.
   8. (8) a Savings Monitoring and Evaluation Plan that describes the plans for monitoring and evaluating utility efficiency savings as a result of implementation of the recommendations in the UAR;
   9. (9) a Project Implementation Update that outlines the progress over the previous two years in implementation of the recommendations that are contained in the previous Resource Efficiency Plan, including a summary of the results of the projects in terms of utility efficiency and cost savings;
   10. (10) the name and address of the designated official at the agency or institution who is responsible for implementation of the recommendations in the Resource Efficiency Plan, and the name and address of an agency or institution contact person for the Resource Efficiency Plan;
   11. (11) any Resource Efficiency Plans that using agencies have prepared.
4. (d) The plan for a using agency or for an agency that leases space shall include only those provisions of subsection (c) of this section that apply to the occupying agency's situation.
5. (e) After the deadline for completing or updating a Resource Efficiency Plan has passed, SECO may require a state agency or institution of higher education to submit its Resource Efficiency Plan to SECO for review. The Resource Efficiency Plan shall be submitted to SECO within 30 days of receiving a request from SECO to submit the plan.

Source Note:The provisions of this §19.14 adopted to be effective August 13, 2002, 27 TexReg 7168.