Posted by
Ed Bradford on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:58:00 PM
From HR 2998
[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.2998:]
comes:
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(f) FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT AND TRAINING.ÎíÎñ
13 Where a State fails and local governments in that State
14 also fail to enforce the applicable State or national energy
15 efficiency building codes, the Secretary shall enforce such
16 codes, as follows:
17 Î÷ÎõÎ÷Îõ(1) The Secretary shall establish, by rule,
18 within 2 years after the date of enactment of the
19 American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009,
20 an energy efficiency building code enforcement capability.
22 (2) Such enforcement capability shall be de-
23 signed to achieve 90 percent compliance with such
24 code in any State within 1 year after the date of the
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1 Secretary's determination that such State is out of
2 compliance with this section.
3 (3) The Secretary may set and collect reason
4 able inspection fees to cover the costs of inspections
5 required for such enforcement. Revenue from fees
6 collected shall be available to the Secretary to carry
7 out the requirements of this section upon appropria-
8 tion.
9 (4) In any jurisdiction to which this subsection
10 applies, the Secretary shall coordinate enforcement
11 of the national energy efficiency building code with
12 State and local code enforcement of other building
13 codes.
14 (5) In any jurisdiction to which this subsection
15 applies, the Secretary shall enhance compliance by
16 conducting training and education of builders and
17 other professionals in the jurisdiction concerning the
18 national energy efficiency building code.
19 (6) The Secretary shall coordinate with profes-
20 sional organizations representing code officials, ar-
21 chitects, engineers, builders, and other experts to de-
22 velop training curricula concerning the national en-
23 ergy efficiency building code.
1 (7) If the Secretary enforces such codes under
2 this subsection, the Secretary may, as appropriate,
3 redefine violations of such codes.
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If this doesn't scare a lot of people then those calm "intellectuals"
must want a federal government in exclusion to any other, local,
city or state. The concept of the "Administrator" taking over
building codes for an entire state and inspecing a house at the
point of a gun [here's the fee; pay it or go to jail] is so beyond
the pale that I don't belive I am reading this in a bill that passed
in the House of Representatives.
Please, Americans, all of you write to your Senators and and tell them
forcfully to veto this bill. There are more morsels in this bill that
are almost as unpalatable.