Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 121.djvu/1620

 PUBLIC LAW 110–140—DEC. 19, 2007

121 STAT. 1599

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(D) increases the use of environmentally preferable products, including biobased, recycled content, and nontoxic products with lower life-cycle impacts; (E) increases reuse and recycling opportunities; (F) integrates systems in the building; (G) reduces the environmental and energy impacts of transportation through building location and site design that support a full range of transportation choices for users of the building; and (H) considers indoor and outdoor effects of the building on human health and the environment, including— (i) improvements in worker productivity; (ii) the life-cycle impacts of building materials and operations; and (iii) other factors that the Federal Director or the Commercial Director consider to be appropriate. (14) LIFE-CYCLE.—The term ‘‘life-cycle’’, with respect to a high-performance green building, means all stages of the useful life of the building (including components, equipment, systems, and controls of the building) beginning at conception of a highperformance green building project and continuing through site selection, design, construction, landscaping, commissioning, operation, maintenance, renovation, deconstruction or demolition, removal, and recycling of the high-performance green building. (15) LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT.—The term ‘‘life-cycle assessment’’ means a comprehensive system approach for measuring the environmental performance of a product or service over the life of the product or service, beginning at raw materials acquisition and continuing through manufacturing, transportation, installation, use, reuse, and end-of-life waste management. (16) LIFE-CYCLE COSTING.—The term ‘‘life-cycle costing’’, with respect to a high-performance green building, means a technique of economic evaluation that— (A) sums, over a given study period, the costs of initial investment (less resale value), replacements, operations (including energy use), and maintenance and repair of an investment decision; and (B) is expressed— (i) in present value terms, in the case of a study period equivalent to the longest useful life of the building, determined by taking into consideration the typical life of such a building in the area in which the building is to be located; or (ii) in annual value terms, in the case of any other study period. (17) OFFICE OF COMMERCIAL HIGH-PERFORMANCE GREEN BUILDINGS.—The term ‘‘Office of Commercial High-Performance Green Buildings’’ means the Office of Commercial HighPerformance Green Buildings established under section 421(a). (18) OFFICE OF FEDERAL HIGH-PERFORMANCE GREEN BUILDINGS.—The term ‘‘Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings’’ means the Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings established under section 436(a). (19) PRACTICES.—The term ‘‘practices’’ means design, financing, permitting, construction, commissioning, operation

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