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USC-42 / Energy, environment and communities

Retain and reinvest energy-cost savings in specified installation or operational purposes

Retain an amount of appropriated funds equal to realized energy savings for the fiscal year and succeeding fiscal year, use the prescribed installation or operational-energy allocations, and make expressly authorized account transfers.

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Authority / instrument · USC-42

Energy-savings retention

Energy, environment and communities

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Secretary of Defense

What this does not authorize / hard limit

This does not authorize general profit retention or use of hypothetical savings.

Recorded executor

Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

Continue to actor →

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedThe statute preserves qualifying appropriated amounts without an additional authorization or appropriation for the specified period; transferred amounts follow the receiving-account availability rule. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction.

At a glance

Possible toolUSC-42 · Other statutory tools
Legal basis10 U.S.C. §2912

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense

Other statutory tools

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Apply separate rules for installation savings and operational-energy savings.
  • Use installation savings in the statutory half-for-energy/half-for-local-housing-minor-construction-or-MWR allocation; credit utility incentives as directed.
  • Under FY2026 §313, the Secretary shall transfer notified qualifying amounts within 60 days; operational-energy initiatives must advance resilience and fuel efficiency and may support the listed mission, training, or savings-incentive uses.

Limits & exclusions

  • Savings-based availability is limited to the statutory period, purposes, and allocation rules.
  • This does not authorize general profit retention or use of hypothetical savings.

Funding conditions

  • The statute preserves qualifying appropriated amounts without an additional authorization or appropriation for the specified period; transferred amounts follow the receiving-account availability rule.

Read the funding and execution guide

Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed

Resources

  • Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified

Approval

Execution

  • Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

Partners & review

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.

Actor and execution-role sources

October 5 statutory review

Added in the October 5 statutory coverage review. The cited legal mechanism and its conditions were examined; a current implementing program, intake, funding balance and individual delegation were not verified.

Section coverage and review findings

Legal basis

  • 10 U.S.C. §2912Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits.
  • Pub. L. 119-60, §313Expands operational-energy initiatives, requires transfer within 60 days after notice of savings, and defines operational energy cost savings.

What this research establishes

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedThe statute preserves qualifying appropriated amounts without an additional authorization or appropriation for the specified period; transferred amounts follow the receiving-account availability rule. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Confidence: High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.

Currentness: FY2026 §313 amends §2912(c), (e), and (f): expanded operational-energy initiative uses and a mandatory 60-day transfer deadline after notice, not a discretionary transfer alone. Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.

Review scope: Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Publication is not legal-currentness certification.

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