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Action brief · USC-42

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

Objective
Improve facilities and energy
Family / instrument
Energy, environment and communities · Energy-savings retention
Statute
Authority holder
Secretary of Defense
Executor · routing lead
Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)

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.
All requirements & limits

Recorded funding condition (excerpt)

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

What this does not authorize / limits

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

Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded

Implementation caution: Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.

Actor sources

Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.