---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 436.13"
title: "10"
number: "436.13"
heading: "Presuming cost-effectiveness results."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/436.13"
---

# §436.13. Presuming cost-effectiveness results.

- (a) If the investment and other costs for an energy or water conservation measure considered for retrofit to an existing Federal building or a building energy system or building water system considered for incorporation into a new building design are insignificant, a Federal agency may presume that such a system is life cycle cost-effective without further analysis.
- (b) A Federal agency may presume that an investment in an energy or water conservation measure retrofit to an existing Federal building is not life cycle cost-effective for Federal investment if the Federal building is—
  - (1) Occupied under a short-term lease with a remaining term of one year or less, and without a renewal option or with a renewal option which is not likely to be exercised;
  - (2) Occupied under a lease which includes the cost of utilities in the rent and does not provide a pass-through of energy or water savings to the government; or
  - (3) **Scheduled to be demolished or retired from service within one year or less.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[55 FR 48220, Nov. 20, 1990, as amended at 61 FR 32650, June 25, 1996]

### Source

Source: 55 FR 48220, Nov. 20, 1990, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 8254; 42 U.S.C. 8258; 42 U.S.C. 8259b; 42 U.S.C. 8287, et seq.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 60669, Oct. 19, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[55 FR 48220, Nov. 20, 1990, as amended at 61 FR 32650, June 25, 1996]