---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 8262k"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "8262k"
heading: "Government contract incentives"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/8262k"
units:
  - "Chapter 91 — National Energy Conservation Policy"
  - "Subchapter III — Federal Energy Initiative"
  - "Part B — Federal Energy Management"
---

# §8262k. Government contract incentives

- (a) **Establishment of criteria—** Each [agency](/usc/42/8259.md?p=1), in consultation with the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council, shall establish criteria for the improvement of energy efficiency in [Federal facilities](/usc/42/8271.md?p=1) operated by Federal Government contractors or subcontractors.
- (b) **Purpose of criteria—** The criteria established under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be used to encourage Federal contractors, and their subcontractors, which manage and operate federally-owned facilities, to adopt and utilize [energy conservation measures](/usc/42/8259.md?p=4) designed to reduce energy costs in Government-owned and contractor-operated facilities and which are ultimately borne by the Federal Government.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–486, title I, § 167, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2862.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, and not as part of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act which comprises this chapter.