Report to the Coeur D'Alene Kootenai Nez Perce Shoshone-Bannock and Shoshone-Paiute Tribes on the Adoption and Enforcement of the Model Standard for Energy Conservation in New Buildings: Final Narrative Report, 9/30/83-9/30/84

摘要

This report is the result of one year of work directed at developing a program for application and enforcement of the Model Standard for Energy conservation in New Buildings proposed by the Northwest Power Planning Council. The work has consisted of analyzing and correcting the published version of the Standard, revising the Washington State Energy Code Training Manual 1983 Edition to make it usable as a training manual for the Model Conservation Standard (MCS), attending many meetings involving analysis and interpretation of the MCS and its implications, and collecting some materials for use by tribal staff members when adoption and application of the MCS is achieved. Unfortunately, not a great deal has come of this effort. The MCS is still under challenge and criticism as to its suitability and applicability, so that a final, legally substantiated version is not yet available, so that the training manual prepared will need another revision when the revised version of the MCS becomes available. Participants at all the attended meetings were as uncertain of the implications and liabilities associated with adoption of the MCS at the end of the year as at the beginning. In consequence of this, really useful materials relating to adoption and enforcement of the MCS are not available. An exercise to introduce heat movement and conservation to the lay public has been developed and may be useful. It has been tested on several people and found successful. (ERA citation 12:033061)