MODIFICATION OF AVAILABILITY AND USE OF ENERGY COST SAVINGS.

SEC. 313. MODIFICATION OF AVAILABILITY AND USE OF ENERGY COST SAVINGS. Section 2912 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (c)— (A) by striking “The amount” and inserting “(1) The amount”; (B) by striking “additional operational energy” and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting “operational energy initiatives.”; and (C) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(2) The Secretary of Defense shall design operational energy initiatives under paragraph (1) to advance the objectives of the Department in the areas of energy resilience and fuel efficiency. “(3) Operational energy initiatives carried out under paragraph (1) may directly contribute to enhanced mission and combat capabilities, fund operational environment training activities, or establish programs to incentivize demonstrable reductions in energy expenditures within the department, agency, or instrumentality credited with achieving the energy cost savings under subsection (a).” ; (2) in subsection (e)(1), by striking “The Secretary of Defense may transfer amounts described in subsection (a) that remain available for obligation” and inserting “Not later than 60 days after being notified of amounts described in subsection (a) that remain available for obligation, the Secretary of Defense shall transfer such amounts”; and (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(f) Operational Energy Cost Savings Defined.—In this section, the term ‘operational energy cost savings’ means the monetary savings achieved through measures to reduce energy expenditures relative to the amount that would have been necessary to sustain an equivalent level of capability in the absence of such measures.” .