Enabling Compliance with the Clean Buildings Performance Standard
Agency
Commerce, Department of
Title of action
Enabling Compliance with the Clean Buildings Performance Standard
Date significant agency action was initiated
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Category
Agency-request legislation
Brief description of significant agency actions for which the agency is initiating an environmental justice assessment.
The Clean Buildings Performance standard, passed in 2019 (HB 1257) and expanded in 2022 (SB 5722), sets first-in-nation energy efficiency standards for large buildings in the state. In the 2023 capital budget, the legislature directed Commerce to convene a workgroup to study the financial impacts for the standard’s largest buildings (also called Tier 1 buildings) to comply with the law. The workgroup, composed of representatives from across the Washington buildings sector, has convened for more than a year to identify barriers and opportunities for the Clean Buildings performance standard. The workgroup is developing a list of recommendations to help building owners be able to comply more easily with the statewide standard. This ARL will bring forward several of those legislatively-focused recommendations on increasing the options buildings can use to comply with the standard.
Methods for providing public comment for agency consideration as part of the environmental justice assessment.
Public comments for this EJA can be submitted to buildings@commerce.wa.gov.
Link to agency webpage where the action is posted.
Status
Date EJ Assessment was completed
Friday, September 6, 2024
Published EJA (If completed, you must include a link to the assessment published on your website)
