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Resources, Science and Technology, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means. As the bill continues to move through the House. NLC will continue to advocate for funding for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant, local adaptation projects and energy efficient transportation solutions. The U.S. Senate has not yet drafted companion legislation. 8A Page 18 State Energy and Environmental Development Account The bill establishes a State Energy and Environmental Development (SEED) account, which would serve as the state repository for managing and accounting for emission allowances for renewable energy and energy efficiency'purposes. Not less than 12,5 percent shall be distributed to local governments for energy efficiency and renewable energy purposes. Buildings There are several sections of the bill pertaining to residential and commercial buildings, including establishing a building retrofit program and a building energy performance labeling program. While municipal buildings are not specifically mentioned in these programs, they are not specifically excluded either. The provision that would affect local governments most directly is the proposal for a National Building Code Energy Efficiency Target and a National Energy Efficiency Building Code for residential and commercial buildings. States and local governments with code authority would be required to adopt the national code or other code that meets or exceeds the target. From 2012 through 2050, states would receive emissions allowances for their SEED account for building code compliance. In any state that is out of compliance and a local government is in compliance, emission allowances would be provided to the local government. Local governments would be able to use their SEED allocations for this purpose as well. Adaptation The bill would establish a National Climate Service within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develOp climate information. data, forecasts, and warnings at the national and regional scales, and to distribute information related to climate impacts to state, local, and tribal governments and the public to facilitate the development and implementation of strategies to reduce society's vulnerability to climate variability and change. States will be required to develop a climate change adaptation plan. Renewable Electricity Standard The bill would establish a renewable portfolio standard, which would apply to utilities that sell more than 4 million megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity to consumers, requiring 20 percent of electricity to come from renewable resources by 2020, and allowing up to one quarter of the requirement to come from energy efficiency measures. States could petition to reduce their renewable requirement to 12 percent and 8 percent efficiency. Based on 2007 data from the Energy Information Administration, 21 public utilities produced more than 4 million MWh. It is important to note that in California, investor owned utilities are already required to comply with a 20 percent RPS by 2010. The California legislature and state agencies are additionally contemplating a 33 percent renewable portfolio standard for investor owned and publicly owned utilities by 2020. Transportation Under this provision, each state would be required to submit to EPA goals for transportation- related greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions. Each MPO with a population greater than 200,000 must submit a transportation plan to EPA/DOT outlining the strategies to be used to achieve the goals. EPAlDOT may award grants to states or MPOs to support related activities. For California regions, the likely result of this provision would require the regional MPOs to submit their plan to achieve a regional transportation related target as required by S8 375 to the federal government 10