ENERGY CONSERVATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00988R000100100134-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2005
• Sequence Number: 134
• Content Type: REGULATION

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1. As the single largest energy user in the Nation,
the Federal Government bears the responsibility of leader-
ship in energy conservation. In sharing this responsi-
bility, the Agency has remained responsive to all
conservation measures established by the General Services
Administration (GSA) in compliance with Presidential
directives to conserve precious energy. Past Headquarters
Notices and Employee Bulletins have identified major areas
having energy savings potential and provided guidelines
to assist employees in achieving established energy goals.
Through past bulletins, employees have been encouraged
to cooperate in the following energy saving procedures:
a. Building temperatures of 78 degrees during
the summer and 65 degrees during the winter.
b. Turn off lights and equipment not in use.
c. Use carpools and vanpools to commute to
work, coordinate and consolidate trips to other
agencies, use conference calls in lieu of traveling
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to meetings, and use the Agency shuttle bus service.
d. Close curtains and blinds before leaving
at night.
e. Observe the ban on the use of supplemental
fans and heaters unless specifically approved.
Requests for use of fans and heaters in the Head-
quarters Building will be forwarded to the Chief,
Headquarters Engineering Branch, RECD/OL, Room 3E24
Headquarters Building, extension
use in other Agency buildings will be directed to
the Chief, Field Engineering Branch, RECD/OL,
2. In addition to the above energy savings measures,
GSA has announced a new energy conservation program to
begin 1 June 1980 that will require employee participation.
The goal of this program is to reduce overall energy
consumption by 5 percent based on consumption during
Fiscal Year 1979. The program is directed at significant
reduction in GSA-owned and operated buildings in the
National Capital Region and features the following
conservation measures:
o Setting of building temperatures at 80 degrees
Fahrenheit.
o Turning off air-conditioning equipment prior to
the end of the normal workday. (Early equipment
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shutdown usually will not adversely affect
personal comfort.)
o Reducing of interior and exterior lighting levels.
o Reducing overtime (after hours and weekends)
air-conditioning operations.
3. The construction of the heating, ventilating;
and air-conditioning systems inherently impose limits
and inflexibilities on the control and operation of the
systems. Extensive room partition reconfigurations,
variable sun loads, along with aging and hard-to-maintain
equipment, combine with the physical limitations of the
system such that it is impossible to maintain a uniform
building temperature of 80 degrees. Temperature
and humidity levels will differ from one area to another.
In areas considered unproductively warm, employees
should use discretion and may wear clothing more comfort-
ably suited to particular office conditions (i.e., no
coats or ties for men).
4. All employees are encouraged to support these
energy conservation measures and continue to seek new
and innovative approaches to improve energy efficiency in
keeping with the spirit and intent of the Federal energy
program and Presidential directives.
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