Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 63A > Chapter 5b > Part 10 - Energy Conservation and Efficiency

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Division: means the Division of Facilities Construction and Management created in Section 63A-5b-301. See Utah Code 63A-5b-102
• Energy efficiency measure: means an action taken or initiated by an agency that:

  (a)	reduces the agency's energy or fuel use or resource energy consumption, water or other resource consumption, operation and maintenance costs, or cost of energy, fuel, water, or other resource; or

  (b)

  increases the agency's energy or fuel efficiency or resource consumption efficiency. See Utah Code 63A-5b-1001 Energy efficiency program: means a program established under Section 63A-5b-1002 for the purpose of improving energy efficiency measures and reducing the energy costs for state facilities. See Utah Code 63A-5b-1001 Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met. Fund: means the State Facility Energy Efficiency Fund created in Section 63A-5b-1003. See Utah Code 63A-5b-1001 Highway: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Institution of higher education: means an institution listed in Subsection 53B-2-101(1). See Utah Code 63A-5b-102 Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program. Performance efficiency agreement: means an agreement entered into by an agency whereby the agency implements one or more energy efficiency measures and finances the costs associated with implementation of performance efficiency measures using the stream of expected savings in costs resulting from implementation of the performance efficiency measures as a funding source for repayment. See Utah Code 63A-5b-1001 Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 State facility: means any building, structure, or other improvement that is constructed on property that the state, any of the state's departments, commissions, institutions, or agencies, or a state institution of higher education owns or leases as a tenant. See Utah Code 63A-5b-1001 Trust lands administration: means the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration established in Section 53C-1-201. See Utah Code 63A-5b-102