NAC341.346. Review by Administrator of preliminary plans, designs and detailed plans and specifications of project to ensure achievement of certain efficiencies in use of energy and water.

     1. The Administrator shall review the preliminary plans, designs and detailed plans and specifications of a project to ensure that the project will achieve:

     (a) Efficiency in the use of energy that meets or exceeds the standards for the efficient use of energy established by:

          (1) ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, as adopted by reference pursuant to NAC 341.045; and

          (2) The United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Energy Star Program; and

     (b) Efficiency in the use of water for plumbing fixtures and landscape irrigation that is at least 10 percent more efficient than the standards for the efficient use of water established by the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Energy Policy Act of 1992, Public Law 102-486.

     2. If the project is the remodeling of a building, the requirements of subsection 1 apply only to the use of energy or water in the remodeled portion of the building.

     (Added to NAC by Pub. Works Bd. by R207-09, eff. 10-15-2010; A by R105-11 & R106-11, 5-30-2012; R102-11, 6-29-2012)