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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="4-218" title_number="4" title_name="Division of Development Finance" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Community Development Administration">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A project for a residential building qualifies as an energy conservation project if it consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the purchase or installation of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>caulking or weather stripping;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a clock thermostat;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>ceiling, attic, wall, floor, or duct insulation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>water heater insulation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>a storm window or door, multiglazed window or door, or heat–absorbing or heat–reflecting window or floor material;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>a device associated with load management techniques;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>an automatic energy control system;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>machinery, equipment, or a facility that uses groundwater as a heat source for a heating system or as a heat sink for an air conditioning system;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>a furnace efficiency modification, including:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>a replacement burner, furnace, or boiler or any combination of them that increases the energy efficiency of the heating system;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>a device for modifying a flue opening that increases the energy efficiency of the heating system; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>an electrical or mechanical furnace ignition system that replaces a standing gas pilot light; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>any other energy conservation improvement that the Administration determines by regulation to be appropriate and consistent with this subtitle; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a planning or technical service, a residential energy audit, or a conversion from a master utility meter to individual utility meters if the service, audit, or conversion is related to or undertaken with the installation of an item specified in item (1) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A project for a commercial building qualifies as an energy conservation project if it consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the purchase, installation, or modification of an installation that is designed primarily to reduce the consumption of energy, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>caulking or weather stripping;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>insulating the building structure or a system in the building;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a storm window or door, a multiglazed window or door, a heat–absorbing or heat–reflecting window or door system, glazing, a reduction in glass area, or another window or door system modification;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>an automatic energy control system;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>equipment that is associated with an automatic energy control system and that is required to operate a variable steam, hydraulic, or ventilation system;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>the replacement or modification of a lighting system to increase energy efficiency without increasing the overall illumination, unless the increase in illumination is necessary to conform to State or local law;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>an energy recovery system;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>a cogeneration system;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>machinery, equipment, or a facility that uses groundwater as a heat source for a heating system or as a heat sink for an air conditioning system;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>a modification of a furnace or utility plant and distribution system including:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>a replacement burner, furnace, or boiler or any combination of them that increases the energy efficiency of the heating system;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>a device for modifying a flue opening that increases the energy efficiency of the heating system; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>an electrical or mechanical furnace ignition system that replaces a standing gas pilot light; or</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="xi">
        <text>any other energy conservation improvement that the Administration determines by regulation to be appropriate and consistent with this subtitle; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a planning or technical service or a commercial energy audit, if the service or audit is related to or undertaken with the installation, or the modification of an installation, of an item specified in item (1) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
