10 CFR § 436.12 - Life cycle cost methodology.

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title: "10 CFR § 436.12 - Life cycle cost methodology."
title_number: 10
title_name: "Energy"
section_number: "436.12"
section_name: "Life cycle cost methodology."
chapter_name: "DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY"
subchapter_number: "D"
subchapter_name: "ENERGY CONSERVATION"
part_number: "436"
part_name: "FEDERAL ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING PROGRAMS"
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# 436.12 Life cycle cost methodology.

The life cycle cost methodology for this part is a systematic analysis of relevant costs, excluding sunk costs, over a study period, relating initial costs to future costs by the technique of discounting future costs to present values.