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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 27 — Geothermal Energy

§ 1512. Loan size limitation

Statutory text

The amount of any loan made under section 1511(a) of this title with respect to a project described in that section shall not exceed 50 percent of the cost of such project; except that if the loan is made to a person proposing to make application of the resources of the reservoir involved primarily for space heating or cooling or process heat for one or more structures or facilities then existing or under construction, the loan may be in any amount up to 90 per centum of such cost. In any event no loan shall be made in an amount in excess of $3,000,000.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Energy Security Act

    Pub. L. 96–294 title VI § 612 · 94 Stat. 611

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 1512

    (Pub. L. 96–294, title VI, § 612, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 764.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 96–294, title VI, § 612, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 764.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 612. loan size limitation The amount of any loan made under section 611(a) with respect to a project described in that section shall not exceed 50 percent of the cost of such project; except that if the loan is made to a person proposing to make application of the resources of the reservoir involved primarily for space heating or cooling or process heat for one or more structures or facilities then existing or under construction, the loan may be in any amount up to 90 per centum of such cost. In any event no loan shall be made in an amount in excess of $3,000,000.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 96–294, title VI, § 612, , 94 Stat. 764.)

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