Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 134 — Energy Policy
§ 13384. Assessment of alternative policy mechanisms for addressing greenhouse gas emissions
Statutory text
Not later than 18 months after , the Secretary shall transmit a report to Congress containing a comparative assessment of alternative policy mechanisms for reducing the generation of greenhouse gases. Such assessment shall include a short-run and long-run analysis of the social, economic, energy, environmental, competitive, and agricultural costs and benefits, including costs and benefits for jobs and competition, and the practicality of each of the following policy mechanisms:
Various systems for controlling the generation of greenhouse gases, including caps for the generation of greenhouse gases from major sources and emissions trading programs.
Federal standards for energy efficiency for major sources of greenhouse gases, including efficiency standards for power plants, industrial processes, automobile fuel economy, appliances, and buildings, and for emissions of methane.
Various Federal and voluntary incentives programs.
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.
Energy Policy Act of 1992
Pub. L. 102–486 title XVI § 1604 · 106 Stat. 2776
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 13384
(Pub. L. 102–486, title XVI, § 1604, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3002.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 102–486, title XVI, § 1604, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3002.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 1604. ASSESSMENT OF ALTERNATIVE POLICY MECHANISMS FOR ADDRESSING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall transmit a report to Congress containing a comparative assessment of alternative policy mechanisms for reducing the generation of greenhouse gases. Such assessment shall include a snort-run and long-run analysis of the social, economic, energy, environmental, competitive, and agricultural costs and benefits, including costs and benefits for jobs and competition, and the practicality of each of the following policy mechanisms: (1) Various systems for controlling the generation of greenhouse gases, including caps for the generation of greenhouse gases from major sources and emissions trading programs. (2) Federal standards for energy efficiency for major sources of greenhouse gases, including efficiency standards for power plants, industrial processes, automobile fuel economy, appliances, and buildings, and for emissions of methane. (3) Various Federal and voluntary incentives programs.
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