§ 5502. Definitions

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. 1974

   Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Act of 1974

   Pub. L. 93–409 § 3 · [88 Stat. 1069]

   Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 5502

   Pub. L. 93–409, § 3, Sept. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1070

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 93–409, § 3, Sept. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1070

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 3. definitions For purposes of this Act— (1) the term “solar heating”, with respect to any building, means the use of solar energy to meet such portion of the total heating needs of such building (including hot water), or such portion of the needs of such building for hot water (where its remaining heating needs are met by other methods), as may be required under performance criteria prescribed by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development utilizing the services of the Director of the National Bureau of Standards, and in consultation with the Director of the National Science Foundation, and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; (2) the terms “solar heating and cooling” and “combined solar heating and cooling”, with respect to any building, mean the use of solar energy to provide both such portion of the total heating needs of such building (including hot water) and such portion or the total cooling needs of such building, or such portion of the needs of such building for hot water (where its remaining heating needs are met by other methods) and such portion of the total cooling needs of a building, as may be required under performance criteria prescribed by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development utilizing the services of the Director of the National Bureau of Standards, and in consultation with the Director of the National Science Foundation, and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and such term includes cooling by means of nocturnal heat radiation, by evaporation, or by other methods of meeting peakload energy requirements at nonpeakload times; (3) the term “residential dwellings” includes previously occupied and new single family and multifamily dwellings, mobile homes, and publicly assisted housing owned by a private sponsor or a State or local housing authority not covered by section 17; (4) the term “Administrator” means the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; (5) the term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and (6) the term “Director” means the Director of the National Science Foundation.

2. 1988

   Technology Competitiveness Act

   Pub. L. 100–418 title V § 5115(c) · 102 Stat. 1107

   Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 5502(1); 42 U.S.C. § 5502(2)

   Pub. L. 100–418 substituted “National Institute of Standards and Technology” for “National Bureau of Standards”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pars. (1), (2). Pub. L. 100–418 substituted “National Institute of Standards and Technology” for “National Bureau of Standards”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (c) Amendments to Other Laws.— References in any other Federal 15 USC 271 note. law to the National Bureau of Standards shall be deemed to refer to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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