§ 5506. Test procedures and definitive performance criteria for solar heating and combined solar heating and cooling components and systems and suitable dwellings; determination, consultation and publication in Federal Register

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 § 8 · [88 Stat. 1069]

   Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 5506

   Pub. L. 93–409, § 8, Sept. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1073

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 93–409, § 8, Sept. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1073

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 8. test procedures and definitive performance criteria As soon as feasible, and utilizing data available from the 42 USC 5506. demonstration programs under sections 5 and 6, the Secretary, utilizing the services of the Director of the National Bureau of Standards and in consultation with the Administrator and the Director shall Publication in Federal Register. determine, prescribe, and publish in the Federal Register in accordance with the applicable provisions regarding rulemaking prescribed by section 553 of title 5, United States Code— (1) definitive performance criteria for solar heating and combined solar heating and cooling components and systems to be used in residential dwellings, taking into account climatic variations existing between different geographic areas; (2) definitive performance criteria (relating to suitability for solar heating and for combined solar heating and cooling) for such dwellings, taking into account climatic variations existing between different geographic areas; and (3) procedures whereby manufacturers of solar heating and combined solar heating and cooling components and systems shall have their products tested in order to provide certification that such products conform to the performance criteria established under paragraph (1).

2. 1988

   Technology Competitiveness Act

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

   Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 5506

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

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   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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