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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 71 — Solar Energy

§ 5507. Arrangements with Federal agencies for development and demonstration of solar heating and combined heating and cooling systems for commercial buildings

Statutory text

The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary, the Secretary of Energy, the Administrator of General Services, and the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and concurrently with the conduct of the programs under sections 5503 and 5504 of this title, shall enter into arrangements with appropriate Federal agencies to carry out such projects and activities (including demonstration projects) with respect to apartment buildings, office buildings, factories, crop-drying facilities and other agricultural structures, public buildings (including schools and colleges), and other non-residential, commercial, or industrial buildings, taking into account the special needs of and individual differences in such buildings based upon size, function, and other relevant factors, as may be appropriate for the early development and demonstration of solar heating and combined solar heating and cooling systems suitable and effective for use in such buildings.

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. Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Act of 1974

    Pub. L. 93–409 § 9 · [88 Stat. 1069]

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 5507

    Pub. L. 93–409, § 9, Sept. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1074

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 93–409, § 9, Sept. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1074

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 9. development and demonstration of solar heating and combined solar heating and cooling systems for commercial buildings The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary, the Director, the Administrator of General Services, and the Director of the National Bureau of Standards and concurrently with the conduct of the programs under sections 5 and 6, shall enter into arrangements with appropriate Federal agencies to carry out such projects and activities (including demonstration projects) with respect to apartment buildings, office buildings, factories, crop-drying facilities and other agricultural structures, public buildings (including schools and colleges), and other non-residential, commercial, or industrial buildings, taking into account the special needs of and individual differences in such buildings based upon size, function, and other relevant factors, as may be appropriate, for the early development and demonstration of solar heating and combined solar heating and cooling systems suitable and effective for use in such buildings.

  2. Technology Competitiveness Act

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

    Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 5507

    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.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1988—Pub. L. 100–418 substituted “National Institute of Standards and Technology” for “National Bureau of Standards”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

“Secretary of Energy” substituted in text for “Director”, meaning Director of National Science Foundation, pursuant to sections 104(f) and 301(h) of Pub. L. 93–438, which are classified to sections 5814(f) and 5871(h) of this title and which transferred functions of National Science Foundation relating to or utilized in connection with solar heating and cooling development to Administrator of Energy Research and Development Administration, and pursuant to sections 301(a), 703, and 707 of Pub. L. 95–91, which are classified to sections 7151(a), 7293, and 7297 of this title and which terminated Energy Research and Development Administration and transferred its functions and functions of Administrator thereof (with certain exceptions) to Secretary of Energy.

Credits

1974–1988 · 4 acts
  1. 1974Pub. L. 93–409, § 9, , 88 Stat. 1074
  2. 1974Pub. L. 93–438, title I, § 104(f), title III, § 301(h), , 88 Stat. 1238, 1250
  3. 1977Pub. L. 95–91, title III, § 301(a), title VII, §§ 703, 707, , 91 Stat. 577, 606, 607
  4. 1988Pub. L. 100–418, title V, § 5115(c), , 102 Stat. 1433.
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(Pub. L. 93–409, § 9, , 88 Stat. 1074; Pub. L. 93–438, title I, § 104(f), title III, § 301(h), , 88 Stat. 1238, 1250; Pub. L. 95–91, title III, § 301(a), title VII, §§ 703, 707, , 91 Stat. 577, 606, 607; Pub. L. 100–418, title V, § 5115(c), , 102 Stat. 1433.)

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