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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 71 — Solar Energy

§ 5513. Priorities and criteria of demonstration programs

Statutory text

The Secretary shall set priorities as far as possible consistent with the intent and operation of this subchapter in accordance with the following criteria:

(a)

The residential dwellings and other buildings which will be part of the demonstration programs referred to in sections 5503, 5504, and 5507 of this title shall be located in a sufficient number of different geographic areas in the United States to assure a realistic and effective demonstration of the solar heating systems and combined solar heating and cooling systems involved, and of the dwellings and other buildings themselves, in both rural and urban locations and under climatic conditions which vary as much as possible.

(b)

Consideration shall be given to projected costs of commercial production and maintenance of the solar heating systems and combined solar heating and cooling systems utilized in the demonstration programs.

(c)

Encouragement should be given in the conduct of programs under this subchapter to those projects in which funds, appropriated by any State or political subdivision thereof for the purpose of sharing costs with the Federal Government for the purchase and installation of solar heating or combined solar heating and cooling components and systems, are committed before or after .

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 § 15 · [88 Stat. 1069]

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 5513

    (Pub. L. 93–409, § 15, Sept. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1077.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 93–409, § 15, Sept. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1077.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 15. priorities The Secretary shall set priorities as far as possible consistent 42 USC 5513. with the intent and operation of this Act in accordance with the following criteria: (a) The residential dwellings and other buildings which will be part of the demonstration programs referred to in sections 5, 6, and 9 shall be located in a sufficient number of different geographic areas in the United States to assure a realistic and effective demonstration of the solar heating systems and combined solar heating and cooling systems involved, and of the dwellings and other buildings themselves, in both rural and urban locations and under climatic conditions which vary as much as possible. (b) Consideration shall be given to projected costs of commercial production and maintenance of the solar heating systems and combined solar heating and cooling systems utilized in the demonstration programs. Cost sharing.(c) Encouragement should be given in the conduct of programs under this Act to those projects in which funds, appropriated by any State or political subdivision thereof for the purpose of sharing costs with the Federal Government for the purchase and installation of solar heating or combined solar heating and cooling components and systems, are committed before or after the date of the enactment of this Act.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 93–409, § 15, , 88 Stat. 1077.)

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