§ 6831. Congressional findings and purpose

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. 1976

   Energy Conservation Standards for New Buildings Act of 1976

   Pub. L. 94–385 title III § 302 · 90 Stat. 1125

   Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 6831

   Pub. L. 94–385, title III, § 302, Aug. 14, 1976, 90 Stat. 1144

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 94–385, title III, § 302, Aug. 14, 1976, 90 Stat. 1144

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 302. findings and purposes (a) The Congress finds that— (1) large amounts of fuel and energy are consumed unnecessarily each year in heating, cooling, ventilating, and providing domestic hot water for newly constructed residential and com-mercial buildings because such buildings lack adequate energy conservation features; (2) Federal performance standards for newly constructed buildings can prevent such waste of energy, which the Nation can no longer afford in view of its current and anticipated energy shortage; (3) the failure to provide adequate energy conservation measures in newly constructed buildings increases long-term operating costs that may affect adversely the repayment of, and security for, loans made, insured, or guaranteed by Federal agencies or made by federally insured or regulated instrumentalities; and (4) State and local building codes or similar controls can provide an existing means by which to assure, in coordination with other building requirements and with a minimum of Federal interference in State and local transactions, that newly constructed buildings contain adequate energy conservation features. (b) The purposes of this title, therefore, are to— (1) redirect Federal policies and practices to assure that reasonable energy conservation features will be incorporated into new commercial and residential buildings receiving Federal financial assistance; (2) provide for the development and implementation, as soon as practicable, of performance standards for new residential and commercial buildings which are designed to achieve the maximum practicable improvements in energy efficiency and increases in the use of nondepletable sources of energy; and (3) encourage States and local governments to adopt and enforce such standards through their existing building codes and other construction control mechanisms, or to apply them through a special approval process.

2. 1981

   Pub. L. 97–35 title X § 1041(a) · 95 Stat. 357

   Inserted · 42 U.S.C. § 6831(a)(2); 42 U.S.C. § 6831(b)(2)

   Pub. L. 97–35 inserted “voluntary” before “performance standards”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsecs. (a)(2), (b)(2). Pub. L. 97–35 inserted “voluntary” before “performance standards”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (a) The Energy Conservation Standards for New Buildings Act of 1976 is amended by striking out “performance standards” 42 USC 6801 note. 42 USC 6835. each place it appears, except in section 306, and inserting in lieu thereof “voluntary performance standards”.

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 97–35 effective Aug. 13, 1981, see section 1038 of Pub. L. 97–35, set out as a note under section 6240 of this title.

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