Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 84 — Department of Energy
§ 7371. Statement of purpose
Statutory text
The purpose of this subchapter is to establish incentives for the use of renewable energy resources, to improve and coordinate the dissemination of information to the public with respect to renewable energy resources, to encourage the use of certain cost effective solar energy systems and conservation measures by the Federal Government, to establish a program for the promotion of local energy self-sufficiency, to broaden the existing program for accelerating the procurement and use of photovoltaic systems, and to provide further encouragement for the development of small hydroelectric power projects.
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.
Energy Security Act
Pub. L. 96–294 title IV § 402 · 94 Stat. 611
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 7371
(Pub. L. 96–294, title IV, § 402, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 715.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–294, title IV, § 402, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 715.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 402. purpose The purpose of this title is to establish incentives for the use of renewable energy resources, to improve and coordinate the dissemination of information to the public with respect to renewable energy resources, to encourage the use of certain cost effective solar energy systems and conservation measures by the Federal Government, to establish a program for the promotion of local energy self-sufficiency, to broaden the existing program for accelerating the procurement and use of photovoltaic systems, and to provide further encouragement for the development of small hydroelectric power projects.
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title IV of Pub. L. 96–294, , 94 Stat. 715, known as the Renewable Energy Resources Act of 1980. For complete classification of title IV to the Code, see Short Title note set out below and Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
Section 401 of title IV Pub. L. 96–294 provided that: “This title [enacting this subchapter, amending sections 8255, 8271, and 8274 to 8276 of this title and sections 2705 and 2708 of Title 16, Conservation, and enacting a provision set out as a note under section 2701 of Title 16] may be cited as the ‘Renewable Energy Resources Act of 1980’.”