Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 84 — Department of Energy
§ 7374. Energy self-sufficiency initiatives
Statutory text
Establishment of 3-year pilot program
There is hereby established under the direction of the Secretary a 3-year pilot energy self-sufficiency program to demonstrate energy self-sufficiency through the use of renewable energy resources in one or more States in the United States.
Establishment of subprograms to pilot programs; scope of subprograms
As a part of the pilot program, the Secretary shall establish such subprograms as the Secretary determines are necessary to achieve the purpose of this section, including subprograms—
to promote the development and utilization of synergistic combinations of different renewable energy resources in specific projects aimed at reducing fossil fuel importation;
to initiate and encourage energy self-sufficiency at appropriate levels of government;
to stimulate private industry participation in the realization of the objective stated in subsection (a); and
to stimulate the utilization of abandoned or underutilized industrial facilities for the generation of energy from any locally available renewable resource, such as municipal solid waste, agricultural waste, or forest products waste.
Implementation of subprograms; preparation of plan of program and additional Federal actions
In carrying out the provisions of this section, the Secretary is authorized to assign to an existing office in the Department of Energy the responsibility of undertaking and carrying out the subprograms established under subsection (b). In addition, the Secretary shall prepare a detailed plan within one hundred eighty days of , setting forth (1) the 3-year pilot program itself, and (2) any additional Federal actions needed to encourage and promote the adoption of programs for energy self-sufficiency.
Submission of plan and implementation report to Congress
The Secretary shall submit to the Congress, within one year after , the plan prepared under the second sentence of subsection (c) along with a report suggesting the legislative initiatives needed to fully implement such plan.
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 § 406 · 94 Stat. 611
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 7374
(Pub. L. 96–294, title IV, § 406, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 716.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–294, title IV, § 406, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 716.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 406. energy self-sufficiency initiatives (a) There is hereby established under the direction of the Secretary a 3-year pilot energy self-sufficiency program to demon-strate energy self-sufficiency through the use of renewable energy resources in one or more States in the United States. (b) As a part of the pilot program, the Secretary shall establish such Subprograms. subprograms as the Secretary determines are necessary to achieve the purpose of this section, including subprograms— (1) to promote the development and utilization of synergistic combinations of different renewable energy resources in specific projects aimed at reducing fossil fuel importation; (2) to initiate and encourage energy self-sufficiency at appropriate levels of government; (3) to stimulate private industry participation in the realization of the objective stated in subsection (a); and (4) to stimulate the utilization of abandoned or underutilized industrial facilities for the generation of energy from any locally available renewable resource, such as municipal solid waste, agricultural waste, or forest products waste. (c) In carrying out the provisions of this section, the Secretary is authorized to assign to an existing office in the Department of Energy the responsibility of undertaking and carrying out the subprograms established under subsection (b). In addition, the Secretary shall prepare a detailed plan within one hundred eighty days of the enactment of this Act, setting forth (1) the 3-year pilot program itself, and (2) any additional Federal actions needed to encourage and promote the adoption of programs for energy self-sufficiency. (d) The Secretary shall submit to the Congress, within one year Plan, submittal to Congress. after the date of the enactment of this Act, the plan prepared under the second sentence of subsection (c) along with a report suggesting the legislative initiatives needed to fully implement such plan.
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