Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 99 — Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
§ 9120. Monitoring of licensees’ activities
Statutory text
Each license shall require the licensee—
to allow the Administrator to place appropriate Federal officers or employees in or aboard the ocean thermal energy conversion facility or plantship to which the license applies, at such times and to such extent as the Administrator deems reasonable and necessary to assess compliance with any condition or regulation applicable to the license, and to report to the Administrator whenever such officers or employees have reason to believe there is a failure to comply;
to cooperate with such officers and employees in the performance of monitoring functions; and
to monitor the environmental effects, if any, of the operation of the ocean thermal energy conversion facility or plantship in accordance with regulations issued by the Administrator, and to submit such information as the Administrator finds to be necessary and appropriate to assess environmental impacts and to develop and evaluate mitigation methods and possibilities.
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.
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Act of 1980
Pub. L. 96–320 title I § 110 · 94 Stat. 974
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 9120
Pub. L. 96–320, title I, § 110, Aug. 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 988
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 96–320, title I, § 110, Aug. 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 988Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 110. MONITORING OF LICENSEES’ ACTIVITIES. Each license shall require the licensee— (1) to allow the Administrator to place appropriate Federal officers or employees aboard the ocean thermal energy conversion facility or plantship to which the license applies, at such times and to such extent as the Administrator deems reasonable and necessary to assess compliance with any condition or regulation applicable to the license, and to report to the Administrator whenever such officers or employees have reason to believe there is a failure to comply; (2) to cooperate with such officers and employees in the performance of monitoring functions; and (3) to monitor the environmental effects, if any, of the operation of the ocean thermal energy conversion facility or plantship in accordance with regulations issued by the Administrator, and to submit such information as the Administrator finds to be necessary and appropriate to assess environmental impacts and to develop and evaluate mitigation methods and possibilities.Pub. L. 98–623 title VI § 602(a)(8) · 98 Stat. 3394
Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 9120(1)
Pub. L. 98–623 substituted “in or aboard” for “aboard”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Par. (1). Pub. L. 98–623 substituted “in or aboard” for “aboard”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(8) in section 110(1) by striking out “aboard” and inserting in 42 USC 9120. lieu thereof “in or aboard”;
2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1984—Par. (1). Pub. L. 98–623 substituted “in or aboard” for “aboard”.
Credits
1980–1984 · 2 acts
- 1980Pub. L. 96–320, title I, § 110, , 94 Stat. 988
- 1984Pub. L. 98–623, title VI, § 602(a)(8), , 98 Stat. 3411.
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(Pub. L. 96–320, title I, § 110, , 94 Stat. 988; Pub. L. 98–623, title VI, § 602(a)(8), , 98 Stat. 3411.)