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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—

(1)

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;

(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.

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. 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. 988

    Enacted 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.

  2. 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
  1. 1980Pub. L. 96–320, title I, § 110, , 94 Stat. 988
  2. 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.)

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