Title 42The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§18777 Harmonization of efforts and data

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 162— - ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION › § 18777

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Within 1 year after November 15, 2021, the Administrator must create a system to align agency data work as much as possible while keeping the data accurate. The system must: align the Administrator’s data collection with the EPA, other federal agencies, and state or regional energy credit registries; match the data it collects (including operating data on electricity generation and any emissions measurements) with those entities’ data; and coordinate its identification and reporting of energy‑use impacts and opportunities, including the community‑level economic and environmental impacts required under section 18773(b)(1)(C) of this title.

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Title 42, §18777

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Not later than 1 year after November 15, 2021, the Administrator shall establish a system to harmonize, to the maximum extent practicable and consistent with data integrity—
(1)the data collection efforts of the Administrator, including any data collection required under this subchapter, with the data collection efforts of—
(A)the Environmental Protection Agency, as the Administrator determines to be appropriate;
(B)other relevant Federal agencies, as the Administrator determines to be appropriate; and
(C)State or regional energy credit registries, as the Administrator determines to be appropriate;
(2)the data collected under this subchapter, including the operating data on electricity generation collected under section 18772(a) of this title, with data collected by the entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (C) of paragraph (1), including any measurements of greenhouse gas and other pollutant emissions collected by the Environmental Protection Agency, as the Administrator determines to be appropriate; and
(3)the efforts of the Administrator to identify and report relevant impacts, opportunities, and patterns with respect to energy use, including the identification of community-level economic and environmental impacts required under section 18773(b)(1)(C) of this title, with the efforts of the Environmental Protection Agency and other relevant Federal agencies, as determined by the Administrator, to identify similar impacts, opportunities, and patterns.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 18777

Title 42The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73