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§5513 Priorities and Criteria of Demonstration Programs

Title 42 › CHAPTER 71 — SOLAR ENERGY › SUBCHAPTER I — HEATING AND COOLING › § 5513

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must set priorities for the demonstration programs in sections 5503, 5504, and 5507. The homes and other buildings used must be placed in many different parts of the United States so the tests show how solar heating and combined solar heating-and-cooling systems work in both rural and urban areas and in as many different climates as possible. The Secretary must also think about the projected costs to manufacture and maintain those systems. Projects should be encouraged when a State or local government has committed funds to help pay for buying and installing solar parts and systems, whether that money was committed before or after September 3, 1974.

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Title 42, §5513

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The Secretary shall set priorities as far as possible consistent with the intent and operation of this subchapter in accordance with the following criteria:

(a)The residential dwellings and other buildings which will be part of the demonstration programs referred to in section 5503, 5504, and 5507 of this title shall be located in a sufficient number of different geographic areas in the United States to assure a realistic and effective demonstration of the solar heating systems and combined solar heating and cooling systems involved, and of the dwellings and other buildings themselves, in both rural and urban locations and under climatic conditions which vary as much as possible.

(b)Consideration shall be given to projected costs of commercial production and maintenance of the solar heating systems and combined solar heating and cooling systems utilized in the demonstration programs.

(c)Encouragement should be given in the conduct of programs under this subchapter to those projects in which funds, appropriated by any State or political subdivision thereof for the purpose of sharing costs with the Federal Government for the purchase and installation of solar heating or combined solar heating and cooling components and systems, are committed before or after September 3, 1974.

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42 U.S.C. § 5513

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102