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§8235g Records and Reports

Title 42 › CHAPTER 91 — NATIONAL ENERGY CONSERVATION POLICY › SUBCHAPTER II — RESIDENTIAL ENERGY CONSERVATION › Part C — Residential Energy Efficiency Programs › § 8235g

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

State and local governments that apply for an approved plan, plus public utilities and people who sign contracts under those plans, must keep records and make reports the Secretary requires. The Secretary, after talking with the Comptroller General, and the Comptroller General may look at any books, papers, or reports that the Secretary says are relevant. They can do this at reasonable times and under reasonable conditions. The Secretary must send a yearly report to the President and give it to Congress with the Department of Energy’s annual report. The report must estimate the total energy saved, estimate yearly savings from each prototype residential energy-efficiency program, include an analysis (done with the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice) of each prototype’s effect on competition, and, if the Secretary thinks it is appropriate, analyze the effects and ways to expand these prototype programs and funding nationwide.

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Title 42, §8235g

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(a)Records

Each State and local government submitting any application for a plan which is approved under section 8235a(a) of this title, and each public utility and person or persons entering into a contract under such a plan, shall keep such records and make such reports as the Secretary may require. The Secretary and the Comptroller General of the United States shall have access, at reasonable times and under reasonable conditions, to any books, documents, papers, records, and reports of each such State and local government, utility, and person or persons which the Secretary determines, in consultation with the Comptroller General of the United States, are pertinent to this part.

(b)Reports

The Secretary shall make an annual report to the President on the activities carried out under this part which shall be submitted to the Congress with the annual report on the activities of the Department of Energy required by section 7267 of this title and which shall contain— (1)

(2)an estimate of the annual savings in energy anticipated as a result of each prototype residential energy efficiency program established under a plan approved under section 8235a(a) of this title;

(3)an analysis, developed in consultation with the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, of the impact on competition of each prototype residential energy efficiency program established under a plan approved under section 8235a(a) of this title; and

(4)if the Secretary determines that it is appropriate, an analysis of the impact of expanding the approval of plans under section 8235a(a) of this title to establish prototype residential energy efficiency programs, and the provision of financial assistance to such programs, on a national basis and an assessment of the alternative methods by which such an expansion could be accomplished.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 8235g

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110