Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§9005 Technology Application

Title 42 › CHAPTER 98 — OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT › § 9005

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must work with NOAA, the Maritime Administration, NASA, and the Technical Panel to write a plan to reach the ten-thousand-megawatt national goal for ocean thermal energy by 1999. The plan must say what government steps are needed to build a 200- to 400-megawatt commercial demonstration on time, which financial, property, and patent packages will encourage early private projects at low federal cost, what actions will let the industry expand, how to remove legal or institutional barriers (like naming a lead agency), and what financial incentives (for example loan guarantees or price supports) could reduce economic uncertainty. The Secretary must send the plan to Congress within three years after July 17, 1980, and update it every year. Companies responding to competitive bids for pilot and demonstration projects must include a plan to scale their demo into a full-size first-of-a-kind facility and state the money and other contributions they will provide to help meet the national goals.

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Title 42, §9005

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(a)Technology application and market development plan

The Secretary shall, in consultation with the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Administrator of the Maritime Administration, the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Technical Panel established under section 9007 of this title, prepare a comprehensive technology application and market development plan that will permit realization of the ten-thousand-megawatt national goal by the year 1999. Such plans shall include at a minimum—

(1)an assessment of those Government actions required to achieve a two-hundred- to four-hundred-megawatt electrical-commercial demonstration of ocean thermal energy conversion systems in time to have industry meet the goal contained in section 9001(b)(2) of this title including a listing of those financial, property, and patent right packages most likely to lead to early commercial demonstration at minimum cost to the Federal Government;

(2)an assessment of further Government actions required to permit expansion of the domestic ocean thermal energy conversion industry to meet the goal contained in section 9001(b)(3) of this title;

(3)an analysis of further Government actions necessary to aid the industry in minimizing and removing any legal and institutional barriers such as the designation of a lead agency; and

(4)an assessment of the necessary Government actions to assist in eliminating economic uncertainties through financial incentives, such as loan guarantees, price supports, or other inducements.

(b)Transmittal of plan to Congress

The Secretary shall transmit such comprehensive technology application and market development plan to the Congress within three years after July 17, 1980, and update the plan on an annual basis thereafter.

(c)Respondent proposals

As part of the competitive procurement initiative for design and construction of the pilot and demonstration projects authorized in section 9009(c) of this title, each respondent shall include in its proposal (1) a plan leading to a full-scale, first-of-a-kind facility based on a proposed demonstration system; and (2) the financial and other contributions the respondent will make toward meeting the national goals.

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42 U.S.C. § 9005

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110