Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102

§9207 Criteria for Program Selection

Title 42 › CHAPTER 100 — WIND ENERGY SYSTEMS › § 9207

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must set priorities that follow the chapter’s goals and meet these rules. Costs to build, operate, and maintain wind energy systems must be kept as low as possible; programs must work to make wind energy prices competitive with conventional energy; projects with cost-sharing from private, industrial, agricultural, or governmental groups or utilities should get priority; and if funds are limited, early years should focus on activities under sections 9204 and 9206 and later years on section 9205, but those priorities are not exclusive.

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Title 42, §9207

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The Secretary shall set priorities which are, as far as possible, consistent with the intent and purposes of this chapter and which are set in accordance with the following criteria:

(1)the construction, operation, and maintenance costs of wind energy systems shall be minimized;

(2)programs established under this chapter shall be conducted with the express intent of bringing wind energy system costs down to a level competitive with energy costs from conventional energy systems;

(3)priority shall be given in the conduct of programs established under this chapter to those projects in which cost-sharing funds are provided by private, industrial, agricultural, or governmental entities or utilities; and

(4)to the extent that the Secretary is limited by the availability of funds to carry out the objectives of this chapter, priority, but not exclusive emphasis, should be given in the early years of the programs to activities under section 9204 and 9206 of this title and in the later years of the programs to activities under section 9205 of this title.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 9207

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102