{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s15851","title_num":"42","num":"§ 15851.","heading":"Assessment of renewable energy resources","status":null,"guid":"id7b9a0ffd-4aa7-11eb-94f5-9ff2c44f6f3c","source_credit":"(Pub. L. 109–58, title II, § 201, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 650.)","seq_in_title":7420,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch149/schII/ptA","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42","level":"title","num":"Title 42—","heading":"THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch149","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 149—","heading":"NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY AND PROGRAMS","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch149/schII","level":"subchapter","num":"SUBCHAPTER II—","heading":"RENEWABLE ENERGY","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch149/schII/ptA","level":"part","num":"Part A—","heading":"General Provisions","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"idad73b23a-09a0-11eb-a85b-f5cef3d06f4d\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t42/s15851\"><num value=\"15851\">§ 15851.</num><heading> Assessment of renewable energy resources</heading><subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I19\" class=\"indent2 firstIndent-2\" id=\"idad73b23b-09a0-11eb-a85b-f5cef3d06f4d\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t42/s15851/a\"><num value=\"a\" class=\"bold\">(a)</num><heading class=\"bold\"> Resource assessment</heading><content><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Not later than 6 months after <date date=\"2005-08-08\">August 8, 2005</date>, and each year thereafter, the Secretary shall review the available assessments of renewable energy resources within the United States, including solar, wind, biomass, ocean (including tidal, wave, current, and thermal), geothermal, and hydroelectric energy resources, and undertake new assessments as necessary, taking into account changes in market conditions, available technologies, and other relevant factors.</p>\n</content>\n</subsection>\n<subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I19\" class=\"indent2 firstIndent-2\" id=\"idad73b23c-09a0-11eb-a85b-f5cef3d06f4d\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t42/s15851/b\"><num value=\"b\" class=\"bold\">(b)</num><heading class=\"bold\"> Contents of reports</heading><chapeau style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Not later than 1 year after <date date=\"2005-08-08\">August 8, 2005</date>, and each year thereafter, the Secretary shall publish a report based on the assessment under subsection (a). The report shall contain—</chapeau><paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"idad73b23d-09a0-11eb-a85b-f5cef3d06f4d\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t42/s15851/b/1\"><num value=\"1\">(1)</num><content> a detailed inventory describing the available amount and characteristics of the renewable energy resources; and</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"idad73b23e-09a0-11eb-a85b-f5cef3d06f4d\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t42/s15851/b/2\"><num value=\"2\">(2)</num><content> such other information as the Secretary believes would be useful in developing such renewable energy resources, including descriptions of surrounding terrain, population and load centers, nearby energy infrastructure, location of energy and water resources, and available estimates of the costs needed to develop each resource, together with an identification of any barriers to providing adequate transmission for remote sources of renewable energy resources to current and emerging markets, recommendations for removing or addressing such barriers, and ways to provide access to the grid that do not unfairly disadvantage renewable or other energy producers.</content>\n</paragraph>\n</subsection>\n<subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I19\" class=\"indent2 firstIndent-2\" id=\"idad73d94f-09a0-11eb-a85b-f5cef3d06f4d\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t42/s15851/c\"><num value=\"c\" class=\"bold\">(c)</num><heading class=\"bold\"> Authorization of appropriations</heading><content><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">For the purposes of this section, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.</p>\n</content>\n</subsection>\n<sourceCredit id=\"idad73d950-09a0-11eb-a85b-f5cef3d06f4d\">(<ref href=\"/us/pl/109/58/tII/s201\">Pub. L. 109–58, title II, § 201</ref>, <date date=\"2005-08-08\">Aug. 8, 2005</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/119/650\">119 Stat. 650</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-163","currency_date":"2020-10-02","congress":116,"law_num":163,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":214,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["01","02","03","06","07","08","10","15","17","18","21","22","23","26","28","31","35","36","38","40","42","45","49","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}