{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s7371","title_num":"42","num":"§ 7371.","heading":"Statement of purpose","status":null,"guid":"id776c1df0-4aa7-11eb-94f5-9ff2c44f6f3c","source_credit":"(Pub. L. 96–294, title IV, § 402, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 715.)","seq_in_title":5239,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch84/schXII","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/ch84","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 84—","heading":"DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch84/schXII","level":"subchapter","num":"SUBCHAPTER XII—","heading":"RENEWABLE ENERGY INITIATIVES","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=\"id8e6508a3-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t42/s7371\"><num value=\"7371\">§ 7371.</num><heading> Statement of purpose</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">The purpose of this subchapter is to establish incentives for the use of renewable energy resources, to improve and coordinate the dissemination of information to the public with respect to renewable energy resources, to encourage the use of certain cost effective solar energy systems and conservation measures by the Federal Government, to establish a program for the promotion of local energy self-sufficiency, to broaden the existing program for accelerating the procurement and use of photovoltaic systems, and to provide further encouragement for the development of small hydroelectric power projects.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id8e6508a4-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f\">(<ref href=\"/us/pl/96/294/tIV/s402\">Pub. L. 96–294, title IV, § 402</ref>, <date date=\"1980-06-30\">June 30, 1980</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/94/715\">94 Stat. 715</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id8e652fb5-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I75\" topic=\"referencesInText\" id=\"id8e652fb6-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f\">\n<heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">References in Text</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title IV of <ref href=\"/us/pl/96/294\">Pub. L. 96–294</ref>, <date date=\"1980-06-30\">June 30, 1980</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/94/715\">94 Stat. 715</ref>, known as the Renewable Energy Resources Act of 1980. For complete classification of title IV to the Code, see Short Title note set out below and Tables.</p>\n</note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"shortTitle\" id=\"id8e652fb7-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Short Title</heading><p>Section 401 of title IV <ref href=\"/us/pl/96/294\">Pub. L. 96–294</ref> provided that: <quotedContent origin=\"/us/pl/96/294\">“This title [enacting this subchapter, amending sections 8255, 8271, and 8274 to 8276 of this title and sections 2705 and 2708 of Title 16, Conservation, and enacting a provision set out as a note under <ref href=\"/us/usc/t16/s2701\">section 2701 of Title 16</ref>] may be cited as the ‘Renewable Energy Resources Act of 1980’.”</quotedContent>\n</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\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":"116-19","currency_date":"2019-05-31","congress":116,"law_num":19,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":174,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["25","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}