42 U.S.C. § 17242 — Commercial insulation demonstration program

(a) Definitions. "Advanced insulation" means insulation with an R value of at least R35 per inch. "Covered refrigeration unit" means a commercial refrigerated truck, a commercial refrigerated trailer, or a commercial refrigerator, freezer, or refrigerator-freezer as described in section 6313(c) of this title. (b) Report. Within 90 days after December 19, 2007, the Secretary must send Congress a report evaluating how advanced the technology is and how much money it could save if used in covered refrigeration units. (c) Demonstration program. (1) If the report shows the savings would be economically worthwhile, the Secretary, working with manufacturers of covered refrigeration units, must set up a demonstration program to prove advanced insulation is cost-effective. (2) For up to 5 years after an award is made under this program, the Secretary may keep information the Secretary decides is a trade secret or confidential business or financial information exempt from mandatory disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (section 552 of title 5), if that information came from a non-government source. (3) The cost-sharing rules in section 16352 of this title apply to any project under this subsection. (d) Authorization of appropriations. Congress authorized $8,000,000 total for fiscal years 2009 through 2014 to carry out this section.