42 U.S.C. § 5501 — Congressional findings and declaration of policy
submitted 52 years ago by Pub. L. 93-409 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 384 words · no verdicts yet
Congress finds that energy shortages may continue, that solar heating and cooling could reduce fuel demand and help the economy, environment, trade, and national defense, and that research and demonstrations can speed commercial use. The policy is to demonstrate practical solar heating within three years and combined solar heating and cooling within five years.
(a) Findings. Congress finds that—
(1) the imbalance between fuel and energy supply and demand will probably continue for some time;
(2) an early demonstration that solar energy can heat and cool buildings could reduce demand for current fuel and energy supplies;
(3) solar-heating technology is close to commercial use in the United States;
(4) combined solar heating and cooling still needs research, development, testing, and demonstration, but no unsolvable technical problem is now expected to prevent commercial use;
(5) early development and export of workable solar-heating and combined systems, consistent with United States leadership in high technology, could help the balance of trade;
(6) widespread solar heating and cooling instead of conventional methods would significantly benefit the environment;
(7) mass production and use of solar equipment would reduce dependence on foreign energy and promote national defense;
(8) widespread low-cost solar energy would benefit consumers while fuel costs rise rapidly;
(9) direct contact among manufacturers, architects, engineers, developers, contractors, and others interested in installing systems could encourage innovation and creativity;
(10) carefully controlled testing could speed evaluation of performance and reliability; and
(11) early practical commercial demonstrations could speed commercial application.
(b) Policy. The United States policy and purpose of this subchapter are to demonstrate practical solar-heating technology within three years and develop and demonstrate practical combined heating-and-cooling technology within five years.
The Congress hereby finds that—
the current imbalance between supply and demand for fuels and energy is likely to persist for some time;
the early demonstration of the feasibility of using solar energy for the heating and cooling of buildings could help to relieve the demand upon present fuel and energy supplies;
the technologies for solar heating are close to the point of commercial application in the United States;
the technologies for combined solar heating and cooling still require research, development, testing and demonstration, but no insoluble technical problem is now foreseen in achieving commercial use of such technologies;
the early development and export of viable solar heating equipment and combined solar heating and cooling equipment, consistent with the established preeminence of the United States in the field of high technology products, can make a valuable contribution to our balance of trade;
the widespread use of solar energy in place of conventional methods for the heating and cooling of buildings would have a significantly beneficial effect upon the environment;
the mass production and use of solar heating and cooling equipment will help to eliminate the dependence of the United States upon foreign energy sources and promote the national defense;
the widespread introduction of low-cost solar energy will be beneficial to consumers in a period of rapidly rising fuel cost;
innovation and creativity in the development of solar heating and combined solar heating and cooling components and systems can be fostered through encouraging direct contact between the manufacturers of such systems and the architects, engineers, developers, contractors, and other persons interested in installing such systems in buildings;
evaluation of the performance and reliability of solar heating and combined solar heating and cooling technologies can be expedited by testing under carefully controlled conditions; and
commercial application of solar heating and combined solar heating and cooling technologies can be expedited by early commercial demonstration under practical conditions.
It is therefore declared to be the policy of the United States and the purpose of this subchapter to provide for the demonstration within a three-year period of the practical use of solar heating technology, and to provide for the development and demonstration within a five-year period of the practical use of combined heating and cooling technology.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 93–409, § 2, Sept. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1069.)
- 1974Enacted · Pub. L. 93-409 · 88 Stat. 1069
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