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[CITE: 42USC13313]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                       CHAPTER 134--ENERGY POLICY
 
                     SUBCHAPTER V--RENEWABLE ENERGY
 
Sec. 13313. Renewable Energy Advancement Awards


(a) Authority

    The Secretary shall make Renewable Energy Advancement Awards in 
recognition of developments that advance the practical application of 
biomass, geothermal, hydroelectric, photovoltaic, solar thermal, ocean 
thermal, and wind technologies to consumer, utility, or industrial uses, 
in accordance with this section. Except as provided in subsection (f) of 
this section, Renewable Energy Advancement Awards shall include a cash 
award.

(b) Selection criteria

    The Secretary, in consultation with the Advisory Committee on 
Demonstration and Commercial Application of Renewable Energy and Energy 
Efficiency Technologies (in this section referred to as the ``Advisory 
Committee''), under section 12005 of this title, shall develop criteria 
to be applied in the selection of award recipients under this section. 
Such criteria shall include the following:
        (1) The degree to which the technological development increases 
    the utilization of renewable energy.
        (2) The degree to which the development will have a significant 
    impact, by benefitting a large number of people, by reducing the 
    costs of an important industrial process or commercial product or 
    service, or otherwise.
        (3) The ingenuity of the development.
        (4) Whether the application has significant export potential.
        (5) The environmental soundness of the development.

(c) Selection

    Beginning in fiscal year 1994, and annually thereafter for a period 
of 10 years, the Secretary, in consultation with the Advisory Committee, 
shall select developments described in subsection (a) of this section 
that are worthy of receiving an award under this section, and shall make 
such awards.

(d) Eligibility

    Awards may be made under this section only to individuals who are 
United States nationals or permanent resident aliens, or to non-Federal 
organizations that are organized under the laws of the United States or 
the laws of a State of the United States.

(e) Authorization of appropriations

    There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary $50,000 for 
each of the fiscal years 1994, 1995, and 1996 for carrying out this 
section.

(f) Awards made in absence of appropriations

    The Secretary shall make honorary awards under this section if 
sufficient funds are not available for financial awards in any fiscal 
year.

(Pub. L. 102-486, title XII, Sec. 1204, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2961.)
