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[CITE: 42USC5506]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                        CHAPTER 71--SOLAR ENERGY
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--HEATING AND COOLING
 
Sec. 5506. Test procedures and definitive performance criteria 
        for solar heating and combined solar heating and cooling 
        components and systems and suitable dwellings; determination, 
        consultation and publication in Federal Register
        
    As soon as feasible, and utilizing data available from the 
demonstration programs under sections 5503 and 5504 of this title, the 
Secretary, utilizing the services of the Director of the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology and in consultation with the 
Administrator and the Secretary of Energy shall determine, prescribe, 
and publish in the Federal Register in accordance with the applicable 
provisions regarding rulemaking prescribed by section 553 of title 5,
        (1) definitive performance criteria for solar heating and 
    combined solar heating and cooling components and systems to be used 
    in residential dwellings, taking into account climatic variations 
    existing between different geographic areas;
        (2) definitive performance criteria (relating to suitability for 
    solar heating and for combined solar heating and cooling) for such 
    dwellings, taking into account climatic variations existing between 
    different geographic areas; and
        (3) procedures whereby manufacturers of solar heating and 
    combined solar heating and cooling components and systems shall have 
    their products tested in order to provide certification that such 
    products conform to the performance criteria established under 
    paragraph (1).

(Pub. L. 93-409, Sec. 8, Sept. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1073; Pub. L. 93-438, 
title I, Sec. 104(f), title III, Sec. 301(h), Oct. 11, 1974, 88 Stat. 
1238, 1250; Pub. L. 95-91, title III, Sec. 301(a), title VII, Secs. 703, 
707, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 577, 606, 607; Pub. L. 100-418, title V, 
Sec. 5115(c), Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1433.)


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-418 substituted ``National Institute of Standards 
and Technology'' for ``National Bureau of Standards''.

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``Secretary of Energy'' substituted in text for ``Director'', 
meaning Director of National Science Foundation, pursuant to sections 
104(f) and 301(h) of Pub. L. 93-438, which are classified to sections 
5814(f) and 5871(h) of this title and which transferred functions of 
National Science Foundation relating to or utilized in connection with 
solar heating and cooling development to Administrator of Energy 
Research and Development Administration, and pursuant to sections 
301(a), 703, and 707 of Pub. L. 95-91, which are classified to sections 
7151(a), 7293, and 7297 of this title and which terminated Energy 
Research and Development Administration and transferred its functions 
and functions of Administrator thereof (with certain exceptions) to 
Secretary of Energy.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 5509 of this title.
