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[CITE: 42USC5554]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                        CHAPTER 71--SOLAR ENERGY
 
         SUBCHAPTER II--RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMONSTRATION
 
Sec. 5554. Solar energy resource determination and assessment 
        program; objectives; implementation
        
    (a) The Chairman shall initiate a solar energy resource 
determination and assessment program with the objective of making a 
regional and national appraisal of all solar energy resources, including 
data on insolation, wind, sea thermal gradients, and potentials for 
photosynthetic conversion. The program shall emphasize identification of 
promising areas for commercial exploitation and development. The 
specific goals shall include--
        (1) the development of better methods for predicting the 
    availability of all solar energy resources, over long time periods 
    and by geographic location;
        (2) the development of advanced meteorological, oceanographic, 
    and other instruments, methodology, and procedures necessary to 
    measure the quality and quantity of all solar resources on periodic 
    bases;
        (3) the development of activities, arrangements, and procedures 
    for the collection, evaluation, and dissemination of information and 
    data relating to solar energy resource assessment.

    (b) The Chairman, acting through the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and 
other appropriate agencies, shall--
        (1) develop and carry out a general plan for inventorying all 
    forms of solar energy resources associated with Federal lands and 
    (where consistent with property rights) non-Federal lands;
        (2) conduct regional surveys based upon such general plan, using 
    innovative meteorological, oceanographic, and space-related 
    techniques, in sufficient numbers to lead to a national inventory of 
    solar energy resources in the United States;
        (3) publish and make available maps, reports, and other 
    documents developed from such surveys to encourage and facilitate 
    the commercial development of solar energy resources; and
        (4) make such recommendations for legislation as may appear to 
    be necessary to establish policies for solar resources involving 
    Federal lands and waters, consistent with known inventories of 
    various resource types, with the state of technologies for solar 
    energy development, and with evaluation of the environmental impacts 
    of such development.

(Pub. L. 93-473, Sec. 5, Oct. 26, 1974, 88 Stat. 1433.)
