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[CITE: 42USC5584]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                        CHAPTER 71--SOLAR ENERGY
 
  SUBCHAPTER III--SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND 
                              DEMONSTRATION
 
Sec. 5584. Federal assistance application procedures; selection 
        of applicants; agreements; financial assistance; observation and 
        monitoring of photovoltaic systems; reports; projects and 
        activities
        
    (a) In carrying out the provisions of section 5583 of this title, 
the Secretary is authorized--
        (1) to establish procedures whereby any public or private entity 
    wishing to install solar photovoltaic components and systems in any 
    new or existing facility may apply for Federal assistance in 
    purchasing and installing, in such facility, photovoltaic components 
    or systems;
        (2) to select, as soon as he deems it feasible, a number of the 
    applicants under paragraph (1) and enter into agreements with them 
    for the design, purchase, fabrication, testing, installation, and 
    demonstration of photovoltaic components and systems. Such selection 
    shall be based on the need to obtain scientific, technological, and 
    economic information from a variety of such systems under a variety 
    of circumstances and conditions; and
        (3) to arrange, as part of any agreement entered into under 
    paragraph (2), to provide up to 75 per centum of the purchase and 
    installation costs of photovoltaic components or systems, taking 
    into account relevant considerations involving the relative stage of 
    consumer and industry interest and development at the time of the 
    financial assistance action. Such arrangements shall be contingent 
    upon terms and conditions prescribed by the Secretary, including an 
    express agreement that the entity with whom the agreement is entered 
    into shall, in such manner and form and on such terms and conditions 
    as the Secretary may prescribe, observe and monitor (or permit the 
    Secretary or his agents to observe and monitor) the performance and 
    operation of such system for a period of five years, and that such 
    entity (including any subsequent owner of the property) shall 
    regularly furnish the Secretary with such reports thereon as the 
    agreement may require.

    (b) The Secretary shall, as he deems appropriate, undertake any 
projects or activities (including demonstration projects) to further the 
attainment of the objectives of this section.

(Pub. L. 95-590, Sec. 5, Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2516.)

                          Codification

    Section 5583 of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the 
original ``section (4)'' and was translated section 5583 of this title 
as the probable intent of Congress.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 5586, 5592 of this title.
