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[CITE: 42USC5590]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                        CHAPTER 71--SOLAR ENERGY
 
  SUBCHAPTER III--SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND 
                              DEMONSTRATION
 
Sec. 5590. Submittal to Congressional committees of plan for 
        demonstrating applications of photovoltaic systems and 
        facilitating use in other nations; encouragement of 
        international participation and cooperation; coordination and 
        consistency of plan and international activities with similar 
        activities and programs
        
    (a) Within one year after November 4, 1978, the Secretary, in 
consultation with the Secretary of State, the Administrator of the 
Agency for International Development, the Director of the Export/Import 
Bank and other appropriate Federal officials, shall submit to the House 
Committee on Science and Technology and the Senate Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources a plan for demonstrating applications of solar 
photovoltaic energy systems and facilitating their widespread use in 
other nations, especially those with agreements for scientific 
cooperation with the United States.
    (b) The Secretary is authorized to encourage, to the maximum extent 
practicable, international participation and cooperation in the 
development and maintenance of programs established under this plan. The 
Secretary, in consultation and cooperation with the Federal officials 
specified in subsection (a) of this section, shall insure to the maximum 
extent possible that the plan submitted under subsection (a) of this 
section and any other international activities under this section are 
consistent with and reflective of any similar activities or requirements 
under any other Federal statute, specifically including any of the 
several programs under other agencies and Departments involving United 
States international cooperation and assistance in nonnuclear energy 
technology, and will not duplicate activities under such programs. The 
plan required in subsection (a) of this section shall specifically 
identify all such programs and statutes and describe how the activities 
under this section will be consistent with such programs, will be 
coordinated with them, and will avoid duplication of activities under 
such programs.

(Pub. L. 95-590, Sec. 11, Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2520; Pub. L. 103-82, 
title IV, Sec. 405(j), Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 922.)


                               Amendments

    1993--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-82 struck out ``the Director of 
ACTION,'' after ``International Development,''.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Science and Technology of House of Representatives 
changed to Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of House of 
Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundredth Congress, Jan. 
6, 1987. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of House of 
Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Science of House of 
Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note 
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.


                    Effective Date of 1993 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 103-82 effective Apr. 4, 1994, see section 
406(b) of Pub. L. 103-82, set out as a note under section 8332 of Title 
5, Government Organization and Employees.
