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[CITE: 42USC9001]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
  CHAPTER 98--OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
 
Sec. 9001. Congressional findings and declaration of purpose

    (a) The Congress finds that--
        (1) the supply of nonrenewable fuels in the United States is 
    slowly being depleted;
        (2) alternative sources of energy must be developed;
        (3) ocean thermal energy is a renewable energy resource that can 
    make a significant contribution to the energy needs of the United 
    States;
        (4) the technology base for ocean thermal energy conversion has 
    improved over the past two years, and has consequently lowered the 
    technical risk involved in constructing moderate-sized pilot plants 
    with an electrical generating capacity of about ten to forty 
    megawatts;
        (5) while the Federal ocean thermal energy conversion program 
    has grown in size and scope over the past several years, it is in 
    the national interest to accelerate efforts to commercialize ocean 
    thermal energy conversion by building pilot and demonstration 
    facilities and to begin planning for the commercial demonstration of 
    ocean thermal energy conversion technology;
        (6) a strong and innovative domestic industry committed to the 
    commercialization of ocean thermal energy conversion must be 
    established, and many competent domestic industrial groups are 
    already involved in ocean thermal energy conversion research and 
    development activity; and
        (7) consistent with the findings of the Domestic Policy Review 
    on Solar Energy, ocean thermal energy conversion energy can 
    potentially contribute at least one-tenth of quad of energy per year 
    by the year 2000.

    (b) Therefore, the purpose of this chapter is to accelerate ocean 
thermal energy conversion technology development to provide a technical 
base for meeting the following goals:
        (1) demonstration by 1986 of at least one hundred megawatts of 
    electrical capacity or energy product equivalent from ocean thermal 
    energy conversion systems;
        (2) demonstration by 1989 of at least five hundred megawatts of 
    electrical capacity or energy product equivalent from ocean thermal 
    energy conversion systems;
        (3) achievement in the mid-1990's, for the gulf coast region of 
    the continental United States and for islands in the United States, 
    its possessions and its territories, an average cost of electricity 
    or energy product equivalent produced by installed ocean thermal 
    energy conversion systems that is competitive with conventional 
    energy sources; and
        (4) establish as a national goal ten thousand megawatts of 
    electrical capacity or energy product equivalent from ocean thermal 
    energy conversion systems by the year 1999.

(Pub. L. 96-310, Sec. 2, July 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 941.)


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 96-310 provided: ``That this Act [enacting this 
chapter] may be cited as the `Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Research, 
Development, and Demonstration Act'.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 9005 of this title.
