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42 U.S.C. § 8201 — Findings and statement of purposes
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**(a) Findings** The Congress finds that—
(1) the United States has survived a period of energy shortage and has made significant progress toward improving energy efficiency in all sectors of the economy;
(2) effective measures must continue to be taken by the Federal Government and other users and suppliers of energy to control the rate of growth of demand for energy and the efficiency of its use;
(3) the continuation of this effort will permit the United States to become increasingly independent of the world oil market, less vulnerable to interruption of foreign oil supplies, and more able to provide energy to meet future needs; and
(4) all sectors of the economy of the United States should continue to reduce significantly the demand for nonrenewable energy resources such as oil and natural gas by implementing and maintaining effective conservation measures for the efficient use of these and other energy sources.
**(b) Statement of purposes** The purposes of this chapter are to provide for the regulation of interstate commerce, to reduce the growth in demand for energy in the United States, and to conserve nonrenewable energy resources produced in this Nation and elsewhere, without inhibiting beneficial economic growth.
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**(a) Findings** The Congress finds that—
(1) the United States has survived a period of energy shortage and has made significant progress toward improving energy efficiency in all sectors of the economy;
(2) effective measures must continue to be taken by the Federal Government and other users and suppliers of energy to control the rate of growth of demand for energy and the efficiency of its use;
(3) the continuation of this effort will permit the United States to become increasingly independent of the world oil market, less vulnerable to interruption of foreign oil supplies, and more able to provide energy to meet future needs; and
(4) all sectors of the economy of the United States should continue to reduce significantly the demand for nonrenewable energy resources such as oil and natural gas by implementing and maintaining effective conservation measures for the efficient use of these and other energy sources.
**(b) Statement of purposes** The purposes of this chapter are to provide for the regulation of interstate commerce, to reduce the growth in demand for energy in the United States, and to conserve nonrenewable energy resources produced in this Nation and elsewhere, without inhibiting beneficial economic growth.
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**(a) Civil penalty** Whoever violates [section 6394 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section6394&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 for each violation.
**(b) Penalty for willful violation** Whoever willfully violates [section 6394 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section6394&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be fined not more than $10,000 for each violation.
**(c) Penalty for violation after having been subjected to civil penalty for prior violation** Any person who knowingly and willfully violates [section 6394 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section6394&num=0&edition=prelim) with respect to the sale, offer of sale, or distribution in commerce of a product or commodity after having been subjected to a civil penalty for a prior violation of [section 6394 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section6394&num=0&edition=prelim) with respect to the sale, offer of sale, or distribution in commerce of such product or commodity shall be fined not more than $50,000 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both.
**(d) Injunction action by Attorney General** Whenever it appears to any officer or agency of the United States in whom is vested, or to whom is delegated, authority under this chapter that any person has engaged, is engaged, or is about to engage in acts or practices constituting a violation of [section 6394 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section6394&num=0&edition=prelim), such officer or agency may request the Attorney General to bring an action in an appropriate district cour
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**(a) Use of STP and Congestion Mitigation Program Funds.—** Subject to project approval by the Secretary, a State may obligate funds apportioned to it under sections 104(b)(2) and 104(b)(4) of this title for construction of pedestrian walkways and bicycle and shared micromobility transportation facilities and for carrying out nonconstruction projects related to safe access for bicyclists and pedestrians.
**(b) Use of National Highway Performance Program Funds.—** Subject to project approval by the Secretary, a State may obligate funds apportioned to it under [section 104(b)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title23-section104/b/1&num=0&edition=prelim) for construction of pedestrian walkways and bicycle transportation facilities on land adjacent to any highway on the National Highway System.
**(c) Use of Federal Lands Highway Funds.—** Funds authorized for forest highways, forest development roads and trails, public lands development roads and trails, park roads, parkways, Indian reservation roads, and public lands highways shall be available, at the discretion of the department charged with the administration of such funds, for the construction of pedestrian walkways and bicycle transportation facilities.
**(d) State Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinators.—** Each State receiving an apportionment under sections 104(b)(2) and 104(b)(4) of this title shall use such amount of the apportionment as may be necessary to fund in the State department of transportation up to 2 positions of bicycle and pedestrian coordinator for promoting and facilitating the increased use of nonmotorized modes of transportation, including developing facilities for the use of pedestrians and bicyclists and public education, promotional, and safety prog
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**(a) Energy performance requirement for Federal buildings**
(1) Subject to paragraph (2), each agency shall apply energy conservation measures to, and shall improve the design for the construction of, the Federal buildings of the agency (including each industrial or laboratory facility) so that the energy consumption per gross square foot of the Federal buildings of the agency in fiscal years 2006 through 2015 is reduced, as compared with the energy consumption per gross square foot of the Federal buildings of the agency in fiscal year 2003, by the percentage specified in the following table: Fiscal YearPercentage Reduction 20062 20074 20089 200912 201015 201118 201221 201324 201427 201530.
(2) An agency may exclude from the requirements of paragraph (1) any building, and the associated energy consumption and gross square footage, in which energy intensive activities are carried out. Each agency shall identify and list in each report made under [section 8258(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section8258/a&num=0&edition=prelim) the buildings designated by it for such exclusion.
(3) Not later than December 31, 2014, the Secretary shall review the results of the implementation of the energy performance requirement established under paragraph (1) and submit to Congress recommendations concerning energy performance requirements for fiscal years 2016 through 2025.
**(b) Energy and water management requirement for Federal agencies**
(1) **In general.—** — Each agency shall—
(A) not later than October 1, 2022, to the maximum extent practicable, begin installing in Federal buildings owned by the United States all energy and water conservation measures determined by the Secretary to be life cycle cost-effective (as def
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**(a) Acts prohibited** It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, enter into commerce, ship, transport, or receive any toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm unless such firearm contains, or has affixed to it, a marking approved by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, as provided in subsection (b).
**(b) Distinctive marking or device; exception; waiver; adjustments and changes**
(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) or (3), each toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm shall have as an integral part, permanently affixed, a blaze orange plug inserted in the barrel of such toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm. Such plug shall be recessed no more than 6 millimeters from the muzzle end of the barrel of such firearm.
(2) The Consumer Product Safety Commission may provide for an alternate marking or device for any toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm not capable of being marked as provided in paragraph (1) and may waive the requirement of any such marking or device for any toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm that will only be used in the theatrical, movie or television industry.
(3) The Consumer Product Safety Commission is authorized to make adjustments and changes in the marking system provided for by this section, after consulting with interested persons.
**(c) “Look-alike firearm” defined** For purposes of this section, the term “look-alike firearm” means any imitation of any original firearm which was manufactured, designed, and produced since 1898, including and limited to toy guns, water guns, replica nonguns, and air-soft guns firing nonmetallic projectiles. Such term does not include any look-alike, nonfiring, collector replica of an antique firearm developed prior to 1898, or traditional B–B, paint-ball, or pellet-firing air guns that expel a pro
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As used in this chapter—
**(a)** The term “Board of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the Corporation.
**(b)** The term “Corporation” means the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation created by this chapter.
**(c)** The term “law” includes any law of the United States or of any State (including any rule of law or of equity).
**(d)** The term “mortgage” includes such classes of liens as are commonly given or are legally effective to secure advances on, or the unpaid purchase price of, real estate under the laws of the State in which the real estate is located or a manufactured home that is personal property under the laws of the State in which the manufactured home is located together with the credit instruments, if any, secured thereby, and includes interests in mortgages.
**(e)** The term “organization” means any corporation, partnership, association, business trust, or business entity.
**(f)** The term “prescribe” means to prescribe by regulations or otherwise.
**(g)** The term “property” includes any property, whether real, personal, mixed, or otherwise, including without limitation on the generality of the foregoing choses in action and mortgages, and includes any interest in any of the foregoing.
**(h)** The term “residential mortgage” means a mortgage which (1) is a mortgage on real estate, in fee simple or under a leasehold having such term as may be prescribed by the Corporation, upon which there is located a structure or structures designed in whole or in part for residential use, or which comprises or includes one or more condominium units or dwelling units (as defined by the Corporation) and (2) has such characteristics and meets such requirements as to amount, term, repayment provisions, number of families, status as a lien on such real esta
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**(a) Creation; succession; principal and other offices**
(1) There is created a body corporate to be known as the “Federal National Mortgage Association”, which shall be in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Association shall have succession until dissolved by Act of Congress. It shall maintain its principal office in the District of Columbia and shall be deemed, for purposes of venue in civil actions, to be a resident thereof. Agencies or offices may be established by the Association in such other place or places as it may deem necessary or appropriate in the conduct of its business.
(2) On September 1, 1968, the body corporate described in the foregoing paragraph shall cease to exist in that form and is hereby partitioned into two separate and distinct bodies corporate, each of which shall have continuity and corporate succession as a separated portion of the previously existing body corporate, as follows:
(A) One of such separated portions shall be a body corporate without capital stock to be known as Government National Mortgage Association (hereinafter referred to as the “Association”), which shall be in the Department of Housing and Urban Development and which shall retain the assets and liabilities acquired and incurred under sections 1720 11 See References in Text note below. and 1721 of this title prior to such date, including any and all liabilities incurred pursuant to subsection (c). The Association shall have succession until dissolved by Act of Congress. It shall maintain its principal office in the District of Columbia and shall be deemed, for purposes of venue in civil actions, to be a resident thereof. Agencies or offices may be established by the Association in such other place or places as it may deem necessary or appropriate i
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**(a) Procedures for termination of gas service** The procedures for termination of service referred to in [section 3203(b)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section3203/b/1&num=0&edition=prelim) are procedures prescribed by the State regulatory authority (with respect to gas utilities for which it has ratemaking authority) or the nonregulated gas utility which provide that—
(1) no gas service to a gas consumer may be terminated unless reasonable prior notice (including notice of rights and remedies) is given to such consumer and such consumer has a reasonable opportunity to dispute the reasons for such termination, and
(2) during any period when termination of service to a gas consumer would be especially dangerous to health, as determined by the State regulatory authority (with respect to each gas utility for which it has ratemaking authority) or nonregulated gas utility, and such consumer establishes that—
(A) he is unable to pay for such service in accordance with the requirements of the utility’s billing, or
(B) he is able to pay for such service but only in installments,
such service may not be terminated.
Such procedures shall take into account the need to include reasonable provisions for elderly and handicapped consumers.
**(b) Advertising**
(1) For purposes of this section and [section 3203 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section3203&num=0&edition=prelim)—
(A) The term “advertising” means the commercial use, by a gas utility, of any media, including newspaper, printed matter, radio, and television, in order to transmit a message to a substantial number of members of the public or to such utility’s gas consumers.
(B) The term “political adv
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**(a) Cost of service** In undertaking the consideration and making the determination under [section 2621 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section2621&num=0&edition=prelim) with respect to the standard concerning cost of service established by [section 2621(d)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section2621/d/1&num=0&edition=prelim), the costs of providing electric service to each class of electric consumers shall, to the maximum extent practicable, be determined on the basis of methods prescribed by the State regulatory authority (in the case of a State regulated electric utility) or by the electric utility (in the case of a nonregulated electric utility). Such methods shall to the maximum extent practicable—
(1) permit identification of differences in cost-incurrence, for each such class of electric consumers, attributable to daily and seasonal time of use of service and
(2) permit identification of differences in cost-incurrence attributable to differences in customer demand, and energy components of cost. In prescribing such methods, such State regulatory authority or nonregulated electric utility shall take into account the extent to which total costs to an electric utility are likely to change if—
(A) additional capacity is added to meet peak demand relative to base demand; and
(B) additional kilowatt-hours of electric energy are delivered to electric consumers.
**(b) Time-of-day rates** In undertaking the consideration and making the determination required under [section 2621 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section2621&num=0&edition=prelim) with respect to the standard for time-of-day rates established
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**(a) In general**
(1) **Objectives** — The Secretary shall conduct programs of energy efficiency research, development, demonstration, and commercial application, including activities described in this part. Such programs shall take into consideration the following objectives:
(A) Increasing the energy efficiency of vehicles, buildings, and industrial processes.
(B) Reducing the demand of the United States for energy, especially energy from foreign sources.
(C) Reducing the cost of energy and making the economy more efficient and competitive.
(D) Improving the energy security of the United States.
(E) Reducing the environmental impact of energy-related activities.
(2) **Programs** — Programs under this part shall include research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of—
(A) advanced, cost-effective technologies to improve the energy efficiency and environmental performance of vehicles, including—
(i) hybrid and electric propulsion systems;
(ii) plug-in hybrid systems;
(iii) advanced combustion engines;
(iv) weight and drag reduction technologies;
(v) whole-vehicle design optimization; and
(vi) advanced drive trains;
(B) cost-effective technologies, for new construction and retrofit, to improve the energy efficiency and environmental performance of buildings, using a whole-buildings approach, including onsite renewable energy generation;
(C) advanced technologies to improve the energy efficiency, environmental performance, and process efficiency of energy-intensive and waste-intensive industries;
(D) advanced control devices to improve the energy efficiency of electric motors, including those used in industrial processes, heating, ventilation, and cooling; and
(E) technologies to improve th
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The President shall conduct a study which shall monitor the weatherization activities authorized by this Act and amendments made thereby and those weatherization activities undertaken, independently of this Act and such amendments. The President shall report to the Congress within one year from November 9, 1978, and annually thereafter, concerning—
(1) the extent of progress being made through weatherization activities toward the achievement of national energy conservation goals;
(2) adequacy and costs of materials necessary for weatherization activities; and
(3) the need for and desirability of modifying weatherization activities authorized by this Act, and amendments made thereby and of extending such activities to a broader range of income groups than are being assisted under this Act and such amendments.
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