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42 U.S.C. § 18715a — Transmission facility financing

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42 U.S.C. § 18715a — Transmission facility financing

**(a) Appropriation** In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Secretary for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $2,000,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2030, to carry out this section: Provided, That the Secretary shall not enter into any loan agreement pursuant to this section that could result in disbursements after September 30, 2031. **(b) Use of funds** The Secretary shall use the amounts made available by subsection (a) to carry out a program to pay the costs of direct loans to non-Federal borrowers, subject to the limitations that apply to loan guarantees under section 50141(d) and under such terms and conditions as the Secretary determines to be appropriate, for the construction or modification of electric transmission facilities designated by the Secretary to be necessary in the national interest under [section 824p(a) of title 16](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section824p/a&num=0&edition=prelim). **(c) Loans** A direct loan provided under this section— (1) shall have a term that does not exceed the lesser of— (A) 90 percent of the projected useful life, in years, of the eligible transmission facility; and (B) 30 years; (2) shall not exceed 80 percent of the project costs; and (3) shall, on first issuance, be subject to the condition that the direct loan is not subordinate to other financing. **(d) Interest rates** A direct loan provided under this section shall bear interest at a rate determined by the Secretary, taking into consideration market yields on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States of comparable maturities as of the date on which the direct loan is made. **(e) Definition of direct loan**

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2 U.S.C. § 661a — Requests to Congressional Budget Office from Senators

At the written request of a Senator, the Director shall, to the extent practicable, prepare an estimate of the direct costs of a Federal intergovernmental mandate contained in an amendment of such Senator.

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42 U.S.C. § 17113b — Cost-effective technology acceleration program

**(a) Definition of Administrator** In this section, the term “Administrator” means the Administrator of General Services. **(b) Establishment** (1) **In general** — The Administrator shall establish a program to accelerate the use of more cost-effective technologies and practices at GSA facilities. (2) **Requirements** — The program established under this subsection shall— (A) ensure centralized responsibility for the coordination of cost reduction-related recommendations, practices, and activities of all relevant Federal agencies; (B) provide technical assistance and operational guidance to applicable tenants to achieve the goal identified in subsection (c)(2)(B)(ii); (C) establish methods to track the success of Federal departments and agencies with respect to that goal; and (D) be fully coordinated with and no less stringent nor less energy-conserving or water-conserving than required by other provisions of this Act and other applicable law, including sections 321 through 324, 431 through 438, 461, 511 through 518, and 523 through 525 and amendments made by those sections. **(c) Accelerated use of technologies** (1) **Review** (A) *In general* — As part of the program under this section, not later than 90 days after December 19, 2007, the Administrator shall conduct a review of— (i) current use of cost-effective lighting technologies and geothermal heat pumps in GSA facilities; and (ii) the availability to managers of GSA facilities of cost-effective lighting technologies and geothermal heat pumps. (B) *Requirements* — The review under subparagraph (A) shall— (i) examine the use of cost-effective lighting technologies, geothermal heat pumps, and other cost-effective technologies and practices by Federal agencies in GSA facilitie

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42 U.S.C. § 18715a — Grants to facilitate the siting of inter-

Page 9206 TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE § 18715a Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 50141(d), referred to in subsec. (b), is section 50141(d) of Pub. L. 117–169, title V, Aug. 16, 2022, 136 Stat. 2043, which is not classified to the Code. CODIFICATION Section was enacted as part of Pub. L. 117–169, and not as part of div. D of Pub. L. 117–58, which enacted this chapter. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries DEFINITION OF ‘‘SECRETARY’’ ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of Energy, see sec- tion 50111 of Pub. L. 117–169, set out as a note under sec- tion 17113b of this title. § 18715a. Grants to facilitate the siting of inter- state electricity transmission lines (a) Appropriation In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Secretary for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $760,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2029, for mak- ing grants in accordance with this section and for administrative expenses associated with car- rying out this section. (b) Use of funds (1) In general The Secretary may make a grant under this section to a siting authority for, with respect to a covered transmission project, any of the following activities: (A) Studies and analyses of the impacts of the covered transmission project. (B) Examination of up to 3 alternate siting corridors within which the covered trans- mission project feasibly could be sited. (C) Participation by the siting authority in regulatory proceedings or negotiations in another jurisdiction, or under the auspices of a Transmission Organization (as defined in section 796 of title 16) that is also consid- ering the siting or permitting of the covered transmission project. (D) Participatio

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