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16 U.S.C. § 2701 — Establishment of program
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The Secretary shall establish a program in accordance with this chapter to encourage municipalities, electric cooperatives, industrial development agencies, nonprofit organizations, and other persons to undertake the development of small hydroelectric power projects in connection with existing dams which are not being used to generate electric power.
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The Secretary shall establish a program in accordance with this chapter to encourage municipalities, electric cooperatives, industrial development agencies, nonprofit organizations, and other persons to undertake the development of small hydroelectric power projects in connection with existing dams which are not being used to generate electric power.
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**(a) Authority** The Secretary is authorized to make loans to any municipality, electric cooperative, industrial development agency, nonprofit organization, or other person of up to 75 percent of the project costs of a small hydroelectric power project. No such loan may be made unless the Secretary finds that—
(1) the project will be constructed in connection with an existing dam or dams,
(2) all licenses and other required Federal, State, and local approvals necessary for construction of the project have been issued,
(3) the project will have no significant adverse environmental effects, including significant adverse effects on fish and wildlife, on recreational use of water, and on stream flow, and
(4) the project will not have a significant adverse effect on any other use of the water used by such project.
The Secretary may make a commitment to make a loan under this subsection to an applicant who has not met the requirements of paragraph (2), pending compliance by such applicant with such requirements. Such commitment shall be for period 11 So in original. Probably should be “for a period”. of not to exceed 3 years unless the Secretary, in consultation with the Commission, extends such period for good cause shown. Notwithstanding any such commitment, no such loan shall be made before such person has complied with such requirements.
**(b) Preference** The Secretary shall give preference to applicants under this section who do not have available alternative financing which the Secretary deems appropriate to carry out the project and whose projects will provide useful information as to the technical and economic feasibility of—
(1) the generation of electric energy by such projects, and
(2) the use of energy produced by such projects.
**(c) Information** Eve
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The purpose of this subchapter is to establish incentives for the use of renewable energy resources, to improve and coordinate the dissemination of information to the public with respect to renewable energy resources, to encourage the use of certain cost effective solar energy systems and conservation measures by the Federal Government, to establish a program for the promotion of local energy self-sufficiency, to broaden the existing program for accelerating the procurement and use of photovoltaic systems, and to provide further encouragement for the development of small hydroelectric power projects.
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For purposes of this subchapter—
(1) the term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Energy; and
(2) the term “renewable energy resource” means any energy resource which has recently originated in the sun, including direct and indirect solar radiation and intermediate solar energy forms such as wind, ocean thermal gradients, ocean currents and waves, hydropower, photovoltaic energy, products of photosynthetic processes, organic wastes, and others.
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The Congress finds that—
(1) the dependence of the United States on imported petroleum and natural gas must be reduced by all economically and environmentally feasible means, including the use of biomass energy resources; and
(2) a national program for increased production and use of biomass energy that does not impair the Nation’s ability to produce food and fiber on a sustainable basis for domestic and export use must be formulated and implemented within a multiple-use framework.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 2701
(1) all information gathered by the institute
is available to the Secretary, the Commission,
and the public, and
(2) no portion of any such grant is used to
support or oppose any legislative proposal ex-
cept by means of testimony by representatives
of the institute provided by invitation to a
committee of Congress or of a State legisla-
ture.
(d) Authorization of appropriations
There is authorized to be appropriated not
more than $2,000,000 for each of the fiscal years
1979 and 1980 for purposes of making grants
under this section. No amounts may be appro-
priated for any fiscal year after the fiscal year
1980 to carry out the purposes of this section
without a specific authorization of Congress.
(Pub. L. 95–617, title VI, § 603, Nov. 9, 1978, 92
Stat. 3165.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
This Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(3), is Pub. L.
95–617, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3117, known as the Public
Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978. For complete
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title
note set out under section 2601 of this title and Tables.
CODIFICATION
This section was not enacted as part of title I of Pub.
L. 95–617 which comprises this chapter.
CHAPTER 47—SMALL HYDROELECTRIC
POWER PROJECTS
Sec.
2701.
Establishment of program.
2702.
Loans for feasibility studies.
2703.
Loans for project costs.
2704.
Loan rates and repayment.
2705.
Simplified and expeditious licensing proce-
dures.
2706.
New impoundments.
2707.
Authorizations.
2708.
Definitions.
§ 2701. Establishment of program
The Secretary shall establish a program in ac-
cordance with this chapter to encourage munici-
palities, electric cooperatives, industrial devel-
opment agencies, nonprofit organizations,
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