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legal/us/code/title-42/chapter-98/section-9006.md

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+title: "42 U.S.C. § 9006"
+description: "Program selection criteria"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 42
+title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
+chapter_number: "98"
+chapter_name: "OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT"
+section: "9006"
+citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9006"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
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+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s9006"
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+---
+
+# 42 U.S.C. § 9006 - Program selection criteria
+
+## Text
+
+The Secretary shall, in fulfilling his responsibilities under this chapter, select program activities and set priorities which are consistent with the following criteria:
+
+(1) realization of energy production costs for ocean thermal energy conversion systems that are competitive with costs from conventional energy production systems;
+
+(2) encouragement of projects for which contributions to project costs are forthcoming from private, industrial, utility, or governmental entities for the purpose of sharing with the Federal Government the costs of purchasing and installing ocean thermal energy conversion systems;
+
+(3) promotion of ocean thermal energy conversion facilities for coastal areas, islands, and isolated military institutions which are vulnerable to interruption in the fossil fuel supply;
+
+(4) preference for and priority to persons and domestic firms whose base of operations is in the United States as will assure that the program under this chapter promotes the development of a United States domestic technology for ocean thermal energy conversion; and
+
+(5) preference for proposals for pilot and demonstration projects in which the respondents certify their intent to become an integral part of the industrial infrastructure necessary to meet the goals of this chapter.
+
+(Pub. L. 96–310, § 7, July 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 944.)