---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 5109"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "5109"
heading: "Relation of existing program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/5109"
units:
  - "Chapter 77 — Steel and Aluminum Energy Conservation and Technology Competitiveness"
---

# §5109. Relation of existing program


Proposals received by the Department of Energy before November 17, 1988, may be carried out without regard to changes in the [management plan](/usc/15/5102.md?p=3) and [research plan](/usc/15/5102.md?p=4) required by this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–680, § 10, Nov. 17, 1988, 102 Stat. 4076.)