---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 12404"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "12404"
heading: "Demonstrations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/12404"
units:
  - "Chapter 128 — Hydrogen Research, Development, and Demonstration Program"
---

# §12404. Demonstrations

- (a) **Requirement—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/12401.md?p=c-3) shall conduct demonstrations of critical technologies, preferably in self-contained locations, so that technical and non-technical parameters can be evaluated to best determine commercial applicability of the technology.
- (b) **Small-scale demonstrations—** Concurrently with activities conducted pursuant to [section 12403 of this title](/usc/42/12403.md), the [Secretary](/usc/42/12401.md?p=c-3) shall conduct small-scale demonstrations of hydrogen technology at self-contained sites.
- (c) **Non-Federal funding—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/12401.md?p=c-3) shall require a commitment from non-Federal sources of at least 50 percent of the cost of any demonstration conducted under this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–566, § 105, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2799; Pub. L. 104–271, title I, § 104, Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3306.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1996—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104–271 added subsec. (c).