---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 15824"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "15824"
heading: "State Technologies Advancement Collaborative"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/15824"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter I — Energy Efficiency"
  - "Part B — Energy Assistance and State Programs"
---

# §15824. State Technologies Advancement Collaborative

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4), in cooperation with the [States](/usc/42/15951.md?p=b-2), shall establish a cooperative program for research, development, demonstration, and deployment of technologies in which there is a common Federal and [State](/usc/42/15951.md?p=b-2) energy efficiency, renewable energy, and fossil energy interest, to be known as the “[State](/usc/42/15951.md?p=b-2) Technologies Advancement Collaborative” (referred to in this section as the “Collaborative”).
- (b) **Duties—** The Collaborative shall—
  - (1) leverage Federal and [State](/usc/42/15951.md?p=b-2) funding through cost-shared activity;
  - (2) reduce redundancies in Federal and [State](/usc/42/15951.md?p=b-2) funding; and
  - (3) create multistate [projects](/usc/42/16371.md?p=12) to be awarded through a competitive process.
- (c) **Administration—** The Collaborative shall be administered through an agreement between the [Department](/usc/42/15801.md?p=1) and appropriate [State](/usc/42/15951.md?p=b-2)-based organizations.
- (d) **Funding sources—** Funding for the Collaborative may be provided from—
  - (1) amounts specifically appropriated for the Collaborative; or
  - (2) amounts that may be allocated from other appropriations without changing the purpose for which the amounts are appropriated.
- (e) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to carry out this section such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title I, § 127, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 619.)