---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 16001"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "16001"
heading: "Energy efficiency in federally assisted housing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/16001"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter V — Indian Energy"
---

# §16001. Energy efficiency in federally assisted housing


The [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) of Housing and Urban Development shall promote energy conservation in housing that is located on Indian land and assisted with Federal resources through—

- (1) the use of energy-efficient technologies and innovations (including the procurement of energy-efficient refrigerators and other appliances);
- (2) the promotion of shared savings contracts; and
- (3) the use and implementation of such other similar technologies and innovations as the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) of Housing and Urban Development considers to be appropriate.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title V, § 506(a), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 779.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

For short title of title V of Pub. L. 109–58, which enacted this subchapter, as the “Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act of 2005”, see section 501 of Pub. L. 109–58, set out as a note under section 15801 of this title.