--- kind: "section" citation: "42 U.S.C. § 17383" title: "42" title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare" number: "17383" heading: "Smart Grid Advisory Committee and Smart Grid Task Force" release: "119-102" date: "2026-07-12" url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/17383" units: - "Chapter 152 — Energy Independence and Security" - "Subchapter IX — Smart Grid" --- # §17383. Smart Grid Advisory Committee and Smart Grid Task Force - (a) **Smart Grid Advisory Committee—** - (1) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3) shall establish, within 90 days of December 19, 2007, a Smart Grid [Advisory Committee](/usc/42/17061.md?p=2) (either as an independent entity or as a designated sub-part of a larger [advisory committee](/usc/42/17061.md?p=2) on electricity matters). The Smart Grid [Advisory Committee](/usc/42/17061.md?p=2) shall include eight or more members appointed by the [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3) who have sufficient experience and expertise to represent the full range of smart grid technologies and services, to represent both private and non-Federal public sector stakeholders. One member shall be appointed by the [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3) to Chair the Smart Grid [Advisory Committee](/usc/42/17061.md?p=2). - (2) **Mission—** The mission of the Smart Grid [Advisory Committee](/usc/42/17061.md?p=2) shall be to advise the [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3), the Assistant [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3), and other relevant Federal officials concerning the development of smart grid technologies, the progress of a national transition to the use of smart-grid technologies and services, the evolution of widely-accepted technical and practical standards and protocols to allow interoperability and inter-communication among smart-grid capable devices, and the optimum means of using Federal incentive authority to encourage such progress. - (3) **Applicability of chapter 10 of title 5—** [Chapter 10](/usc/5/chptI/ch10.md) of title 5 shall apply to the Smart Grid [Advisory Committee](/usc/42/17061.md?p=2). - (b) **Smart Grid Task Force—** - (1) **Establishment—** The Assistant [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3) of the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability shall establish, within 90 days of December 19, 2007, a Smart Grid [Task Force](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3) composed of designated employees from the various divisions of that office who have responsibilities related to the transition to smart-grid technologies and [practices](/usc/42/17061.md?p=19). The Assistant [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3) or his designee shall be identified as the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Smart Grid [Task Force](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3). The Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall each designate at least one employee to participate on the Smart Grid [Task Force](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3). Other members may come from other [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) at the invitation of the Assistant [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3) or the nomination of the head of such other [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1). The Smart Grid [Task Force](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3) shall, without disrupting the work of the Divisions or Offices from which its members are drawn, provide an identifiable Federal entity to embody the Federal role in the national transition toward development and use of smart grid technologies. - (2) **Mission—** The mission of the Smart Grid [Task Force](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3) shall be to insure awareness, coordination and integration of the diverse activities of the Office and elsewhere in the Federal Government related to smart-grid technologies and [practices](/usc/42/17061.md?p=19), including but not limited to: smart grid research and development; development of widely accepted smart-grid standards and protocols; the relationship of smart-grid technologies and [practices](/usc/42/17061.md?p=19) to electric utility regulation; the relationship of smart-grid technologies and [practices](/usc/42/17061.md?p=19) to infrastructure development, system reliability and security; and the relationship of smart-grid technologies and [practices](/usc/42/17061.md?p=19) to other facets of electricity supply, demand, transmission, distribution, and policy. The Smart Grid [Task Force](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3) shall collaborate with the Smart Grid [Advisory Committee](/usc/42/17061.md?p=2) and other Federal [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) and offices. The Smart Grid [Task Force](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3) shall meet at the call of its [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) as necessary to accomplish its mission. - (c) **Authorization—** There are authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of this section such sums as are necessary to the [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3) to support the operations of the Smart Grid [Advisory Committee](/usc/42/17061.md?p=2) and Smart Grid [Task Force](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3) for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2020. ## Source credit (Pub. L. 110–140, title XIII, § 1303, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1784; Pub. L. 117–286, § 4(a)(281), Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4336.) ## Notes ### Editorial Notes ### Amendments 2022—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 117–286 substituted “chapter 10 of title 5” for “Federal Advisory Committee Act” in heading and “Chapter 10 of title 5” for “The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.)” in text. ### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries ### Effective Date Section effective on the date that is 1 day after Dec. 19, 2007, see section 1601 of Pub. L. 110–140, set out as a note under section 1824 of Title 2, The Congress.