---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 18777"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "18777"
heading: "Harmonization of efforts and data"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/18777"
units:
  - "Chapter 162 — Energy Infrastructure"
  - "Subchapter IV — Energy Information Administration"
---

# §18777. Harmonization of efforts and data


Not later than 1 year after November 15, 2021, the [Administrator](/usc/42/18771.md?p=1) shall establish a system to harmonize, to the maximum extent practicable and consistent with data integrity—

- (1) the data collection efforts of the [Administrator](/usc/42/18771.md?p=1), including any data collection required under this subchapter, with the data collection efforts of—
  - (A) the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), as the [Administrator](/usc/42/18771.md?p=1) determines to be appropriate;
  - (B) other relevant Federal [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), as the [Administrator](/usc/42/18771.md?p=1) determines to be appropriate; and
  - (C) [State](/usc/42/18791.md?p=3) or regional energy credit registries, as the [Administrator](/usc/42/18771.md?p=1) determines to be appropriate;
- (2) the data collected under this subchapter, including the operating data on electricity generation collected under [section 18772(a) of this title](/usc/42/18772.md?p=a), with data collected by the entities described in subparagraphs [(A)](#1-A) through [(C)](#1-C) of paragraph (1), including any measurements of greenhouse gas and other pollutant emissions collected by the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), as the [Administrator](/usc/42/18771.md?p=1) determines to be appropriate; and
- (3) the efforts of the [Administrator](/usc/42/18771.md?p=1) to identify and report relevant impacts, opportunities, and patterns with respect to energy use, including the identification of community-level economic and environmental impacts required under [section 18773(b)(1)(C) of this title](/usc/42/18773.md?p=b-1-C), with the efforts of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) and other relevant Federal [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), as determined by the [Administrator](/usc/42/18771.md?p=1), to identify similar impacts, opportunities, and patterns.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–58, div. D, title IV, § 40419, Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1047.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Wage Rate Requirements

For provisions relating to rates of wages to be paid to laborers and mechanics on projects for construction, alteration, or repair work funded under div. D or an amendment by div. D of Pub. L. 117–58, including authority of Secretary of Labor, see section 18851 of this title.