---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 18812"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "18812"
heading: "Leveraging existing agency programs to assist small and medium manufacturers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/18812"
units:
  - "Chapter 162 — Energy Infrastructure"
  - "Subchapter V — Energy Efficiency and Building Infrastructure"
  - "Part C — Smart Manufacturing"
---

# §18812. Leveraging existing agency programs to assist small and medium manufacturers


The [Secretary](/usc/42/18701.md?p=3) shall expand the scope of technologies covered by the [industrial research and assessment centers](/usc/42/18811.md?p=2) of the [Department](/usc/42/18701.md?p=1)—

- (1) to include [smart manufacturing](/usc/42/18811.md?p=7) technologies and [practices](/usc/42/17061.md?p=19); and
- (2) to equip the [directors](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the [industrial research and assessment centers](/usc/42/18811.md?p=2) with the training and tools necessary to provide technical assistance in [smart manufacturing](/usc/42/18811.md?p=7) technologies and [practices](/usc/42/17061.md?p=19), including [energy management systems](/usc/42/18811.md?p=1), to manufacturers.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–58, div. D, title V, § 40532, Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1069.)

## 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.