---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5507"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5507"
heading: "Arrangements with Federal agencies for development and demonstration of solar heating and combined heating and cooling systems for commercial buildings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5507"
units:
  - "Chapter 71 — Solar Energy"
  - "Subchapter I — Heating and Cooling"
---

# §5507. Arrangements with Federal agencies for development and demonstration of solar heating and combined heating and cooling systems for commercial buildings


The [Administrator](/usc/42/5502.md?p=4), in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/42/5502.md?p=5), the [Secretary](/usc/42/5502.md?p=5) of Energy, the [Administrator](/usc/42/5502.md?p=4) of General Services, and the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and concurrently with the conduct of the programs under sections [5503](/usc/42/5503.md) and [5504](/usc/42/5504.md) of this title, shall enter into arrangements with appropriate Federal [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) to carry out such [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) and activities (including demonstration [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2)) with respect to apartment buildings, office buildings, factories, crop-drying facilities and other agricultural structures, public buildings (including schools and colleges), and other non-residential, commercial, or industrial buildings, taking into account the special needs of and individual differences in such buildings based upon size, function, and other relevant factors, as may be appropriate for the early development and demonstration of [solar heating](/usc/42/5502.md?p=1) and [combined solar heating and cooling](/usc/42/5502.md?p=2) systems suitable and effective for use in such buildings.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–409, § 9, Sept. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1074; Pub. L. 93–438, title I, § 104(f), title III, § 301(h), Oct. 11, 1974, 88 Stat. 1238, 1250; Pub. L. 95–91, title III, § 301(a), title VII, §§ 703, 707, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 577, 606, 607; Pub. L. 100–418, title V, § 5115(c), Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1433.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1988—Pub. L. 100–418 substituted “National Institute of Standards and Technology” for “National Bureau of Standards”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

“Secretary of Energy” substituted in text for “Director”, meaning Director of National Science Foundation, pursuant to sections 104(f) and 301(h) of Pub. L. 93–438, which are classified to sections 5814(f) and 5871(h) of this title and which transferred functions of National Science Foundation relating to or utilized in connection with solar heating and cooling development to Administrator of Energy Research and Development Administration, and pursuant to sections 301(a), 703, and 707 of Pub. L. 95–91, which are classified to sections 7151(a), 7293, and 7297 of this title and which terminated Energy Research and Development Administration and transferred its functions and functions of Administrator thereof (with certain exceptions) to Secretary of Energy.