---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5513"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5513"
heading: "Priorities and criteria of demonstration programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5513"
units:
  - "Chapter 71 — Solar Energy"
  - "Subchapter I — Heating and Cooling"
---

# §5513. Priorities and criteria of demonstration programs


The [Secretary](/usc/42/5502.md?p=5) shall set priorities as far as possible consistent with the intent and operation of this subchapter in accordance with the following criteria:

- (a) The [residential dwellings](/usc/42/5502.md?p=3) and other buildings which will be part of the demonstration programs referred to in sections [5503](/usc/42/5503.md), [5504](/usc/42/5504.md), and [5507](/usc/42/5507.md) of this title shall be located in a sufficient number of different geographic areas in the United States to assure a realistic and effective demonstration of the [solar heating](/usc/42/5502.md?p=1) systems and [combined solar heating and cooling](/usc/42/5502.md?p=2) systems involved, and of the dwellings and other buildings themselves, in both rural and urban locations and under climatic conditions which vary as much as possible.
- (b) Consideration shall be given to projected costs of commercial production and maintenance of the [solar heating](/usc/42/5502.md?p=1) systems and [combined solar heating and cooling](/usc/42/5502.md?p=2) systems utilized in the demonstration programs.
- (c) Encouragement should be given in the conduct of programs under this subchapter to those [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) in which funds, appropriated by any [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) or political subdivision thereof for the purpose of sharing costs with the Federal Government for the purchase and installation of [solar heating](/usc/42/5502.md?p=1) or [combined solar heating and cooling](/usc/42/5502.md?p=2) components and systems, are committed before or after September 3, 1974.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–409, § 15, Sept. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1077.)