---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5514"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5514"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5514"
units:
  - "Chapter 71 — Solar Energy"
  - "Subchapter I — Heating and Cooling"
---

# §5514. Regulations


The [Administrator](/usc/42/5502.md?p=4) and the [Secretary](/usc/42/5502.md?p=5) in consultation with the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the [Secretary](/usc/42/5502.md?p=5) of Energy, the [Administrator](/usc/42/5502.md?p=4) of the General Services Administration, the [Secretary](/usc/42/5502.md?p=5) of Defense, and other appropriate officers and [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out this subchapter promptly and efficiently. Each such officer or [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), in consultation with the [Administrator](/usc/42/5502.md?p=4) and the [Secretary](/usc/42/5502.md?p=5), may prescribe such regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out his or its particular functions under this subchapter promptly and efficiently.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–409, § 16, Sept. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1078; 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 the 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.