---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6372h"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6372h"
heading: "Administration; detailed description in annual report"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6372h"
units:
  - "Chapter 77 — Energy Conservation"
  - "Subchapter III — Improving Energy Efficiency"
  - "Part F — Energy Conservation Program for Buildings Owned by Units of Local Government and Public Care Institutions"
---

# §6372h. Administration; detailed description in annual report

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/42/6202.md?p=1) may prescribe such rules as may be necessary in order to carry out the provisions of this part.
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/42/6202.md?p=1) shall include in his annual report a detailed description of the actions taken under this part in the preceding fiscal year and the actions planned to be taken in the subsequent fiscal year. Such description shall show the [allocations](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=2) made (including the [allocations](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=2) made to each [State](/usc/42/6202.md?p=4)) and include information on the [technical assistance](/usc/42/6371.md?p=17) carried out with funds allocated, and an estimate of the [energy](/usc/42/6291.md?p=3) savings, if any, achieved.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–163, title III, § 400I, as added Pub. L. 95–619, title III, § 311(a), Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3253; amended Pub. L. 96–470, title II, § 203(a), Oct. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 2242; Pub. L. 105–388, § 5(a)(13), Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3479.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1998—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105–388 struck out comma after “Secretary shall”.

1980—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96–470 substituted “include in his annual report a detailed description” for “within one year after November 9, 1978, and annually thereafter while funds are available under this part, submit to the Congress a detailed report” and “Such description” for “Such report”.