---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7374"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7374"
heading: "Energy self-sufficiency initiatives"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7374"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter XII — Renewable Energy Initiatives"
---

# §7374. Energy self-sufficiency initiatives

- (a) **Establishment of 3-year pilot program—** There is hereby established under the direction of the [Secretary](/usc/42/7372.md?p=1) a 3-year pilot energy self-sufficiency program to demonstrate energy self-sufficiency through the use of [renewable energy resources](/usc/42/7372.md?p=2) in one or more [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) in the United States.
- (b) **Establishment of subprograms to pilot programs; scope of subprograms—** As a part of the pilot program, the [Secretary](/usc/42/7372.md?p=1) shall establish such subprograms as the [Secretary](/usc/42/7372.md?p=1) determines are necessary to achieve the purpose of this section, including subprograms—
  - (1) to promote the development and utilization of synergistic combinations of different [renewable energy resources](/usc/42/7372.md?p=2) in specific [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) aimed at reducing fossil fuel importation;
  - (2) to initiate and encourage energy self-sufficiency at appropriate levels of government;
  - (3) to stimulate private industry participation in the realization of the objective stated in [subsection (a)](#a); and
  - (4) to stimulate the utilization of abandoned or underutilized industrial facilities for the generation of energy from any locally available renewable resource, such as municipal solid waste, agricultural waste, or forest products waste.
- (c) **Implementation of subprograms; preparation of plan of program and additional Federal actions—** In carrying out the provisions of this section, the [Secretary](/usc/42/7372.md?p=1) is authorized to assign to an existing office in the Department of Energy the responsibility of undertaking and carrying out the subprograms established under [subsection (b)](#b). In addition, the [Secretary](/usc/42/7372.md?p=1) shall prepare a detailed plan within one hundred eighty days of June 30, 1980, setting forth (1) the 3-year pilot program itself, and (2) any additional Federal actions needed to encourage and promote the adoption of programs for energy self-sufficiency.
- (d) **Submission of plan and implementation report to Congress—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/7372.md?p=1) shall submit to the Congress, within one year after June 30, 1980, the plan prepared under the second sentence of [subsection (c)](#c) along with a report suggesting the legislative initiatives needed to fully implement such plan.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–294, title IV, § 406, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 716.)