---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9005"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9005"
heading: "Technology application"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9005"
units:
  - "Chapter 98 — Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Research and Development"
---

# §9005. Technology application

- (a) **Technology application and market development plan—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/9008.md?p=3) shall, in consultation with the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Maritime Administration, the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Technical Panel established under [section 9007 of this title](/usc/42/9007.md), prepare a comprehensive technology application and market development plan that will permit realization of the ten-thousand-megawatt national goal by the year 1999. Such plans shall include at a minimum—
  - (1) an assessment of those Government actions required to achieve a two-hundred- to four-hundred-megawatt electrical-commercial demonstration of [ocean thermal energy conversion](/usc/42/9008.md?p=1) systems in time to have industry meet the goal contained in [section 9001(b)(2) of this title](/usc/42/9001.md?p=b-2) including a listing of those financial, property, and patent right packages most likely to lead to early commercial demonstration at minimum cost to the Federal Government;
  - (2) an assessment of further Government actions required to permit expansion of the domestic [ocean thermal energy conversion](/usc/42/9008.md?p=1) industry to meet the goal contained in [section 9001(b)(3) of this title](/usc/42/9001.md?p=b-3);
  - (3) an analysis of further Government actions necessary to aid the industry in minimizing and removing any legal and institutional barriers such as the designation of a lead [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1); and
  - (4) an assessment of the necessary Government actions to assist in eliminating economic uncertainties through financial incentives, such as loan guarantees, price supports, or other inducements.
- (b) **Transmittal of plan to Congress—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/9008.md?p=3) shall transmit such comprehensive technology application and market development plan to the Congress within three years after July 17, 1980, and update the plan on an annual basis thereafter.
- (c) **Respondent proposals—** As part of the competitive procurement initiative for design and [construction](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=7) of the pilot and demonstration [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) authorized in [section 9009(c) of this title](/usc/42/9009.md?p=c), each respondent shall include in its proposal (1) a plan leading to a full-scale, first-of-a-kind facility based on a proposed demonstration system; and (2) the financial and other contributions the respondent will make toward meeting the national goals.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–310, § 6, July 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 944.)