---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9120"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9120"
heading: "Monitoring of licensees’ activities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9120"
units:
  - "Chapter 99 — Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion"
  - "Subchapter I — Regulation of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Facilities and Plantships"
---

# §9120. Monitoring of licensees’ activities


Each license shall require the [licensee](/usc/42/9102.md?p=10)—

- (1) to allow the [Administrator](/usc/42/9102.md?p=2) to place appropriate Federal officers or employees in or aboard the [ocean thermal energy conversion facility](/usc/42/9102.md?p=11) or [plantship](/usc/42/9102.md?p=13) to which the license applies, at such times and to such extent as the [Administrator](/usc/42/9102.md?p=2) deems reasonable and necessary to assess compliance with any condition or regulation applicable to the license, and to report to the [Administrator](/usc/42/9102.md?p=2) whenever such officers or employees have reason to believe there is a failure to comply;
- (2) to cooperate with such officers and employees in the performance of monitoring functions; and
- (3) to monitor the environmental effects, if any, of the operation of the [ocean thermal energy conversion facility](/usc/42/9102.md?p=11) or [plantship](/usc/42/9102.md?p=13) in accordance with regulations issued by the [Administrator](/usc/42/9102.md?p=2), and to submit such information as the [Administrator](/usc/42/9102.md?p=2) finds to be necessary and appropriate to assess environmental impacts and to develop and evaluate mitigation methods and possibilities.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–320, title I, § 110, Aug. 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 988; Pub. L. 98–623, title VI, § 602(a)(8), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3411.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1984—Par. (1). Pub. L. 98–623 substituted “in or aboard” for “aboard”.