---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9206"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9206"
heading: "Wind resource assessment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9206"
units:
  - "Chapter 100 — Wind Energy Systems"
---

# §9206. Wind resource assessment


The [Secretary](/usc/42/9202.md?p=7) shall initiate a three-year national wind resource assessment program. As part of such program, the [Secretary](/usc/42/9202.md?p=7) shall—

- (1) conduct activities to validate existing assessments of [known wind resources](/usc/42/9202.md?p=5);
- (2) perform wind resource assessments in regions of the United States where the use of wind energy may prove feasible;
- (3) initiate a general site prospecting program;
- (4) establish standard wind data collection and siting techniques; and
- (5) establish, 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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), a national wind data center which shall make public information available on the known wind energy resources of various regions throughout the United States.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–345, § 7, Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1143.)