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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

92 STAT. 3282

42 USC 8278.

PUBLIC LAW 95-619—NOV. 9, 1978 persons to the extent necessary to assure that the membership of the committee will be fairly balanced in terms of the point of view represented and the functions to be performed by the committee. (c) TERMINATION.—The advisory committee shall terminate October 1, 1981. SEC. 569. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. For the purposes of this part, there is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary not to exceed $98,000,000 for the period beginning October 1, 1978, and ending September 30, 1981.

TITLE VI—ADDITIONAL ENERGYRELATED MEASURES PART 1—INDUSTRIAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY REPORTING SEC. 601. INDUSTRIAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY REPORTING. (a) IDENTIFICATION or MAJOR ENERGY CONSUMERS.—Section 373 of

the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6343) is amended— (1) in the first sentence by inserting " (a) " before "Within"; (2) by striking out the second sentence thereof; and (3) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(b) Within 90 days after the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall identify each corporation which consumes at least one trillion British thermal units of energy per year and which is within a major energy-consuming industry identified under subsection (a).". (b) REPORTS.—Section 375 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 6345) is amended to read as follows: "REPORTS

42 USC 6345.

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"SEC. 375. (a) The chief executive officer (or individual designated by such officer) of each corporation which is identified by the Secretary pursuant to section 373 shall report to the Secretary on an annual basis (as determined by the Secretary) on the progress such corporation has made in improving its energy efficiency. Such report shall contain such information as the Secretary determines is necessary to measure progress toward meeting the energy efficiency improvement target set for the industry of which such corporation is a part, except that the Secretary shall not require such report if such corporation is in an industry which has an adequate voluntary reporting program (as defined by section 376(g)). "(b) Each report to the Secretary under subsection (a) shall include data aggregated to SIC codes from plant reporting forms in a manner to be determined by the Secretary. "(c) Each plant shall periodically file a plant reporting form with its corporation at the corporation's headquarters within the United States. Each plant reporting form will be retained by the plant's corporation at its headquarters for at least 5 years. Such forms will be made available to the Secretary for verification purposes upon request, but information from forms made so available shall not be released to the public.