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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

92 STAT. 3212

PUBLIC LAW 95-619—NOV. 9, 1978 (A) standards which the Secretary determines necessary for general safety and effectiveness of any residential energy conservation measure; (B) standards which the Secretary determines necessary for installation of any residential energy conservation measure; (C) standards for the procedures concerning fair and reao sonable prices and rates of interest required under section 213(a)(4); (D) standards, developed in consultation with the Federal Trade Commission, concerning unfair, deceptive, or anticompetitive acts or practices, for the measures required under section 213(b); (E) standards which (i) require the lists referred to in section 213(a)(2) (concerning lists of suppliers and contractors) and 213(a)(3) (concerning lists of lending institutions) to be prepared in a fair, open, and nondiscriminatory manner and (ii) provide for the removal, in appropriate ca£6s, of suppliers, contractors, or lending institutions from such lists; and (F) standards which assure that any person who alleges any injury resulting from a violation of the requirements of the standards under subparagraph (E) shall be entitled to redress under procedures established by the Governor (or the Secretary in any case in which section 219, relating to Federal standby authority applies); and (3) may include such other requirements as the Secretary may determine to be necessary to carry out this part.

(c) PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION AND APPROVAL or STATE RESIDENTIAL ENERGY CONSERVATION PLANS.—(1)(A) Not later than 180 days after

Extension.

Amended plan.

promulgation of rules under subsection (a), the Governor of each State of any State agency specifically authorized to do so under State law, may submit to the Secretary a proposed residential energy conservation plan which meets the requirements of the rules promulgated under subsection (a). Within such 180-day period, each nonregulated utility shall submit a proposed plan, which meets the requirements of the rules promulgated under subsection (a), to the Secretary unless a plan submitted under the preceding sentence for the State in which the nonregulated utility provides utility sendee applies to nonregulated utilities as provided in paragraph (2). The Secretary may, upon request of the Governor or State agency or nonregulated utility, extend, for good cause shown, the time period for submission of a plan. (B) Each such plan shall be reviewed and approved or disapproved by the Secretary not later than 90 days after submission. If the Secretary disapproves a plan, the Governor or State agency or nonregulated utility may submit a new or amended plan not later than 60 days after the date of such disapproval, or such longer period as the Secretary may, for good cause, allow. The Secretary shall review and approve or disapprove any such new or amended plan not later than 90 days after submission. (C) After approval of a plan, a Governor or State agency or nonregulated utility may submit an amended plan and such plan shall be approved or disapproved in the same manner as the original plan. (2) Any plan submitted by a Governor or State agency under paragraph (1) may, in the discretion of the Governor, if he notifies the