Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 94 Part 1.djvu/800

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PUBLIC LAW 96-000—MMMM. DD, 1980

94 STAT. 750

42 USC 8216.

42 USC 8235g.

PresTde?t and Congress.

PUBLIC LAW 96-294—JUNE 30, 1980 shall not be required to carry out, with respect to any residential building located in the portion of the utility's service area designated in the contract, the actions required to be contained in such utility's program by subsections (a) and (b) of section 215, if the contract requires such actions (or equivalent actions as determined by the Secretary) to be taken. "(c) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the term 'antitrust laws' means— "(1) the Sherman Act (15 U.S.C. 1 et seq.); "(2) the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 12 et seq.); "(3) the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.); "(4) sections 73 and 74 of the Wilson Tariff Act (15 U.S.C. 8 and 9); and "(5) sections 2, 3, and 4 of the Act entitled 'An Act to amend section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes", approved October 15, 1914, as amended (U.S.C. title 15, sec. 13), and for other purposes' approved June 19, 1936 (15 U.S.C. 21a, 13a, and 13b, commonly known as the Robinson-Patman Antidiscrimination Act). "SEC. 268. RECORDS AND REPORTS.

"(a) RECORDS.—Each State and local government submitting any application for a plan which is approved under section 262(a), and each public utility and person or persons entering into a contract under such a plan, shall keep such records and make such reports as the Secretary may require. The Secretary and the Comptroller General of the United States shall have access, at reasonable times and under reasonable conditions, to any books, documents, papers, records, and reports of each such State and local government, utility, and person or persons which the Secretary determines, in consultation with the Comptroller General of the United States, are pertinent to this part. "^^ REPORTS.—The Secretary shall make an annual report to the President on the activities carried out under this part which shall be submitted to the Congress with the annual report on the activities of the Department of Energy required by section 657 of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7267) and which shall contain— "(1) an estimate of the total amount of energy saved as a result of the activities carried out under this part; "(2) an estimate of the annual savings in energy anticipated as a result of each prototype residential energy efficiency program established under a plan approved under section 262(a); "(3) an analysis, developed in consultation with the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, of the impact on competition of each prototype residential energy efficiency program established under a plan approved under section 262(a); and "(4) if the Secretary determines that it is appropriate, an analysis of the impact of expanding the approval of plans under section 262(a) to establish protot3T)e residential energy efficiency programs, and the provision of financial assistance to such programs, on a national basis and an assessment of the alternative methods by which such an expansion could be accomplished.