42 USC § 15824 - State Technologies Advancement Collaborative

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identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s15824"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "42 USC § 15824 - State Technologies Advancement Collaborative"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "15824"
section_name: "State Technologies Advancement Collaborative"
chapter_number: 149
chapter_name: "NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY AND PROGRAMS"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "ENERGY EFFICIENCY"
part_number: "B"
part_name: "Energy Assistance and State Programs"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 109–58, title I, § 127, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 619.)"
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# § 15824. State Technologies Advancement Collaborative

**(a)** **In general** The Secretary, in cooperation with the States, shall establish a cooperative program for research, development, demonstration, and deployment of technologies in which there is a common Federal and State energy efficiency, renewable energy, and fossil energy interest, to be known as the “State Technologies Advancement Collaborative” (referred to in this section as the “Collaborative”).

**(b)** **Duties** The Collaborative shall—

**(1)** leverage Federal and State funding through cost-shared activity;

**(2)** reduce redundancies in Federal and State funding; and

**(3)** create multistate projects to be awarded through a competitive process.

**(c)** **Administration** The Collaborative shall be administered through an agreement between the Department and appropriate State-based organizations.

**(d)** **Funding sources** Funding for the Collaborative may be provided from—

**(1)** amounts specifically appropriated for the Collaborative; or

**(2)** amounts that may be allocated from other appropriations without changing the purpose for which the amounts are appropriated.

**(e)** **Authorization of appropriations** There are authorized to carry out this section such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 109–58, title I, § 127, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 619.)