42 USC § 5915a - Expiration of initial authorization to construct fossil energy demonstration plants

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title: "42 USC § 5915a - Expiration of initial authorization to construct fossil energy demonstration plants"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
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section_name: "Expiration of initial authorization to construct fossil energy demonstration plants"
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chapter_name: "NONNUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 95–39, title I, § 105, June 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 184.)"
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# § 5915a. Expiration of initial authorization to construct fossil energy demonstration plants

section 5907 of this title

Notwithstanding any other applicable provision of law, the initial authorization in this Act or any other Act heretofore or hereafter enacted to construct, pursuant to , any fossil energy demonstration plant shall expire at the end of the three full fiscal years following the date of enactment of such authorization, unless (1) funds to construct each such plant are appropriated or otherwise provided pursuant to applicable law prior thereto, or (2) such authorization period is extended by specific Act of Congress hereafter enacted.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 95–39, title I, § 105, June 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 184.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is , , . The provisions of this Act relating to an initial authorization for construction pursuant to  are not classified to the Code.

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 which comprises this chapter.