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42 USC § 8422 - Compliance report 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s8422"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "42 USC § 8422 - Compliance report"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "8422"
section_name: "Compliance report"
chapter_number: 92
chapter_name: "POWERPLANT AND INDUSTRIAL FUEL USE"
subchapter_number: "VII"
subchapter_name: "ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT"
part_number: "B"
part_name: "Information and Reporting"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 95–620, title VII, § 712, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3332; Pub. L. 97–35, title X, § 1023(b), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 617.)"
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# § 8422. Compliance report

**(a)** **Generally** Any person owning, operating, or proposing to operate one or more existing electric powerplants required to come into compliance with the prohibitions of this chapter shall on or before January 1, 1980, and annually thereafter, submit to the Secretary a report identifying all such existing electric powerplants owned or operated by such person. Such report shall—

**(1)** set forth the anticipated schedule for compliance with the applicable requirements and prohibitions by each such electric powerplant;

**(2)** indicate proposed or existing contracts or other commitments or good faith negotiations for such contracts or commitments for coal or another alternate fuel, equipment, or combinations thereof, which would enable such powerplant to comply with such prohibitions; and

**(3)** identify those electric powerplants, if any, for which application for temporary or permanent exemption from the prohibitions of this chapter may be filed.

**(b)** **Report on implementation of section 8484 plan** section 8484 of this title

Any electric utility required to submit a conservation plan under  shall annually submit to the Secretary a report identifying the steps taken during the preceding year to implement such plan.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 95–620, title VII, § 712, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3332; Pub. L. 97–35, title X, § 1023(b), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 617.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this Act”, meaning , , , known as the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under  and Tables.

### Amendments

1981— designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1981 Amendment

Amendment by  effective , see , set out as a note under .