---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 16196"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "16196"
heading: "Energy Efficiency Science Initiative"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/16196"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter IX — Research and Development"
  - "Part A — Energy Efficiency"
---

# §16196. Energy Efficiency Science Initiative

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall establish an [Energy Efficiency](/usc/42/6291.md?p=5) Science [Initiative](/usc/42/19131.md?p=1) to be managed by the Assistant [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) in the [Department](/usc/42/15801.md?p=1) with responsibility for [energy](/usc/42/6311.md?p=7) conservation under [section 7133(a)(9) of this title](/usc/42/7133.md?p=a-9), in consultation with the [Director](/usc/42/5061.md?p=1) of the [Office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) of Science, for grants to be competitively awarded and subject to peer review for research relating to [energy efficiency](/usc/42/6291.md?p=5).
- (b) **Report—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall submit to Congress, along with the annual budget request of the President submitted to Congress, a report on the activities of the [Energy Efficiency](/usc/42/6291.md?p=5) Science [Initiative](/usc/42/19131.md?p=1), including a description of the process used to award the [funds](/usc/42/12854.md?p=3) and an explanation of how the research relates to [energy efficiency](/usc/42/6291.md?p=5).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title IX, § 916, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 862.)