---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7435"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7435"
heading: "Low emissions electricity program"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7435"
units:
  - "Chapter 85 — Air Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Programs and Activities"
  - "Part A — Air Quality and Emission Limitations"
---

# §7435. Low emissions electricity program

- (a) **Appropriation—** In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until September 30, 2031—
  - (1) $17,000,000 for consumer-related education and partnerships with respect to reductions in [greenhouse gas](#c) emissions that result from domestic electricity generation and use;
  - (2) $17,000,000 for education, technical assistance, and partnerships within low-[income](/usc/42/292s.md?p=c-4) and disadvantaged communities with respect to reductions in [greenhouse gas](#c) emissions that result from domestic electricity generation and use;
  - (3) $17,000,000 for industry-related outreach, technical assistance, and partnerships with respect to reductions in [greenhouse gas](#c) emissions that result from domestic electricity generation and use;
  - (4) $17,000,000 for outreach and technical assistance to, and partnerships with, [State](/usc/42/7602.md?p=d), Tribal, and [local governments](/usc/42/8401a.md) with respect to reductions in [greenhouse gas](#c) emissions that result from domestic electricity generation and use;
  - (5) $1,000,000 to assess, not later than 1 year after August 16, 2022, the reductions in [greenhouse gas](#c) emissions that result from changes in domestic electricity generation and use that are anticipated to occur on an annual basis through fiscal year 2031; and
  - (6) $18,000,000 to ensure that reductions in [greenhouse gas](#c) emissions are achieved through use of the existing authorities of this chapter, incorporating the assessment under [paragraph (5)](#a-5).
- (b) **Administration of funds—** Of the amounts made available under [subsection (a)](#a), the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) shall reserve 2 percent for the administrative costs necessary to carry out activities pursuant to that subsection.
- (c) **Definition of greenhouse gas—** In this section, the term “greenhouse gas” means the [air pollutants](/usc/42/7602.md?p=g) carbon dioxide, hydrofluorocarbons, methane, nitrous oxide, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride.

## Source credit

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title I, § 135, as added Pub. L. 117–169, title VI, § 60107, Aug. 16, 2022, 136 Stat. 2069.)