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 100 STAT. 940

Public information.

Utilities.

42 USC 8211.

Utilities.

Fraud. Business and industry.

PUBLIC LAW 99-412—AUG. 28, 1986

technical assistance and relating to the most cost-effective energy conservation procedures and devices (including residential energy conservation measures) and the most successful plans (or portions thereof) under this part. "(B) The Secretary shall make the information described in subparagraph (A) available to the public. "(2) The Secretary shall conduct seminars in various regions of the United States to disseminate information described in paragraph (1).". (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents of such Act is amended by striking out the item relating to section 225 and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Sec. 225. Reports and dissemination of information.". (c) REPORT BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL.—(1)

The Comptroller General shall prepare and transmit to Congress before December 31, 1986, a report evaluating the utility and home heating supplier plans implemented under part 1 of title II of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act. (2) The Secretary of Energy shall conduct a survey in consultation with the Comptroller General to collect the information the Comptroller General determines is necessary for the preparation of such report. (3) The report referred to in paragraph (1) shall examine and assess— (A) the potential for achievable energy savings through installation of residential energy conservation measures in residential dwellings in the United States and the importance of the programs carried out by the Residential Conservation Service of the Department of Energy in achieving these savings; (B) the costs of Residential Conservation Service programs in a representative sample of States, taking into consideration the costs to the taxpayer and ratepayers of affected utilities; (C) the benefits of Residential Conservation Service programs in a representative sample of States, taking into consideration the value of energy conservation and the value of deferral of investment in new capacity to provide energy; (D) efforts of utilities to encourage the implementation of residential energy conservation measures by their customers and the relationship between these efforts and Residential Conservation Service programs; (E) measured energy savings achieved in residential dwellings in which residential energy conservation measures have been installed under such programs; (F) the extent to which utilities have adopted programs voluntarily or under State law that offer more potential for encouraging energy efficiency than do the programs carried out by the Residential Conservation Service; (G) the extent to which modifications in the regulations implementing the programs carried out by the Residential Conservation Service could improve the cost effectiveness of the programs; (H) legislative changes that are necessary to improve the cost effectiveness of residential energy conservation programs; (I) the extent of unfair, deceptive, or anticompetitive acts or practices affecting commerce that relate to the implementation of such residential energy conservation programs, and the ade-

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