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 PUBLIC LAW 102-486—OCT. 24, 1992 106 STAT. 3071 (A) conduct a competitive solicitation for proposals from private firms and investors for such joint ventures under subsection (a)(2); and (B) provide financial assistance to at least five such joint ventures. (2) The purpose of the joint ventures shall be to design, test, and demonstrate changes to industrial processes that will result in improved energy efficiency and productivity. The joint ventures may also demonstrate other improvements of benefit to such industries so long as demonstration of energy efficiency improvements is the principal objective of the ioint venture. (3) In evaluating proposals for financial assistance and joint ventures under this section, the Secretary shall consider— (A) whether the activities conducted under this section improve the quality and energy efficiency of industries or industrial processes; (B) the regional distribution of the energy-intensive industries and industrial processes; and (C) whether the proposed joint venture project would be located in the region which has the energy-intensive industry and industrial processes that would benent from the project. SEC. 2108. ENERGY EFFICIENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM. 42 USC 13457. (a) PROGRAM DIRECTION. —The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is authorized to continue to carry out a 5-year program to improve the ener^ efficiency and cost effectiveness of pollution prevention technologies and processes, including source reduction and waste minimization technologies and processes. The purposes of this section shall be to— (1) apply a systems approach to minimizing adverse environmental effects of industrial production in the most cost effective and energy efficient manner; and (2) incorporate consideration of the entire materials and energy cycle with the goal of minimizing adverse environmental impacts. (b) IDENTIFICATION OF OPPORTUNITIES. —Within 9 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental IVotection Agency, shall identify opportunities for the demonstration of energy efficient pollution prevention technologies and processes. (c) REPORT. —Within 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to Congress evaluating the opportunities identified under subsection (b). Such report shall include— (1) an assessment of the technologies available to increase productivity and simultaneously reduce the consumption of energy and material resources and the production of wastes; (2) £m assessment of the current use of such technologies by industry in the United States; (3) the status of any such technologies currently being developed, together with projected schedules of their commercial availability; (4) the energy savings resulting from the use of such technologies; (5) the environmental benefits of such technologies; (6) the costs of such technologies;

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