2019 US Code
Title 42 - The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 96 - Biomass Energy and Alcohol Fuels
Subchapter II - Municipal Waste Biomass Energy
Sec. 8832 - Construction loans
| 42 U.S.C. § 8832 (2019) |
| §8832. Construction loans |
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(a) Authority of Secretary of Energy
Subject to sections 8835 and 8836 of this title, the Secretary of Energy may commit to make, and make, loans for the construction of municipal waste energy projects. (b) Estimated project construction costs as determinative of initial and revised amount of loan; interest rate(1) Any loan under this section— (A) may not exceed 80 per centum of the total estimated cost of the construction of the municipal waste energy project involved, and (B) shall bear interest at a rate determined by the Secretary of Energy (taking into consideration the current average market yield on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States with remaining periods to maturity comparable to the average maturities of such loans) plus not to exceed one per centum, as determined by the Secretary of Energy, and adjusted to the nearest one-eighth of one per centum. (2) In the event the total estimated costs of construction of the project thereafter exceed the total estimated costs initially determined by the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary may in addition, upon application therefor, make a loan for so much of the additional estimated costs as does not exceed 10 per centum of the initial total estimated costs of construction. (c) PreconditionsA loan may not be made under this section unless the person applying for such loan has established to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Energy that the applicant is unable without such a loan to obtain sufficient credit elsewhere at reasonable rates and terms, taking into consideration prevailing market rates and terms for loans for similar periods of time, to finance the construction of the project for which such loan is sought. |
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(Pub. L. 96–294, title II, §232, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 697.) |
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| Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 96 - BIOMASS ENERGY AND ALCOHOL FUELS SUBCHAPTER II - MUNICIPAL WASTE BIOMASS ENERGY Sec. 8832 - Construction loans |
| section 8832 |
| 2019 |
| January 24, 2020 |
| No |
| standard |
| 94 Stat. 697 |
| Public Law 96-294 |
