individual energy efficiency improvement targets

individual energy efficiency improvement targets Sec. 374. (a) Within one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall set an industrial energy efficiency improvement target for each of the 10 most energy-consumptive industries identified under section 373. Each such target— (1) shall be based upon the best available information, (2) shall be established at the level which represents the maximum feasible improvement in energy efficiency which such industry can achieve by January 1, 1980, and (3) shall be published in the Federal Register, together with a statement of the basis and justification for each such target. (b) In determining maximum feasible improvement under subsection (a) and under subsection (c), the Administrator shall consider— (1) the objectives of the program established under section 372, 89 STAT. 937 (2) the technological feasibility and economic practicability of utilizing alternative operating procedures and more energy efficient technologies, (3) any special circumstances or characteristics of the industry for which the target is being set, and (4) any actions planned or implemented by each such industry to reduce consumption by such industry of petroleum products and natural gas. (c) The Administrator may, in order to carry out section 372(1), set an industrial energy efficiency improvement target for any major energy-consuming industry to which subsection (a) does not apply. Each such target— (1) shall be based upon the best available information, (2) shall be established at the level which represents the maximum feasible improvement in energy efficiency which such industry can achieve by January 1, 1980, and (3) shall be published in the Federal Register, together with a statement of the basis and justification for each such target. (d) Any target established under subsection (a) or (c) may be modified at any time if the Administrator— (1) determines that such target cannot reasonably be attained, or could reasonably be made more stringent, and (2) publishes such determination in the Federal Register, together with a statement of the basis and justification for such modification.