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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 5997 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the Secretary of Energy to further develop and support the |
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| 6 | 6 | | adoption of a voluntary streamlined permitting and inspection process |
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| 7 | 7 | | for authorities having jurisdiction over the permitting of qualifying dis- |
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| 8 | 8 | | tributed energy systems, and for other purposes. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 10 | 10 | | OCTOBER19, 2023 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Ms. L |
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| 12 | 12 | | EEof Nevada (for herself, Mr. CISCOMANI, and Mr. TONKO) introduced |
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| 13 | 13 | | the following bill |
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| 14 | 14 | | O |
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| 15 | 15 | | CTOBER25, 2023 |
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| 16 | 16 | | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce |
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| 17 | 17 | | A BILL |
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| 18 | 18 | | To require the Secretary of Energy to further develop and |
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| 19 | 19 | | support the adoption of a voluntary streamlined permit- |
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| 20 | 20 | | ting and inspection process for authorities having juris- |
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| 21 | 21 | | diction over the permitting of qualifying distributed en- |
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| 22 | 22 | | ergy systems, and for other purposes. |
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| 23 | 23 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Streamlining Home 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Installation of New Energies Act of 2023’’ or the ‘‘SHINE 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Act of 2023’’. 6 |
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| 31 | 31 | | •HR 5997 IH |
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| 32 | 32 | | SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM TO FACILITATE 1 |
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| 33 | 33 | | VOLUNTARY STREAMLINED PROCESS FOR 2 |
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| 34 | 34 | | LOCAL PERMITTING OF QUALIFYING DIS-3 |
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| 35 | 35 | | TRIBUTED ENERGY SYSTEMS. 4 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (a) D |
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| 37 | 37 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (1) A |
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| 39 | 39 | | UTHORITY HAVING JURISDICTION .—The 6 |
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| 40 | 40 | | term ‘‘authority having jurisdiction’’ means any 7 |
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| 41 | 41 | | State, county, local, or Tribal office or official with 8 |
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| 42 | 42 | | jurisdiction— 9 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (A) to issue permits relating to qualifying 10 |
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| 44 | 44 | | distributed energy systems; 11 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (B) to conduct inspections to enforce the 12 |
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| 46 | 46 | | requirements of a relevant code or standard re-13 |
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| 47 | 47 | | lating to qualifying distributed energy systems; 14 |
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| 48 | 48 | | or 15 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (C) to approve the installation of, or the 16 |
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| 50 | 50 | | equipment and materials used in the installa-17 |
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| 51 | 51 | | tion of, qualifying distributed energy systems. 18 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (2) Q |
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| 53 | 53 | | UALIFYING DISTRIBUTED ENERGY SYS -19 |
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| 54 | 54 | | TEM.—The term ‘‘qualifying distributed energy sys-20 |
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| 55 | 55 | | tem’’ means any equipment or materials installed in, 21 |
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| 56 | 56 | | on, or near a residential building to support onsite 22 |
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| 57 | 57 | | or local energy use, including— 23 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (A) to generate electricity from distributed 24 |
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| 59 | 59 | | renewable energy sources, including from— 25 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (i) solar photovoltaic systems or simi-1 |
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| 64 | 64 | | lar solar energy technologies; and 2 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (ii) wind power systems; 3 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (B) to store and discharge electricity from 4 |
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| 67 | 67 | | batteries with a capacity of at least 2 kilowatt 5 |
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| 68 | 68 | | hours; 6 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (C) to charge a plug-in electric drive vehi-7 |
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| 70 | 70 | | cle at a power rate of at least 2 kilowatts; or 8 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (D) to refuel a hydrogen fuel cell electric 9 |
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| 72 | 72 | | vehicle. 10 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (3) S |
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| 74 | 74 | | ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 11 |
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| 75 | 75 | | the Secretary of Energy. 12 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (b) P |
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| 77 | 77 | | ROGRAM.—Not later than 180 days after the 13 |
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| 78 | 78 | | date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in consulta-14 |
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| 79 | 79 | | tion with trade associations and other entities representing 15 |
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| 80 | 80 | | distributed energy system installers and organizations rep-16 |
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| 81 | 81 | | resenting State, local, and Tribal governments engaged in 17 |
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| 82 | 82 | | permitting, shall carry out a program to further develop, 18 |
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| 83 | 83 | | expand, and support the adoption of a voluntary stream-19 |
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| 84 | 84 | | lined permitting and inspection process for authorities 20 |
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| 85 | 85 | | having jurisdiction to use for the permitting of qualifying 21 |
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| 86 | 86 | | distributed energy systems. 22 |
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| 87 | 87 | | (c) A |
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| 88 | 88 | | CTIVITIES OF THEPROGRAM.—In carrying out 23 |
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| 89 | 89 | | the program established under subsection (b), the Sec-24 |
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| 90 | 90 | | retary shall— 25 |
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| 93 | 93 | | •HR 5997 IH |
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| 94 | 94 | | (1) further develop and expand an exemplary 1 |
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| 95 | 95 | | streamlined permitting process that includes an on-2 |
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| 96 | 96 | | line permitting platform— 3 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (A) for expediting, standardizing, and 4 |
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| 98 | 98 | | streamlining permitting; and 5 |
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| 99 | 99 | | (B) that authorities having jurisdiction 6 |
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| 100 | 100 | | may voluntarily use to receive, review, and ap-7 |
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| 101 | 101 | | prove permit applications relating to qualifying 8 |
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| 102 | 102 | | distributed energy systems; 9 |
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| 103 | 103 | | (2) establish targets for the adoption of a 10 |
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| 104 | 104 | | streamlined, expedited permitting process by au-11 |
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| 105 | 105 | | thorities having jurisdiction; 12 |
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| 106 | 106 | | (3) provide technical assistance and training di-13 |
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| 107 | 107 | | rectly or indirectly to authorities having jurisdiction 14 |
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| 108 | 108 | | on using and adopting the exemplary streamlined 15 |
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| 109 | 109 | | permitting process described in paragraph (1), in-16 |
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| 110 | 110 | | cluding the adoption of any necessary building codes; 17 |
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| 111 | 111 | | (4) develop a voluntary inspection protocol and 18 |
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| 112 | 112 | | related tools to expedite, standardize, and streamline 19 |
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| 113 | 113 | | the inspection of qualifying distributed energy sys-20 |
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| 114 | 114 | | tems, including— 21 |
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| 115 | 115 | | (A) by investigating the potential for using 22 |
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| 116 | 116 | | remote inspections; 23 |
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| 117 | 117 | | (B) by investigating the potential for sam-24 |
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| 118 | 118 | | ple-based inspection for distributed energy sys-25 |
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| 121 | 121 | | •HR 5997 IH |
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| 122 | 122 | | tem installers with a demonstrated track record 1 |
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| 123 | 123 | | of high-quality work; and 2 |
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| 124 | 124 | | (C) by investigating opportunities to inte-3 |
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| 125 | 125 | | grate the voluntary inspection protocol into the 4 |
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| 126 | 126 | | online permitting platform described in para-5 |
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| 127 | 127 | | graph (1) and the platforms of government 6 |
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| 128 | 128 | | software providers; and 7 |
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| 129 | 129 | | (5) take any other action to expedite, stand-8 |
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| 130 | 130 | | ardize, streamline, or improve the process for per-9 |
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| 131 | 131 | | mitting, inspecting, or interconnecting qualifying 10 |
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| 132 | 132 | | distributed energy systems. 11 |
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| 133 | 133 | | (d) S |
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| 134 | 134 | | UPPORTSERVICES.—The Secretary shall— 12 |
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| 135 | 135 | | (1) support the provision of technical assistance 13 |
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| 136 | 136 | | to authorities having jurisdiction, any administrator 14 |
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| 137 | 137 | | of the online permitting platform described in sub-15 |
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| 138 | 138 | | section (c)(1), government software providers, and 16 |
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| 139 | 139 | | any other entity determined appropriate by the Sec-17 |
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| 140 | 140 | | retary in carrying out the activities described in sub-18 |
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| 141 | 141 | | section (c); and 19 |
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| 142 | 142 | | (2) provide such financial assistance as the Sec-20 |
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| 143 | 143 | | retary determines appropriate from any funds appro-21 |
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| 144 | 144 | | priated to carry out this section. 22 |
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| 145 | 145 | | (e) A |
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| 146 | 146 | | UTHORITYHAVINGJURISDICTIONCERTIFI-23 |
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| 147 | 147 | | CATIONPROGRAM.— 24 |
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| 150 | 150 | | •HR 5997 IH |
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| 151 | 151 | | (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may certify 1 |
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| 152 | 152 | | authorities having jurisdiction that implement the 2 |
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| 153 | 153 | | exemplary streamlined permitting process described 3 |
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| 154 | 154 | | in subsection (c)(1). 4 |
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| 155 | 155 | | (2) P |
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| 156 | 156 | | ROCESS.—The Secretary may confer a cer-5 |
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| 157 | 157 | | tification under paragraph (1) through existing pro-6 |
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| 158 | 158 | | grams within the Department of Energy. 7 |
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| 159 | 159 | | (3) P |
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| 160 | 160 | | RIZES.—The Secretary may award prizes 8 |
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| 161 | 161 | | to authorities having jurisdiction, using funds appro-9 |
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| 162 | 162 | | priated to the Secretary to carry out this section, to 10 |
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| 163 | 163 | | encourage authorities having jurisdiction to adopt 11 |
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| 164 | 164 | | the exemplary streamlined permitting process or the 12 |
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| 165 | 165 | | voluntary inspection protocol established under para-13 |
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| 166 | 166 | | graphs (1) and (4) of subsection (c), respectively. 14 |
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| 167 | 167 | | (f) A |
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| 168 | 168 | | UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 15 |
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| 169 | 169 | | authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry 16 |
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| 170 | 170 | | out this section $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 17 |
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| 171 | 171 | | through 2027. 18 |
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