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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1453
To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to require reporting
regarding clean energy demonstration projects, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY21, 2025
Mr. C
AREY(for himself and Mr. RILEYof New York) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
A BILL
To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to
require reporting regarding clean energy demonstration
projects, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clean Energy Dem-4
onstration Transparency Act of 2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT REPORT-6
ING REQUIREMENTS. 7
Subsection (h) of section 41201 of the Infrastructure 8
Investment and Jobs Act (42 U.S.C. 18861) is amended 9
by adding at the end following new paragraph: 10
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‘‘(3) FURTHER REPORTS.— 1
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than six 2
months after the date of the enactment of this 3
paragraph and at least semiannually thereafter, 4
the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on 5
Science, Space, and Technology and the Com-6
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-7
resentatives and the Committee on Energy and 8
Natural Resources and the Committee on Ap-9
propriations of the Senate a report, and make 10
publicly available in digital online format, that 11
contains, for the period covered by each such 12
report, for each covered project or other dem-13
onstration project administered or supported by 14
the program, the following: 15
‘‘(i) A copy of any initial contracts or 16
financial assistance agreements executed 17
between the Department and an award re-18
cipient, including any related documenta-19
tion, as the Secretary determines appro-20
priate. 21
‘‘(ii) A list of any material, technical, 22
or financial milestones that have or have 23
not been met. 24
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‘‘(iii) Any material modifications to 1
the scope, schedule, funding profile (in-2
cluding cost-share requirements), project 3
partners or participating entities, or budg-4
et of the project. 5
‘‘(B) S
TREAMLINING.—To the extent prac-6
ticable, the Secretary may synchronize the re-7
ports required under subparagraph (A) with 8
other required reports, such as those required 9
under— 10
‘‘(i) paragraph (1); and 11
‘‘(ii) section 9005(e) of the Energy 12
Act of 2020 (42 U.S.C. 7256c(e); enacted 13
as division Z of the Consolidated Appro-14
priations Act, 2021).’’. 15
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