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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1453 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to require reporting |
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| 6 | 6 | | regarding clean energy demonstration projects, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY21, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. C |
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| 10 | 10 | | AREY(for himself and Mr. RILEYof New York) introduced the following |
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| 11 | 11 | | bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to |
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| 14 | 14 | | require reporting regarding clean energy demonstration |
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| 15 | 15 | | projects, and for other purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clean Energy Dem-4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | onstration Transparency Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT REPORT-6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | ING REQUIREMENTS. 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | Subsection (h) of section 41201 of the Infrastructure 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Investment and Jobs Act (42 U.S.C. 18861) is amended 9 |
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| 25 | 25 | | by adding at the end following new paragraph: 10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | ‘‘(3) FURTHER REPORTS.— 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 31 | 31 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than six 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | months after the date of the enactment of this 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | paragraph and at least semiannually thereafter, 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | Science, Space, and Technology and the Com-6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | mittee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | resentatives and the Committee on Energy and 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | Natural Resources and the Committee on Ap-9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | propriations of the Senate a report, and make 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | publicly available in digital online format, that 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | contains, for the period covered by each such 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | report, for each covered project or other dem-13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | onstration project administered or supported by 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | the program, the following: 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ‘‘(i) A copy of any initial contracts or 16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | financial assistance agreements executed 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | between the Department and an award re-18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | cipient, including any related documenta-19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | tion, as the Secretary determines appro-20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | priate. 21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ‘‘(ii) A list of any material, technical, 22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | or financial milestones that have or have 23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | not been met. 24 |
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| 57 | 57 | | ‘‘(iii) Any material modifications to 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | the scope, schedule, funding profile (in-2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | cluding cost-share requirements), project 3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | partners or participating entities, or budg-4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | et of the project. 5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | ‘‘(B) S |
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| 63 | 63 | | TREAMLINING.—To the extent prac-6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | ticable, the Secretary may synchronize the re-7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ports required under subparagraph (A) with 8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | other required reports, such as those required 9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | under— 10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ‘‘(i) paragraph (1); and 11 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ‘‘(ii) section 9005(e) of the Energy 12 |
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| 70 | 70 | | Act of 2020 (42 U.S.C. 7256c(e); enacted 13 |
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| 71 | 71 | | as division Z of the Consolidated Appro-14 |
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| 72 | 72 | | priations Act, 2021).’’. 15 |
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