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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 752 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To provide for methane emission detection and mitigation, and for other |
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| 6 | 6 | | purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY28, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. C |
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| 10 | 10 | | ASTENintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 11 | 11 | | Committee on Science, Space, and Technology |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To provide for methane emission detection and mitigation, |
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| 14 | 14 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Methane Emissions 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Mitigation Research and Development Act’’. 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SEC. 2. METHANE EMISSION DETECTION AND MITIGATION. 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | (a) I |
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| 22 | 22 | | NGENERAL.—Subtitle F of title IX of the En-7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | ergy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16291 et seq.) is 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | amended by adding at the end the following new section: 9 |
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| 28 | 28 | | ‘‘SEC. 969E. METHANE LEAK DETECTION AND MITIGATION. 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | ‘‘(a) T |
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| 30 | 30 | | ECHNICALASSISTANCE.— 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 32 | 32 | | N GENERAL.—The Secretary, in consulta-3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | tion with the Administrator of the Environmental 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | Protection Agency, the Secretary of Commerce, and 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | shall carry out a program of methane emissions de-7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | tection and mitigation research, development, and 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | demonstration for technologies and methods that 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | significantly detect, quantify, and mitigate methane 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | emissions. In carrying out the program, the Sec-11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | retary shall— 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ‘‘(A) enter into cooperative agreements 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | with State or local governments, institutions of 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | higher education, or for-profit entities to pro-15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | vide technical assistance to— 16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(i) prevent or respond to methane re-17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | leases, including prediction, detection, miti-18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | gation, quantification, and identification of 19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | leaks, vents, and other outflows throughout 20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | the natural gas infrastructure (including 21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | natural gas storage, pipelines, and natural 22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | gas production sites); and 23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | ‘‘(ii) protect public health in the event 24 |
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| 54 | 54 | | of a major methane release; 25 |
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| 58 | 58 | | ‘‘(B) in coordination with representatives 1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | from private sector entities, State and local gov-2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | ernments, and institutions of higher education, 3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | establish a publicly accessible resource for best 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | practices in the design, construction, mainte-5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | nance, performance, monitoring, and incident 6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | response for— 7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ‘‘(i) pipeline systems, including com-8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | pressor stations; 9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ‘‘(ii) production wells; 10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ‘‘(iii) storage facilities; and 11 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ‘‘(iv) other vulnerable infrastructure; 12 |
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| 70 | 70 | | ‘‘(C) in coordination with representatives 13 |
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| 71 | 71 | | from private sector entities, State and local gov-14 |
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| 72 | 72 | | ernments, and institutions of higher education, 15 |
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| 73 | 73 | | establish a publicly accessible resource for best 16 |
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| 74 | 74 | | practices in evaluation and incorporation of 17 |
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| 75 | 75 | | emission reduction technologies, including— 18 |
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| 76 | 76 | | ‘‘(i) metrics for performance evalua-19 |
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| 77 | 77 | | tion; and 20 |
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| 78 | 78 | | ‘‘(ii) principles for selection and inte-21 |
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| 79 | 79 | | gration of emission reduction technologies 22 |
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| 80 | 80 | | that are best suited for the project or enti-23 |
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| 81 | 81 | | ty concerned; 24 |
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| 85 | 85 | | ‘‘(D) support research of technologies to 1 |
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| 86 | 86 | | more accurately quantify emissions, including— 2 |
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| 87 | 87 | | ‘‘(i) the ability to accurately charac-3 |
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| 88 | 88 | | terize and measure methane emissions 4 |
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| 89 | 89 | | through various atmospheric conditions 5 |
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| 90 | 90 | | such as wind, rain, fog, and dust; 6 |
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| 91 | 91 | | ‘‘(ii) improvements to data analytics 7 |
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| 92 | 92 | | and machine learning platforms; 8 |
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| 93 | 93 | | ‘‘(iii) the ability to characterize tem-9 |
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| 94 | 94 | | poral patterns in emissions, such as 10 |
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| 95 | 95 | | through continuous monitoring or multi-11 |
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| 96 | 96 | | tiered system practices; 12 |
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| 97 | 97 | | ‘‘(iv) improvements to high-resolution 13 |
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| 98 | 98 | | spectroscopic databases of methane; 14 |
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| 99 | 99 | | ‘‘(v) the ability to remotely detect car-15 |
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| 100 | 100 | | bon and ethane isotopes to facilitate attri-16 |
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| 101 | 101 | | bution of sources of methane emissions; 17 |
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| 102 | 102 | | and 18 |
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| 103 | 103 | | ‘‘(vi) improvements to Lidar detection 19 |
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| 104 | 104 | | technologies; 20 |
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| 105 | 105 | | ‘‘(E) identify high-risk characteristics of 21 |
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| 106 | 106 | | pipelines, wells, storage facilities, and materials, 22 |
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| 107 | 107 | | geologic risk factors, or other key factors that 23 |
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| 108 | 108 | | increase the likelihood or intensity of methane 24 |
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| 109 | 109 | | emissions leaks; 25 |
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| 113 | 113 | | ‘‘(F) identify methane mitigation methods 1 |
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| 114 | 114 | | and technologies in coal mines; and 2 |
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| 115 | 115 | | ‘‘(G) in collaboration with private sector 3 |
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| 116 | 116 | | entities and institutions of higher education, 4 |
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| 117 | 117 | | quantify and map significant geologic methane 5 |
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| 118 | 118 | | seeps and other sources of natural emissions 6 |
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| 119 | 119 | | across the United States. 7 |
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| 120 | 120 | | ‘‘(2) C |
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| 121 | 121 | | ONSIDERATIONS.—In carrying out the 8 |
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| 122 | 122 | | program under this section, the Secretary shall con-9 |
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| 123 | 123 | | sider the following: 10 |
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| 124 | 124 | | ‘‘(A) Historical data of methane emissions. 11 |
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| 125 | 125 | | ‘‘(B) Public health consequences. 12 |
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| 126 | 126 | | ‘‘(C) Public safety. 13 |
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| 127 | 127 | | ‘‘(D) Novel materials and designs for pipe-14 |
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| 128 | 128 | | lines, compressor stations, components, and 15 |
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| 129 | 129 | | wells (including casing, cement, and wellhead). 16 |
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| 130 | 130 | | ‘‘(E) Regional geologic traits. 17 |
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| 131 | 131 | | ‘‘(F) Induced and natural seismicity. 18 |
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| 132 | 132 | | ‘‘(b) M |
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| 133 | 133 | | ETHANELEAKDETECTIONCONSORTIUM.— 19 |
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| 134 | 134 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 135 | 135 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 20 |
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| 136 | 136 | | the date of the enactment of this section, the Sec-21 |
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| 137 | 137 | | retary shall establish and operate a Methane Emis-22 |
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| 138 | 138 | | sions Measurement and Mitigation Research Consor-23 |
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| 139 | 139 | | tium (in this section referred to as the ‘Consortium’) 24 |
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| 140 | 140 | | for the purpose of supporting, to the maximum ex-25 |
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| 144 | 144 | | tent practicable, data sharing, research 1 |
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| 145 | 145 | | prioritization, and researching cooperative leak de-2 |
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| 146 | 146 | | tection and repair strategies pertaining to methane 3 |
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| 147 | 147 | | emissions detection, quantification, and mitigation. 4 |
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| 148 | 148 | | ‘‘(2) M |
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| 149 | 149 | | EMBERSHIP.—The members of the Con-5 |
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| 150 | 150 | | sortium shall be representatives from the National 6 |
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| 151 | 151 | | Institute of Standards and Technology, other rel-7 |
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| 152 | 152 | | evant Federal agencies, National Laboratories, oil 8 |
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| 153 | 153 | | and gas operators and industry groups, vendors of 9 |
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| 154 | 154 | | methane detection and quantification technologies, 10 |
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| 155 | 155 | | institutions of higher education, community organi-11 |
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| 156 | 156 | | zations, relevant nongovernmental organizations, and 12 |
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| 157 | 157 | | other entities. 13 |
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| 158 | 158 | | ‘‘(3) R |
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| 159 | 159 | | ESPONSIBILITIES.—The Consortium shall 14 |
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| 160 | 160 | | develop and implement a multiyear plan that— 15 |
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| 161 | 161 | | ‘‘(A) identifies technical goals and mile-16 |
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| 162 | 162 | | stones for the Consortium; and 17 |
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| 163 | 163 | | ‘‘(B) facilitates data sharing for the pur-18 |
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| 164 | 164 | | poses of— 19 |
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| 165 | 165 | | ‘‘(i) bettering the understanding of 20 |
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| 166 | 166 | | methane emissions from the oil and gas 21 |
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| 167 | 167 | | sector; 22 |
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| 168 | 168 | | ‘‘(ii) improving emissions detection, 23 |
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| 169 | 169 | | measurement, and mitigation capabilities, 24 |
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| 173 | 173 | | including assessing multi-tiered atmos-1 |
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| 174 | 174 | | pheric measurements; and 2 |
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| 175 | 175 | | ‘‘(iii) improving the understanding of 3 |
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| 176 | 176 | | methane quantification data analytics and 4 |
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| 177 | 177 | | machine learning platforms, including for 5 |
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| 178 | 178 | | calibration of measurements. 6 |
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| 179 | 179 | | ‘‘(4) R |
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| 180 | 180 | | EPORTING.— 7 |
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| 181 | 181 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 182 | 182 | | N GENERAL.—The Secretary shall 8 |
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| 183 | 183 | | report on the Consortium’s activities to the ap-9 |
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| 184 | 184 | | propriate congressional committees. 10 |
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| 185 | 185 | | ‘‘(B) I |
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| 186 | 186 | | NITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 18 11 |
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| 187 | 187 | | months after the date of the enactment of this 12 |
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| 188 | 188 | | section, the Secretary shall submit to the appro-13 |
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| 189 | 189 | | priate congressional committees a report sum-14 |
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| 190 | 190 | | marizing the activities, findings, and progress 15 |
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| 191 | 191 | | of the program under this section. The report 16 |
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| 192 | 192 | | shall include the following: 17 |
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| 193 | 193 | | ‘‘(i) A review of LDAR technologies 18 |
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| 194 | 194 | | available to the oil and gas sector for the 19 |
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| 195 | 195 | | purpose of methane emissions measure-20 |
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| 196 | 196 | | ment and mitigation. 21 |
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| 197 | 197 | | ‘‘(ii) A summary of research gaps and 22 |
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| 198 | 198 | | priorities related to methane emissions de-23 |
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| 199 | 199 | | tection, measurement, and mitigation capa-24 |
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| 200 | 200 | | bilities. 25 |
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| 204 | 204 | | ‘‘(iii) A description of the data shar-1 |
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| 205 | 205 | | ing and cooperative activities that have 2 |
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| 206 | 206 | | been initiated pursuant to paragraph 3 |
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| 207 | 207 | | (3)(B). 4 |
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| 208 | 208 | | ‘‘(C) A |
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| 209 | 209 | | NNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 1 5 |
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| 210 | 210 | | year after the date on which the report under 6 |
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| 211 | 211 | | subparagraph (B) is submitted and annually 7 |
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| 212 | 212 | | thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the ap-8 |
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| 213 | 213 | | propriate congressional committees a report 9 |
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| 214 | 214 | | summarizing the activities, findings, and 10 |
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| 215 | 215 | | progress of the program under this section. The 11 |
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| 216 | 216 | | report shall include the following: 12 |
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| 217 | 217 | | ‘‘(i) An updated review of LDAR 13 |
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| 218 | 218 | | technologies available to oil and gas opera-14 |
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| 219 | 219 | | tors for the purpose of methane emissions 15 |
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| 220 | 220 | | measurement and mitigation. 16 |
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| 221 | 221 | | ‘‘(ii) A description of the state of 17 |
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| 222 | 222 | | methane emissions detection and measure-18 |
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| 223 | 223 | | ment capabilities. 19 |
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| 224 | 224 | | ‘‘(iii) A summary of research prior-20 |
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| 225 | 225 | | ities relating to methane emissions detec-21 |
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| 226 | 226 | | tion, measurement, and mitigation. 22 |
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| 227 | 227 | | ‘‘(iv) An update on the data sharing 23 |
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| 228 | 228 | | and cooperative activities undertaken by 24 |
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| 229 | 229 | | members of the Consortium. 25 |
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| 233 | 233 | | ‘‘(5) SUNSET; TERMINATION.— 1 |
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| 234 | 234 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 235 | 235 | | N GENERAL.—The Secretary may 2 |
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| 236 | 236 | | provide support to the Consortium for a period 3 |
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| 237 | 237 | | of not more than ten years, subject to the avail-4 |
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| 238 | 238 | | ability of appropriations. 5 |
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| 239 | 239 | | ‘‘(B) M |
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| 240 | 240 | | ERIT REVIEW.—Not later than 5 6 |
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| 241 | 241 | | years after the date on which the Consortium is 7 |
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| 242 | 242 | | established, the Secretary shall conduct a re-8 |
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| 243 | 243 | | view to determine whether the Consortium has 9 |
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| 244 | 244 | | achieved the technical goals and milestones 10 |
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| 245 | 245 | | identified under paragraph (3)(A). 11 |
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| 246 | 246 | | ‘‘(6) D |
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| 247 | 247 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 12 |
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| 248 | 248 | | ‘‘(A) A |
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| 249 | 249 | | PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COM -13 |
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| 250 | 250 | | MITTEES.—The term ‘appropriate congressional 14 |
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| 251 | 251 | | committees’ means the Committee on Science, 15 |
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| 252 | 252 | | Space, and Technology of the House of Rep-16 |
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| 253 | 253 | | resentatives and the Committee on Energy and 17 |
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| 254 | 254 | | Natural Resources of the Senate. 18 |
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| 255 | 255 | | ‘‘(B) LDAR.—The term ‘LDAR’ means a 19 |
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| 256 | 256 | | technology, program, or activity that is intended 20 |
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| 257 | 257 | | to monitor, detect, measure, or repair methane 21 |
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| 258 | 258 | | leaks. 22 |
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| 259 | 259 | | ‘‘(C) S |
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| 260 | 260 | | ECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ 23 |
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| 261 | 261 | | means the Secretary of Energy. 24 |
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| 265 | 265 | | ‘‘(7) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS .— 1 |
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| 266 | 266 | | There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-2 |
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| 267 | 267 | | retary to carry out this section the following: 3 |
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| 268 | 268 | | ‘‘(A) $36,000,000 for fiscal year 2026. 4 |
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| 269 | 269 | | ‘‘(B) $38,000,000 for fiscal year 2027. 5 |
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| 270 | 270 | | ‘‘(C) $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2028. 6 |
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| 271 | 271 | | ‘‘(D) $42,000,000 for fiscal year 2029. 7 |
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| 272 | 272 | | ‘‘(E) $44,000,000 for fiscal year 2030.’’. 8 |
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| 273 | 273 | | (b) C |
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| 274 | 274 | | LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of contents 9 |
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| 275 | 275 | | in section 1(b) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 is amend-10 |
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| 276 | 276 | | ed by adding at the end of the items relating to subtitle 11 |
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| 277 | 277 | | F of title IX of such Act the following new item: 12 |
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| 278 | 278 | | ‘‘Sec. 969E. Methane leak detection and mitigation.’’. |
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| 279 | 279 | | (c) NATIONALFACILITIES FORTESTING ANDINTER-13 |
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| 280 | 280 | | CALIBRATIONPROGRAMRELATING TOMETHANE.— 14 |
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| 281 | 281 | | (1) I |
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| 282 | 282 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 15 |
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| 283 | 283 | | the date of the enactment of this Act and subject to 16 |
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| 284 | 284 | | the availability of appropriations, the Secretary of 17 |
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| 285 | 285 | | Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of En-18 |
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| 286 | 286 | | ergy and the Administrator of the Environmental 19 |
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| 287 | 287 | | Protection Agency, shall establish a program 20 |
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| 288 | 288 | | through the National Institute of Standards and 21 |
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| 289 | 289 | | Technology’s Center for Greenhouse Gas Measure-22 |
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| 290 | 290 | | ments, Standards, and Information established pur-23 |
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| 291 | 291 | | suant to section 10222 of the Research and Develop-24 |
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| 292 | 292 | | ment, Competition, and Innovation Act (Public Law 25 |
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| 296 | 296 | | 117–167; 42 U.S.C. 18932) that establishes national 1 |
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| 297 | 297 | | facilities to advance methane detection, quantifica-2 |
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| 298 | 298 | | tion, and relevant standards and supporting methods 3 |
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| 299 | 299 | | for testing and intercalibration of methane measure-4 |
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| 300 | 300 | | ments and the publication and maintenance of 5 |
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| 301 | 301 | | standards for such measurements. 6 |
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| 302 | 302 | | (2) R |
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| 303 | 303 | | ESPONSIBILITIES.—The facilities estab-7 |
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| 304 | 304 | | lished under paragraph (1) shall facilitate detection 8 |
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| 305 | 305 | | and quantification of carbon, carbon isotopes, meth-9 |
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| 306 | 306 | | ane, ethane, and gases associated with such sources, 10 |
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| 307 | 307 | | provide high-resolution spectroscopic reference data 11 |
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| 308 | 308 | | advancing accuracy of remote sensing technologies, 12 |
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| 309 | 309 | | develop methods relating methane concentration ob-13 |
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| 310 | 310 | | servations to the associated emission fluxes, and fa-14 |
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| 311 | 311 | | cilitate the rapid performance testing of existing and 15 |
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| 312 | 312 | | new technologies for the measurement of methane 16 |
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| 313 | 313 | | emissions, including testing conditions with a wide 17 |
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| 314 | 314 | | range of the following: 18 |
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| 315 | 315 | | (A) Sizes and extents of emission sources. 19 |
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| 316 | 316 | | (B) Geographic diversity. 20 |
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| 317 | 317 | | (C) Temporal characteristics. 21 |
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| 318 | 318 | | (D) Diversity of atmospheric conditions, 22 |
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| 319 | 319 | | such as wind, rain, fog, clouds, and dust. 23 |
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| 320 | 320 | | (E) Diversity of observing platforms. 24 |
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| 324 | 324 | | (F) Quantification of atmospheric emission 1 |
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| 325 | 325 | | plumes. 2 |
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| 326 | 326 | | (3) A |
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| 327 | 327 | | NNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 2 years 3 |
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| 328 | 328 | | after the date of the enactment of this Act and an-4 |
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| 329 | 329 | | nually thereafter, the Secretary of Commerce shall 5 |
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| 330 | 330 | | submit to Congress a report summarizing the activi-6 |
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| 331 | 331 | | ties, findings, and progress of the program estab-7 |
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| 332 | 332 | | lished under paragraph (1). 8 |
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| 333 | 333 | | (4) A |
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| 334 | 334 | | UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS .— 9 |
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| 335 | 335 | | There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-10 |
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| 336 | 336 | | retary of Commerce to carry out this section the fol-11 |
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| 337 | 337 | | lowing: 12 |
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| 338 | 338 | | (A) $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2026. 13 |
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| 339 | 339 | | (B) $17,000,000 for fiscal year 2027. 14 |
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| 340 | 340 | | (C) $19,000,000 for fiscal year 2028. 15 |
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| 341 | 341 | | (D) $21,000,000 for fiscal year 2029. 16 |
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| 342 | 342 | | (E) $23,000,000 for fiscal year 2030 and 17 |
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| 343 | 343 | | each fiscal year thereafter. 18 |
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