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        <fullName>Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Energy Freedom Bonds Act of 2006 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Energy Freedom Bonds.</p> <p>Requires the proceeds from such bonds to be used exclusively for research, development, or deployment of technologies utilizing solar heat, solar light, wind, geothermal energy, and biomass. </p> <p>Prohibits the use of such proceeds, however, for any technologies utilizing heat from: (1) the burning of municipal solid waste; or (2) a dry steam geothermal reservoir that has no mobile liquid in its natural state, is a fluid composed of at least 95% water vapor; and has an enthalpy for the total produced fluid greater than or equal to 2.791 megajoules per kilogram (1200 British thermal units per pound).</p>]]></text>
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