[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4866 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4866

  To encourage solar, wind, waste, and geothermal power production by 
   permanently removing the size limitations contained in the Public 
                Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 1, 1994

Mr. Sharp (for himself and Mr. Moorhead) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To encourage solar, wind, waste, and geothermal power production by 
   permanently removing the size limitations contained in the Public 
                Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Solar, Wind, Waste, and Geothermal 
Power Production Act of 1994''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF SIZE LIMITATIONS UNDER PURPA.

    (a) Amendment to PURPA.--Section 210 of the Public Utility 
Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 is amended in subsection (e)(2) by 
striking ``, or 80 megawatts for a qualifying small power production 
facility using geothermal energy as the primary energy source,''.
    (b) Amendment of Federal Power Act.--Section 3(17)(E) of the 
Federal Power Act is amended by striking the semicolon after 
``geothermal resources'' and all that follows down to the period at the 
end thereof.
    (c) Repeal of Interim Provisions.--The Solar, Wind, Waste, and 
Geothermal Power Production Incentives Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-575; 
16 U.S.C. 796 note) is amended by repealing section 4.
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