[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 983 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 983

   To require the Secretary of Energy to assign the same priority to 
 providing renewable energy production incentive payments for landfill 
gas facilities as the priority assigned to providing such payments for 
                       other biomass facilities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 2001

  Mrs. Bono introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Energy to assign the same priority to 
 providing renewable energy production incentive payments for landfill 
gas facilities as the priority assigned to providing such payments for 
                       other biomass facilities.

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

SECTION 1. LANDFILL GAS FACILITIES.

    Section 1212(a) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 
13317(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``The 
Secretary shall assign the same priority to payments for landfill gas 
facilities as to payments for closed loop biomass facilities.''.
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