[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5301 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5301

   To provide for the establishment by the Secretary of Energy of a 
 program of Federal support for local governments and school districts 
            that establish comprehensive clean energy plans.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 4, 2006

  Mr. Israel introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
        fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for the establishment by the Secretary of Energy of a 
 program of Federal support for local governments and school districts 
            that establish comprehensive clean energy plans.

    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 ``Clean Energy Partnership Act of 
2006''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Energy shall establish a program 
to provide to local governments and school districts that establish 
comprehensive clean energy plans grants in an amount up to 20 percent 
of the costs of implementing clean energy projects funded by the 
comprehensive clean energy plans.
    (b) Preference.--In awarding grants under the program established 
under subsection (a), the Secretary shall give preference to local 
governments and school districts that will be engaging in the full 
range of clean energy projects, and to those who can demonstrate a 
prior commitment to environmental conservation.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Energy 
$10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2007 through 2011 to carry out 
this Act.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act--
            (1) the term ``alternative transportation fuel'' means 
        methanol, denatured ethanol, and other alcohols; mixtures 
        containing 85 percent or more by volume of methanol, denatured 
        ethanol, and other alcohols with gasoline or other fuels; 
        natural gas; liquified petroleum gas; hydrogen; coal-derived 
        liquid fuels; fuels (other than alcohol) derived from 
        biological materials (including neat biodiesel); and 
        electricity (including electricity from solar energy);
            (2) the term ``comprehensive clean energy plan'' means a 
        project-specific plan by a town, municipality, or local 
        government agency, or a school district, to adopt cleaner or 
        more efficient energy technologies in their buildings and 
        vehicle fleets;
            (3) the term ``clean energy project'' means--
                    (A) an energy conservation measure;
                    (B) a project to update or convert municipal or 
                school buildings to generate power from a renewable 
                energy source;
                    (C) a project to replace vehicles owned by the 
                local government or school district with hybrid 
                vehicles or vehicles that run on alternative 
                transportation fuel; and
                    (D) a clean energy infrastructure project;
            (4) the term ``energy conservation measure'' means a 
        measure that is applied to an existing municipal or school 
        building that improves energy efficiency and is life cycle cost 
        effective and that involves energy conservation, cogeneration 
        facilities, renewable energy sources, improvements in operation 
        and maintenance efficiencies, or retrofit activities; and
            (5) the term ``renewable energy source'' means solar heat, 
        solar light, wind, geothermal energy, and biomass, except for--
                    (A) heat from the burning of municipal solid waste; 
                or
                    (B) heat from a dry steam geothermal reservoir 
                which--
                            (i) has no mobile liquid in its natural 
                        state;
                            (ii) is a fluid composed of at least 95 
                        percent water vapor; and
                            (iii) has an enthalpy for the total 
                        produced fluid greater than or equal to 2.791 
                        megajoules per kilogram (1200 British thermal 
                        units per pound).
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