[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3945 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3945

   To provide for the establishment by the Secretary of Energy of a 
 program of Federal support for local governments and school districts 
                  to implement clean energy projects.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 23, 2007

  Mr. Israel introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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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 
                  to implement clean energy projects.

    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 
2007''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.

    The Secretary of Energy shall establish a program to provide to 
local educational agencies grants in an amount up to 50 percent of the 
costs of implementing clean energy projects.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Energy 
$20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to carry out 
this Act.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act--
            (1) the term ``clean energy project'' means--
                    (A) an energy conservation measure; and
                    (B) a project to update or convert municipal or 
                school buildings to generate power from a renewable 
                energy source;
            (2) the term ``energy conservation measure'' means a 
        measure that is applied to an existing 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;
            (3) the term ``local educational agency'' has the meaning 
        given that term in section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801); and
            (4) 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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