[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2088 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2088

      To suspend temporarily the duty on certain capacitor panels 
                specifically designed for wind turbines.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 29, 2009

 Ms. Klobuchar introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
      To suspend temporarily the duty on certain capacitor panels 
                specifically designed for wind turbines.

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

SECTION 1. CERTAIN CAPACITOR PANELS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR WIND 
              TURBINES.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 99 of the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States is amended by inserting in 
numerical sequence the following new heading:


``     9902.01.00      Capacitor panels    Free         No change        No change        On or before 12/  ''.
                        specifically                                                       31/2011.......
                        designed for wind
                        turbine
                        generators in
                        excess of 2 MW;
                        such panels are
                        specifically
                        designed to
                        optimize the
                        power factor of
                        the asynchronous
                        induction
                        generator in a
                        wind turbine. The
                        capacitor panel
                        is managed by the
                        wind turbine
                        generator
                        controller and
                        has dimensions of
                        2350-2450 mm
                        (length) x 350-
                        450 mm (width) x
                        2200-2350 mm
                        (height)
                        (provided for in
                        subheading
                        8537.10.90)......

    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) applies 
to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 
after the 15th day after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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