[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1639 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1639

     To amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to 
reauthorize the energy efficiency and conservation block grant program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 13, 2021

  Mr. Merkley introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to 
reauthorize the energy efficiency and conservation block grant program.

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

SECTION 1. REAUTHORIZATION OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CONSERVATION BLOCK 
              GRANT PROGRAM.

    Section 548(a) of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 
(42 U.S.C. 17158(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) by striking ``$2,000,000,000'' and inserting 
                ``$10,000,000,000''; and
                    (B) by striking ``2008 through 2012'' and inserting 
                ``2021 through 2030''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), in the matter preceding subparagraph 
        (A), by striking ``program'' and all that follows through 
        ``2012'' in subparagraph (C) and inserting ``program 
        $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2030''.
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