[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 19, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3162]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1675. Ms. COLLINS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to 
establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the 
National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub 
program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, 
science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to 
establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of title V of division B, add the following:

     SEC. 25__. APPROPRIATIONS FOR BETTER ENERGY STORAGE 
                   TECHNOLOGY.

       (a) In General.--In addition to amounts otherwise made 
     available for such purposes, for fiscal year 2022, there is 
     appropriated to the Secretary of Energy to carry out section 
     3201 of the Energy Act of 2020 (Public Law 116-260), out of 
     amounts in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
     $150,000,000, of which--
       (1) $50,000,000 shall be for the Office of Electricity to 
     support competitive grants for long-duration, grid-scale 
     energy storage demonstrations; and
       (2) $100,000,000 shall be for the Office of Energy 
     Efficiency and Renewable Energy to support a wide range of 
     energy storage demonstration projects, including projects 
     relating to bidirectional electrical, thermal, and chemical 
     storage and battery supply chain activities, of which--
       (A) $50,000,000 shall be for the expansion of the 
     partnership between the Advanced Manufacturing Office and the 
     Vehicle Technologies Office to develop a domestic battery 
     supply chain, including critical materials and battery 
     manufacturing and recycling demonstration projects; and
       (B) $35,000,000 shall be for the Water Power Technologies 
     Office to expand the HydroWIRES program to enhance the 
     flexibility of hydropower in the United States and pumped 
     storage hydropower resources, of which $10,000,000 shall be 
     for modular pumped storage hydropower demonstration projects.
       (b) Emergency Designation.--
       (1) In general.--The amounts provided under this section 
     are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
     section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 
     U.S.C. 933(g)).
       (2) Designation in senate.--In the Senate, this section is 
     designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     4112(a) of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent 
     resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
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