[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 14484-14485]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            ENCOURAGE CLEAN, RENEWABLE ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, our Nation needs a comprehensive energy 
policy, and this Chamber passed H.R. 4, Securing America's Future 
Energy Act, nearly one year ago. Among its many sensible and necessary 
energy policy provisions, this bill included incentives for the 
production of geothermal energy.
  Nevada is literally the heart, the center, of the geothermal energy 
in the western part of our Nation. Unfortunately most of these valuable 
resources are located far underneath public land, and with over 87 
percent of Nevada's land managed by the Federal Government, Nevada's 
potential to provide clean energy to the West is severely inhibited.
  It is time that we unlock these resources and encourage the 
production of clean and renewable alternative energies. I urge the 
Conference Committee to report a comprehensive energy bill that meets 
our Nation's 21st century needs by actively encouraging the production 
of geothermal and other alternative energies.

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