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42 U.S.C. § 17211 — International geothermal energy development
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**(a) In general** The Secretary of Energy, in coordination with other appropriate Federal and multilateral agencies (including the United States Agency for International Development) shall support collaborative efforts with international partners to promote the research, development, and demonstration of geothermal technologies used to develop hydrothermal and enhanced geothermal system resources.
**(b) United States Trade and Development Agency** The Director of the United States Trade and Development Agency may—
(1) encourage participation by United States firms in actions taken to carry out subsection (a); and
(2) provide grants and other financial support for feasibility and resource assessment studies conducted in, or intended to benefit, less developed countries.
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**(a) In general** The Secretary of Energy, in coordination with other appropriate Federal and multilateral agencies (including the United States Agency for International Development) shall support collaborative efforts with international partners to promote the research, development, and demonstration of geothermal technologies used to develop hydrothermal and enhanced geothermal system resources.
**(b) United States Trade and Development Agency** The Director of the United States Trade and Development Agency may—
(1) encourage participation by United States firms in actions taken to carry out subsection (a); and
(2) provide grants and other financial support for feasibility and resource assessment studies conducted in, or intended to benefit, less developed countries.
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**(a) In general** To the maximum extent practicable, the Architect of the Capitol shall include energy efficiency and conservation measures, greenhouse gas emission reduction measures, and other appropriate environmental measures in the Capitol Complex Master Plan.
**(b) Report** Not later than 6 months after December 19, 2007, the Architect of the Capitol shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, a report on the energy efficiency and conservation measures, greenhouse gas emission reduction measures, and other appropriate environmental measures included in the Capitol Complex Master Plan pursuant to subsection (a).
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**(a) Incentive payments**
(1) For electric energy generated and sold by a qualified renewable energy facility during the incentive period, the Secretary shall make, subject to the availability of appropriations, incentive payments to the owner or operator of such facility.
(2) The amount of such payment made to any such owner or operator shall be as determined under subsection (e).
(3) Payments under this section may only be made upon receipt by the Secretary of an incentive payment application which establishes that the applicant is eligible to receive such payment.
(4)
(A) Subject to subparagraph (B), if there are insufficient appropriations to make full payments for electric production from all qualified renewable energy facilities for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall assign—
(i) 60 percent of appropriated funds for the fiscal year to facilities that use solar, wind, marine energy (as defined in [section 17211 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section17211&num=0&edition=prelim)), geothermal, or closed-loop (dedicated energy crops) biomass technologies to generate electricity; and
(ii) 40 percent of appropriated funds for the fiscal year to other projects.
(B) After submitting to Congress an explanation of the reasons for the alteration, the Secretary may alter the percentage requirements of subparagraph (A).
**(b) Qualified renewable energy facility** For purposes of this section, a qualified renewable energy facility is a facility which is owned by a not-for-profit electric cooperative, a public utility described in [section 115 of title 26](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section115&num=0&edition=prelim), a State, Commonwealth, territory, or possession of
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**(a) Requirement** The President, acting through the Secretary, shall seek to ensure that, to the extent economically feasible and technically practicable, of the total amount of electric energy the Federal Government consumes during any fiscal year, the following amounts shall be renewable energy:
(1) Not less than 3 percent in fiscal years 2007 through 2009.
(2) Not less than 5 percent in fiscal years 2010 through 2012.
(3) Not less than 7.5 percent in fiscal year 2013 and each fiscal year thereafter.
**(b) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Biomass** — The term “biomass” means any lignin waste material that is segregated from other waste materials and is determined to be nonhazardous by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and any solid, nonhazardous, cellulosic material that is derived from—
(A) any of the following forest-related resources: mill residues, precommercial thinnings, slash, and brush, or nonmerchantable material;
(B) solid wood waste materials, including waste pallets, crates, dunnage, manufacturing and construction wood wastes (other than pressure-treated, chemically-treated, or painted wood wastes), and landscape or right-of-way tree trimmings, but not including municipal solid waste (garbage), gas derived from the biodegradation of solid waste, or paper that is commonly recycled;
(C) agriculture wastes, including orchard tree crops, vineyard, grain, legumes, sugar, and other crop by-products or residues, and livestock waste nutrients; or
(D) a plant that is grown exclusively as a fuel for the production of electricity.
(2) **Renewable energy** — The term “renewable energy” means marine energy (as defined in [section 17211 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-sect
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 17212
(3) to demonstrate and promote commercial
application of technologies related to geo-
thermal energy as part of the project.
(d) Cost sharing
The cost-sharing requirements of section 16352
of this title shall apply to any project carried
out under this section.
(e) Authorization of appropriations
Out of funds authorized under section 17202 of
this title, there is authorized to be appropriated
to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of fis-
cal years 2021 through 2025.
(Pub. L. 110–140, title VI, § 625, Dec. 19, 2007, 121
Stat. 1685; Pub. L. 116–260, div. Z, title III,
§ 3002(l), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2496.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2020—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 116–260, § 3002(l)(1), in-
serted ‘‘or heat’’ after ‘‘electrical power’’.
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 116–260, § 3002(l)(2), amended sub-
sec. (e) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as fol-
lows: ‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated such
sums as are necessary to carry out this section.’’
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE
Section effective on the date that is 1 day after Dec.
19, 2007, see section 1601 of Pub. L. 110–140, set out as a
note under section 1824 of Title 2, The Congress.
PART C—WATER POWER RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Subtitle C of title VI of the Energy Independence and
Security Act of 2007, known as the Marine and
Hydrokinetic Renewable Energy Research and Develop-
ment Act, comprising this part, was originally enacted
by Pub. L. 110–140, title VI, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1686.
Such part is shown herein, however, as having been
added by Pub. L. 116–260, div. Z, title III, § 3001(a), Dec.
27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2479, because of the extensive revision
of the
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