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108TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1395 

To provide for the establishment of research, development, demonstration, 

and commercial application programs for fuel cell and hydrogen production, delivery, and storage technologies for transportation and stationary 

applications. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 20, 2003 

Mr. LARSON of Connecticut introduced the following bill; which was referred 

to the Committee on Science 

A BILL 

To provide for the establishment of research, development, 

demonstration, and commercial application programs for 

fuel cell and hydrogen production, delivery, and storage 

technologies for transportation and stationary applications. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. CORE FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH 

4 AND DEVELOPMENT FOR TRANSPORTATION 

5 AND STATIONARY POWER GENERATION. 

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish a re7 search, development, demonstration, and commercial ap-
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1 plication program for fuel cell technologies for transpor2 tation and stationary applications with the following goals: 

3 (1) Reducing the production cost of hydrogen 

4 or gasoline fueled vehicle fuel cell power systems (in5 cluding hydrogen storage costs) to $45 per kilowatt 

6 in 2010 at production levels of 500,000 units per 

7 year. 

8 (2) Increasing the electrical efficiency of nat9 ural gas or propane fueled stationary fuel cell sys10 tems to 40 percent in 2010. 

11 (3) Validating solutions to the performance and 

12 vehicle interface issues of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles 

13 to demonstrate an increase in durability in a vehicle 

14 fleet of such fuel cells to 2000 hours by 2008. 

15 (b) ELEMENTS OF PROGRAM.—The program author16 ized under this section shall include elements that focus 

17 on achieving low cost, high-efficiency, fuel flexible, mod18 ular fuel cell power systems, improved manufacturing pro19 duction and processes, high-temperature membranes, cost 

20 effective fuel processing for natural gas, fuel cell stack and 

21 system reliability and durability, and freeze/cold start ca22 pability. 

23 (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

24 are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for car25 rying out this section— 
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1 (1) $78,000,000 for fiscal year 2004; 

2 (2) $80,000,000 for fiscal year 2005; 

3 (3) $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2006; 

4 (4) $110,000,000 for fiscal year 2007; and 

5 (5) $122,000,000 for fiscal year 2008. 

6 SEC. 2. HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGY. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish a re8 search, development, demonstration, and commercial ap9 plication program for hydrogen technologies with the fol10 lowing goals: 

11 (1) Developing and demonstrating distributed 

12 hydrogen generation technology that will reduce the 

13 cost (before taxes) of producing hydrogen from nat14 ural gas, when produced in large quantities, to $1.50 

15 per gallon of gasoline equivalent at fueling stations 

16 in 2010. 

17 (2) Developing and demonstrating hydrogen 

18 production from renewable energy resources at a 

19 cost of $2.60 per kilogram in 2008, using biomass20 based production. 

21 (3) Developing and validating a hydrogen stor22 age technology with— 

23 (A) specific energy of 2.0 kilowatt hours 

24 per kilogram (6 weight percent capacity), and 
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1 energy density of 1.5 kilowatt hours per liter by 

2 2010; and 

3 (B) specific energy of 3.0 kilowatt hours 

4 per kilogram (9 weight percent capacity), and 

5 energy density of 2.7 kilowatt hours per liter by 

6 2015. 

7 (4) Validating a projected cost of $3.00 per gal8 lon gasoline equivalent at fueling stations, using in9 frastructure and vehicle interface technologies, by 

10 2008. 

11 (b) ACTIVITIES.—In carrying out this section, the 

12 Secretary shall— 

13 (1) draft technical specifications for an inter14 national agreement on a global technology regulation 

15 for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and infrastructure; 

16 (2) educate key target audiences, including stu17 dents and teachers, local and State government rep18 resentatives, and large scale end users, on the con19 cept of a hydrogen economy and how it may affect 

20 them; 

21 (3) initiate tests of prototype hydrogen-from22 gas production technologies and award projects for 

23 hydrogen production and capture of associated car24 bon dioxide; 
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1 (4) initiate a hydrogen-from-coal initiative and 

2 identify appropriate institutions to establish the fea3 sibility of emerging alternate coal-based hydrogen 

4 technologies, investigate advanced separation tech5 nologies, and utilize a combination of experimental 

6 and advanced computational methods to determine 

7 optimal reaction chemistries for producing hydrogen8 from-coal-derived fuels; and 

9 (5) initiate a nuclear hydrogen initiative to de10 velop and demonstrate the feasibility of nuclear en11 ergy for the large-scale, emission-free production of 

12 hydrogen. 

13 (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

14 are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for car15 rying out this section— 

16 (1) $104,000,000 for fiscal year 2004; 

17 (2) $120,000,000 for fiscal year 2005; 

18 (3) $140,000,000 for fiscal year 2006; 

19 (4) $160,000,000 for fiscal year 2007; and 

20 (5) $186,000,000 for fiscal year 2008. 

21 SEC. 3. MERIT REVIEW OF PROPOSALS. 

22 Awards of funds authorized under this Act shall be 

23 made only after an impartial review of the scientific and 

24 technical merit of the proposals for such awards has been 

25 carried out by or for the Department of Energy. 
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1 SEC. 4. DEFINITION. 

2 For purposes of this Act, the term ‘‘Secretary’’ 

3 means the Secretary of Energy. 

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