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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 962 

To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to reauthorize and improve the 

carbon capture and storage research, development, and demonstration 

program of the Department of Energy and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 22, 2007 

Mr. BINGAMAN (for himself, Mr. DOMENICI, Mr. TESTER, Mr. BUNNING, Mr. 

SALAZAR, Mr. OBAMA, and Mr. WEBB) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 

A BILL 

To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to reauthorize 

and improve the carbon capture and storage research, 

development, and demonstration program of the Department of Energy and for other purposes. 

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

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Energy 

5 Carbon Capture and Storage Research, Development, and 

6 Demonstration Act of 2007’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE RESEARCH, DE2 VELOPMENT, AND DEMONSTRATION PRO3 GRAM. 

4 Section 963 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 

5 U.S.C. 16293) is amended— 

6 (1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘RE7 SEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT’’ and inserting 

8 ‘‘AND STORAGE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, 

9 AND DEMONSTRATION’’; 

10 (2) in subsection (a)— 

11 (A) by striking ‘‘research and develop12 ment’’ and inserting ‘‘and storage research, de13 velopment, and demonstration’’; and 

14 (B) by striking ‘‘capture technologies on 

15 combustion-based systems’’ and inserting ‘‘cap16 ture and storage technologies related to energy 

17 systems’’; 

18 (3) in subsection (b)— 

19 (A) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 

20 the end; 

21 (B) in paragraph (4), by striking the pe22 riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

23 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

24 ‘‘(5) to expedite and carry out large-scale test25 ing of carbon sequestration systems in a range of ge26 ological formations that will provide information on 


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1 the cost and feasibility of deployment of sequestra2 tion technologies.’’; and 

3 (4) by striking subsection (c) and inserting the 

4 following: 

5 ‘‘(c) PROGRAMMATIC ACTIVITIES.— 

6 ‘‘(1) ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

7 UNDERLYING CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE

8 TECHNOLOGIES.— 

9 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall 

10 carry out fundamental science and engineering 

11 research (including laboratory-scale experi12 ments, numeric modeling, and simulations) to 

13 develop and document the performance of new 

14 approaches to capture and store carbon dioxide. 

15 ‘‘(B) PROGRAM INTEGRATION.—The Sec16 retary shall ensure that fundamental research 

17 carried out under this paragraph is appro18 priately applied to energy technology develop19 ment activities and the field testing of carbon 

20 sequestration activities, including— 

21 ‘‘(i) development of new or improved 

22 technologies for the capture of carbon diox23 ide; 


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1 ‘‘(ii) modeling and simulation of geo2 logical sequestration field demonstrations; 

3 and 

4 ‘‘(iii) quantitative assessment of risks 

5 relating to specific field sites for testing of 

6 sequestration technologies. 

7 ‘‘(2) FIELD VALIDATION TESTING ACTIVI8 TIES.— 

9 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall 

10 promote, to the maximum extent practicable, 

11 regional carbon sequestration partnerships to 

12 conduct geologic sequestration tests involving 

13 carbon dioxide injection and monitoring, mitiga14 tion, and verification operations in a variety of 

15 candidate geological settings, including— 

16 ‘‘(i) operating oil and gas fields; 

17 ‘‘(ii) depleted oil and gas fields; 

18 ‘‘(iii) unmineable coal seams; 

19 ‘‘(iv) saline formations; and 

20 ‘‘(v) deep geologic systems that may 

21 be used as engineered reservoirs to extract 

22 economical quantities of heat from geo23 thermal resources of low permeability or 

24 porosity. 


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1 ‘‘(B) OBJECTIVES.—The objectives of tests 

2 conducted under this paragraph shall be— 

3 ‘‘(i) to develop and validate geo4 physical tools, analysis, and modeling to 

5 monitor, predict, and verify carbon dioxide 

6 containment; 

7 ‘‘(ii) to validate modeling of geological 

8 formations; 

9 ‘‘(iii) to refine storage capacity esti10 mated for particular geological formations; 

11 ‘‘(iv) to determine the fate of carbon 

12 dioxide concurrent with and following in13 jection into geological formations; 

14 ‘‘(v) to develop and implement best 

15 practices for operations relating to, and 

16 monitoring of, injection and storage of car17 bon dioxide in geologic formations; 

18 ‘‘(vi) to assess and ensure the safety 

19 of operations related to geological storage 

20 of carbon dioxide; and 

21 ‘‘(vii) to allow the Secretary to pro22 mulgate policies, procedures, requirements, 

23 and guidance to ensure that the objectives 

24 of this subparagraph are met in large-scale 

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1 bon capture and storage that are funded 

2 by the Department of Energy. 

3 ‘‘(3) LARGE-SCALE TESTING AND DEPLOY4 MENT.— 

5 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall 

6 conduct not less than 7 initial large-volume se7 questration tests for geological containment of 

8 carbon dioxide (at least 1 of which shall be 

9 international in scope) to validate information 

10 on the cost and feasibility of commercial deploy11 ment of technologies for geological containment 

12 of carbon dioxide. 

13 ‘‘(B) DIVERSITY OF FORMATIONS TO BE

14 STUDIED.—In selecting formations for study 

15 under this paragraph, the Secretary shall con16 sider a variety of geological formations across 

17 the United States, and require characterization 

18 and modeling of candidate formations, as deter19 mined by the Secretary. 

20 ‘‘(4) PREFERENCE IN PROJECT SELECTION

21 FROM MERITORIOUS PROPOSALS.—In making com22 petitive awards under this subsection, subject to the 

23 requirements of section 989, the Secretary shall give 

24 preference to proposals from partnerships among in25 dustrial, academic, and government entities. 


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1 ‘‘(5) COST SHARING.—Activities under this sub2 section shall be considered research and development 

3 activities that are subject to the cost-sharing re4 quirements of section 988(b). 

5 ‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

6 are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this sec7 tion— 

8 ‘‘(1) $90,000,000 for fiscal year 2007; 

9 ‘‘(2) $105,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; and 

10 ‘‘(3) $120,000,000 for fiscal year 2009.’’. 

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