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[Journal of the House of Representatives, 1995]
[Tuesday, May 2, 1995 (60), Para 60.23 Roll No. 307]
[Pages 627-628]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

para.60.23                   [Roll No. 307]

                                AYES--155

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Barcia
     Beilenson
     Bentsen
     Berman
     Bevill
     Bilbray
     Bishop
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boucher
     Browder
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Bryant (TX)
     Chapman
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coleman
     Collins (IL)
     Collins (MI)
     Conyers
     Costello
     Coyne
     Cramer
     de la Garza
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Dellums
     Deutsch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doyle
     Durbin
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fazio
     Fields (LA)
     Filner
     Flake
     Foglietta
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Furse
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Gibbons
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green
     Gutierrez
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hefner
     Hinchey
     Holden
     Hoyer
     Jackson-Lee
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnston
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (MA)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Kleczka
     Klink
     LaFalce
     Lantos
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Maloney
     Manton
     Markey
     Martinez
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McDermott
     McHale
     McKinney
     Meek
     Mfume
     Miller (CA)
     Mineta
     Mink
     Mollohan
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pastor
     Payne (NJ)
     Pelosi
     Pomeroy
     Poshard
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Reynolds
     Richardson
     Rivers
     Rose
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Sawyer
     Schroeder
     Schumer
     Scott
     Serrano
     Skaggs
     Slaughter
     Stokes
     Studds
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Tejeda
     Thornton
     Thurman
     Torres
     Torricelli
     Towns
     Traficant
     Tucker
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Volkmer
     Ward
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Williams
     Wilson
     Woolsey
     Wyden
     Wynn
     Yates

                                NOES--257

     Allard
     Andrews
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker (CA)
     Baker (LA)
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Barrett (WI)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bereuter
     Bilirakis
     Bliley
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brewster
     Brownback
     Bryant (TN)
     Bunn
     Bunning
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Canady
     Cardin
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chenoweth
     Christensen
     Chrysler
     Clinger
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins (GA)
     Combest
     Condit
     Cooley
     Crane
     Crapo
     Cremeans
     Cubin
     Cunningham
     Danner
     Davis
     Deal
     DeLay
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Doolittle
     Dornan
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     English
     Ensign
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fawell
     Fields (TX)
     Flanagan
     Foley
     Forbes
     Fowler
     Fox
     Franks (CT)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frisa
     Funderburk
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Geren
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Greenwood
     Gunderson
     Gutknecht
     Hall (TX)
     Hamilton
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Heineman
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hoke
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inglis
     Istook
     Jacobs
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kim
     King
     Kingston
     Klug
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Largent
     Latham
     Laughlin
     Lazio
     Leach
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Lightfoot
     Lincoln
     Linder
     Livingston
     LoBiondo
     Longley
     Lucas
     Luther
     Manzullo
     Martini
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McDade
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McKeon
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Metcalf
     Meyers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Minge
     Molinari
     Montgomery
     Moorhead
     Morella
     Myers
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Obey
     Orton
     Oxley
     Packard
     Parker
     Paxon
     Payne (VA)
     Peterson (FL)
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Pickett
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce
     Quillen
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Riggs
     Roberts
     Roemer
     Rohrabacher
     Roth
     Roukema
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scarborough
     Schaefer
     Schiff
     Seastrand
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shuster
     Sisisky
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Solomon
     Souder
     Spence
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Stenholm

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     Stockman
     Stump
     Talent
     Tate
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Torkildsen
     Upton
     Visclosky
     Vucanovich
     Waldholtz
     Walker
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     White
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Zeliff
     Zimmer

                             NOT VOTING--22

     Baesler
     Baldacci
     Becerra
     Brown (OH)
     Clay
     Cox
     Gallegly
     Hall (OH)
     Hilliard
     Jefferson
     LaTourette
     Menendez
     Moakley
     Moran
     Rogers
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Saxton
     Stark
     Thompson
     Waters
     Wise
     Wolf
  So the amendment was not agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, assumed the 
Chair.
  When Mr. HANSEN, Chairman, pursuant to House Resolution 136, reported 
the bill back to the House with an amendment adopted by the Committee.
  The previous question having been ordered by said resolution.
  The following amendment, reported from the Committee of the Whole 
House on the state of the Union, was agreed to:

       Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Hydrogen Future Act of 
     1995''.

     SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

       The Congress finds that--
       (1) fossil fuels, the main energy source of the present, 
     have provided this country with tremendous supply but are 
     limited and polluting;
       (2) additional basic research and development are needed to 
     encourage private sector investment in development of new and 
     better energy sources and enabling technologies;
       (3) hydrogen holds tremendous promise as a fuel, because it 
     can be extracted from water and can be burned much more 
     cleanly than conventional fuels;
       (4) hydrogen production efficiency is a major technical 
     barrier to society collectively benefiting from one of the 
     great energy sources of the future;
       (5) an aggressive, results-oriented, multiyear research 
     initiative on efficient hydrogen fuel production and use 
     should continue; and
       (6) the current Federal effort to develop hydrogen as a 
     fuel is inadequate.

     SEC. 3. PURPOSES.

       The purposes of this Act are--
       (1) to provide for a basic research, development, and 
     demonstration program leading to the production, storage, 
     transport, and use of hydrogen for industrial, residential, 
     transportation, and utility applications; and
       (2) to provide for advice from academia and the private 
     sector in the implementation of the Department of Energy 
     hydrogen research, development, and demonstration program to 
     ensure that economic benefits of the program accrue to the 
     United States.

     SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

       For purposes of this Act--
       (1) the term ``demonstration'' means a validation of the 
     technical feasibility of a theory or process;
       (2) the term ``Department'' means the Department of Energy; 
     and
       (3) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Energy.

     SEC. 5. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

       (a) Authorized Activities.--Pursuant to this section, the 
     Spark M. Matsunaga Hydrogen Research, Development, and 
     Demonstration Act of 1990 and the Energy Policy Act of 1992, 
     and in accordance with the purposes of this Act, the 
     Secretary shall provide for a hydrogen energy basic research, 
     development, and demonstration program relating to 
     production, storage, transportation, and use of hydrogen, 
     with the goal of enabling the private sector to demonstrate 
     the technical feasibility of using hydrogen for industrial, 
     residential, transportation, and utility applications. In 
     establishing priorities for Federal funding under this 
     section, the Secretary shall survey private sector hydrogen 
     activities and take steps to ensure that activities under 
     this section do not displace or compete with the privately 
     funded hydrogen activities of United States industry.
       (b) Schedule.--Within 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of the later of this Act or an Act providing 
     appropriations for programs authorized by this Act, the 
     Secretary shall solicit proposals from all interested parties 
     for carrying out the research, development, and demonstration 
     activities authorized under this section. The Secretary may 
     consider a proposal from a contractor who manages and 
     operates a Department facility under contract with the 
     Department, and the contractor may perform the work at that 
     facility or any other facility. Within 180 days after such 
     solicitation, if the Secretary identifies proposals worthy of 
     Federal assistance, financial assistance shall be awarded 
     under this section competitively, using peer review of 
     proposals with appropriate protection of proprietary 
     information. The Secretary shall use appropriations 
     authorized by this Act that are not allocated for such awards 
     to carry out research, development, and demonstration 
     activities in accordance with the purposes of this Act.
       (c) Cost Sharing.--(1) Except as otherwise provided in 
     section 6, for research proposals funded under this Act, the 
     Secretary shall require a commitment from non-Federal sources 
     of at least 25 percent of the cost of the proposed program. 
     The Secretary may reduce or eliminate the non-Federal 
     requirement under this paragraph if the Secretary determines 
     that the research is of such a purely basic or fundamental 
     nature that a non-Federal commitment is not obtainable.
       (2) The Secretary shall require at least 50 percent of the 
     costs directly and specifically related to any development or 
     demonstration project under this Act to be provided from non-
     Federal sources.
       (d) Certifications and Requirements.--Before financial 
     assistance is provided under this section or the Spark M. 
     Matsunaga Hydrogen Research, Development, and Demonstration 
     Act of 1990--
       (1) the Secretary must ensure that providing such financial 
     assistance is consistent with the Agreement on Subsidies and 
     Countervailing Measures as approved in section 101 of the 
     Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3511); and
       (2) industry participants must certify that they have made 
     reasonable efforts to obtain non-Federal funding for the 
     entire cost of the project, and that such non-Federal funding 
     could not be reasonably obtained.
       (e) Duplication of Programs.--The Secretary shall not carry 
     out any activities under this section that unnecessarily 
     duplicate activities carried out elsewhere by the Federal 
     Government or the private sector.

     SEC. 6. HIGHLY INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES.

       Of the amounts made available for carrying out section 5, 
     up to 5 percent shall be used to support basic research on 
     highly innovative energy technologies. Such amounts shall not 
     be subject to the cost sharing requirements in section 5(c).

     SEC. 7. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER.

       The Secretary shall foster the exchange of generic, 
     nonproprietary information and technology, developed pursuant 
     to section 5, among industry, academia, and the Federal 
     Government. The Secretary shall ensure that economic benefits 
     of such exchange of information and technology will accrue to 
     the United States economy.

     SEC. 8. REPORTS TO CONGRESS.

       Within 18 months after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall transmit to 
     the Congress a detailed report on the status and progress of 
     the Department's hydrogen research and development program, 
     with particular emphasis on activities carried out pursuant 
     to section 7 of this Act. Such report shall include an 
     analysis of the effectiveness of such program, to be prepared 
     and submitted by the Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel 
     established under section 108 of the Spark M. Matsunaga 
     Hydrogen Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 
     1990. Such Panel shall also make recommendations for 
     improvements to such program if needed, including 
     recommendations for additional legislation.

     SEC. 9. COORDINATION AND CONSULTATION.

       (a) Coordination With Other Federal Agencies.--The 
     Secretary shall coordinate all hydrogen research and 
     development activities within the Department, and with the 
     activities of other Federal agencies involved in similar 
     research and development, including the Department of 
     Defense, the Department of Transportation, and the National 
     Aeronautics and Space Administration. Further, the Secretary 
     shall pursue opportunities for cooperation with such Federal 
     entities.
       (b) Consultation.--The Secretary shall consult with the 
     Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel established under section 
     108 of the Spark M. Matsunaga Hydrogen Research, Development, 
     and Demonstration Act of 1990 as necessary in carrying out 
     this Act.

     SEC. 10. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       (a) General Auuthorization.--There are authorized to be 
     appropriated, to carry out the purposes of this Act--
       (1) $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1996;
       (2) $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1997; and
       (3) $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1998.
       (b) Related Authorizations.--(1) For each of the fiscal 
     years 1996, 1997, and 1998, the total amount which may be 
     obligated for Energy Supply Research and Development 
     Activities shall not exceed the total amount obligated for 
     such activities in fiscal year 1995.
       (2) Paragraph (1) of this subsection does not authorize the 
     appropriation of any Federal funds.

  The bill, as amended, was ordered to be engrossed and read a third 
time, was read a third time by title.
  The question being put, viva voce,
  Will the House pass said bill?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, announced that 
the yeas had it.
  So the bill was passed.
  A motion to reconsider the vote whereby said bill was passed was, by 
unanimous consent, laid on the table.
  By unanimous consent, the title was amended so as to read: ``A bill to 
authorize basic research, development, and demonstration on hydrogen as 
a fuel, and for other purposes.''.
  Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate in said 
bill.
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