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109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4990 

To provide for the establishment by the Secretary of Energy of a program 

of Federal support for local governments that establish Clean Energy 

Bond Acts. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 16, 2006 

Mr. ISRAEL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To provide for the establishment by the Secretary of Energy 

of a program of Federal support for local governments 

that establish Clean Energy Bond Acts. 

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 ‘‘Local Clean Energy 

5 Initiative Act of 2006’’. 

6 SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Energy shall es8 tablish a program to provide to local governments that es9 tablish a Clean Energy Bond Act grants in an amount 


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1 up to 20 percent of the costs of implementing clean energy 

2 projects funded by the Clean Energy Bond Act. 

3 (b) PREFERENCE.—In awarding grants under the 

4 program established under subsection (a), the Secretary 

5 shall give preference to local governments that will be en6 gaging in the full range of clean energy projects, and to 

7 those who can demonstrate a prior commitment to envi8 ronmental conservation. 

9 SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

10 There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec11 retary of Energy $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 

12 2007 through 2011 to carry out this Act. 

13 SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 

14 For purposes of this Act— 

15 (1) the term ‘‘alternative transportation fuel’’ 

16 means methanol, denatured ethanol, and other alco17 hols; mixtures containing 85 percent or more by vol18 ume of methanol, denatured ethanol, and other alco19 hols with gasoline or other fuels; natural gas; 

20 liquified petroleum gas; hydrogen; coal-derived liquid 

21 fuels; fuels (other than alcohol) derived from biologi22 cal materials (including neat biodiesel); and elec23 tricity (including electricity from solar energy); 

24 (2) the term ‘‘Clean Energy Bond Act’’ means 

25 a statute authorizing a local government to issue 


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1 bonds for the purpose of funding clean energy 

2 projects; 

3 (3) the term ‘‘clean energy project’’ means— 

4 (A) an energy conservation measure; 

5 (B) a project to update or convert munic6 ipal buildings to generate power from a renew7 able energy source; and 

8 (C) a project to replace automobiles owned 

9 by the local government with hybrid vehicles or 

10 vehicles that run on alternative transportation 

11 fuel; 

12 (4) the term ‘‘energy conservation measure’’ 

13 means a measure that is applied to an existing mu14 nicipal building that improves energy efficiency and 

15 is life cycle cost effective and that involves energy 

16 conservation, cogeneration facilities, renewable en17 ergy sources, improvements in operation and mainte18 nance efficiencies, or retrofit activities; and 

19 (5) the term ‘‘renewable energy source’’ means 

20 solar heat, solar light, wind, geothermal energy, and 

21 biomass, except for— 

22 (A) heat from the burning of municipal 

23 solid waste; or 

24 (B) heat from a dry steam geothermal res25 ervoir which— 


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1 (i) has no mobile liquid in its natural 

2 state; 

3 (ii) is a fluid composed of at least 95 

4 percent water vapor; and 

5 (iii) has an enthalpy for the total pro6 duced fluid greater than or equal to 2.791 

7 megajoules per kilogram (1200 British 

8 thermal units per pound). 

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