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109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5301 

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

of Federal support for local governments and school districts that establish comprehensive clean energy plans. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 4, 2006 

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

on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by 

the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To provide for the establishment by the Secretary of Energy 

of a program of Federal support for local governments 

and school districts that establish comprehensive clean 

energy plans. 

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 ‘‘Clean Energy Partner5 ship Act of 2006’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Energy shall es3 tablish a program to provide to local governments and 

4 school districts that establish comprehensive clean energy 

5 plans grants in an amount up to 20 percent of the costs 

6 of implementing clean energy projects funded by the com7 prehensive clean energy plans. 

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

9 program established under subsection (a), the Secretary 

10 shall give preference to local governments and school dis11 tricts that will be engaging in the full range of clean en12 ergy projects, and to those who can demonstrate a prior 

13 commitment to environmental conservation. 

14 SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

15 There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec16 retary of Energy $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 

17 2007 through 2011 to carry out this Act. 

18 SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 

19 For purposes of this Act— 

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

21 means methanol, denatured ethanol, and other alco22 hols; mixtures containing 85 percent or more by vol23 ume of methanol, denatured ethanol, and other alco24 hols with gasoline or other fuels; natural gas; 

25 liquified petroleum gas; hydrogen; coal-derived liquid 

26 fuels; fuels (other than alcohol) derived from biologiVerDate Aug 31 2005 18:18 May 07, 2006 Jkt 049200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H5301.IH H5301

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1 cal materials (including neat biodiesel); and elec2 tricity (including electricity from solar energy); 

3 (2) the term ‘‘comprehensive clean energy plan’’ 

4 means a project-specific plan by a town, munici5 pality, or local government agency, or a school dis6 trict, to adopt cleaner or more efficient energy tech7 nologies in their buildings and vehicle fleets; 

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

9 (A) an energy conservation measure; 

10 (B) a project to update or convert munic11 ipal or school buildings to generate power from 

12 a renewable energy source; 

13 (C) a project to replace vehicles owned by 

14 the local government or school district with hy15 brid vehicles or vehicles that run on alternative 

16 transportation fuel; and 

17 (D) a clean energy infrastructure project; 

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

19 means a measure that is applied to an existing mu20 nicipal or school building that improves energy effi21 ciency and is life cycle cost effective and that in22 volves energy conservation, cogeneration facilities, 

23 renewable energy sources, improvements in operation 

24 and maintenance efficiencies, or retrofit activities; 

25 and 


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

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

3 biomass, except for— 

4 (A) heat from the burning of municipal 

5 solid waste; or 

6 (B) heat from a dry steam geothermal res7 ervoir which— 

8 (i) has no mobile liquid in its natural 

9 state; 

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

11 percent water vapor; and 

12 (iii) has an enthalpy for the total pro13 duced fluid greater than or equal to 2.791 

14 megajoules per kilogram (1200 British 

15 thermal units per pound). 

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