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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6553 

To direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a pilot program to award 

grants and loan guarantees to hospitals to carry out projects for the 

purpose of reducing energy costs and increasing resilience to improve 

security. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 17, 2010 

Mr. ENGEL (for himself and Mr. BARTLETT) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in 

addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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 direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a pilot program to award grants and loan guarantees to hospitals 

to carry out projects for the purpose of reducing energy 

costs and increasing resilience to improve security. 

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 ‘‘Hospital Energy Con5 servation Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. ENERGY CONSERVATION GRANT AND LOAN GUAR2 ANTEE PILOT PROGRAM. 

3 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Energy 

4 shall establish a pilot program to award grants and loan 

5 guarantees to hospitals to carry out energy conservation 

6 projects for the purpose of— 

7 (1) significantly improving the energy efficiency 

8 of such hospitals; and 

9 (2) encouraging onsite power generation and 

10 energy storage, capable of operating independent of 

11 the grid, and providing sufficient onsite emergency 

12 backup power for essential hospital functions. 

13 (b) NUMBER OF HOSPITALS.—The Secretary shall 

14 award grants and loan guarantees under the pilot program 

15 to no more than 6 hospitals during the period described 

16 in subsection (f). 

17 (c) APPLICATIONS.—A hospital seeking a grant or 

18 loan guarantee under the pilot program shall submit an 

19 application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, 

20 and accompanied by such information as the Secretary 

21 may require. 

22 (d) CONSIDERATIONS.—In selecting a hospital to 

23 award a grant or loan guarantee to under the pilot pro24 gram, the Secretary shall give special consideration to ap25 plications from such hospitals that can demonstrate that 


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1 they are able to commence an energy conservation project 

2 more promptly. 

3 (e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms ‘‘hos4 pital’’ and ‘‘energy conservation project’’ have the mean5 ings given such terms in section 391 of the Energy Policy 

6 and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6371). 

7 (f) RECISSION; SOURCE OF FUNDING.—Of the unob8 ligated balances of the discretionary appropriations made 

9 available by division A of the American Recovery and Re10 investment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–5), there are re11 scinded and made available $90,000,000 to carry out the 

12 pilot program, which shall be committed during fiscal 

13 years 2011 and 2012. 

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