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107TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 2190

To reauthorize and revise the Renewable Energy Production Incentive

program, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JUNE 14, 2001

Ms. MCCARTHY of Missouri (for herself, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, and Mr.

BLUNT) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To reauthorize and revise the Renewable Energy Production

Incentive program, 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 ‘‘Renewable Energy

5 Production Incentive Reform Act’’.

6 SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

7 Section 1212 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42

8 U.S.C. 13317) is amended—

9 (1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘and which

10 satisfies’’ and all that follows through ‘‘Secretary
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1 shall establish.’’ and inserting ‘‘. The Secretary shall

2 establish other procedures necessary for efficient ad3 ministration of the program. The Secretary shall not

4 establish any criteria or procedures that have the ef5 fect of assigning to proposals a higher or lower pri6 ority for eligibility or allocation of appropriated

7 funds on the basis of the energy source proposed.’’;

8 (2) in subsection (b)—

9 (A) by striking ‘‘a State or any political’’

10 and all that follows through ‘‘nonprofit elec11 trical cooperative’’ and inserting ‘‘an electricity12 generating cooperative exempt from taxation

13 under section 501(c)(12) or section

14 1381(a)(2)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code of

15 1986, a public utility described in section 115

16 of such Code, a State, Commonwealth, terri17 tory, or possession of the United States or the

18 District of Columbia, or a political subdivision

19 thereof, or an Indian tribal government or sub20 division thereof,’’; and

21 (B) by inserting ‘‘landfill gas, incremental

22 hydropower,’’ after ‘‘wind, biomass,’’;

23 (3) in subsection (c) by striking ‘‘during the 10-

24 fiscal year period beginning with the first full fiscal
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1 year occurring after the enactment of this section’’

2 and inserting ‘‘before October 1, 2013’’;

3 (4) in subsection (d) by inserting ‘‘or in which

4 the Secretary finds that all necessary Federal and

5 State authorizations have been obtained to begin

6 construction of the facility’’ after ‘‘eligible for such

7 payments’’;

8 (5) in subsection (e)(1) by inserting ‘‘landfill

9 gas, incremental hydropower,’’ after ‘‘wind, bio10 mass,’’;

11 (6) by redesignating subsection (g) as sub12 section (h);

13 (7) by inserting after subsection (f) the fol14 lowing new subsection:

15 ‘‘(g) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘incre16 mental hydropower’ means additional generating capacity

17 achieved from increased efficiency or additions of new ca18 pacity at a hydroelectric facility.’’; and

19 (8) in subsection (h), as so redesignated by

20 paragraph (6) of this section—

21 (A) by striking ‘‘1993, 1994, and 1995’’

22 and inserting ‘‘2003 through 2023’’; and

23 (B) by inserting ‘‘Funds may be appro24 priated pursuant to this subsection to remain
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1 available until expended.’’ after ‘‘purposes of

2 this section.’’.

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