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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3069 

To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to provide 

for the preservation and creation of jobs in the United States for projects 

receiving grants for specified energy property. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 3, 2010 

Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, Mr. CASEY, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr. TESTER, 

and Mr. SPECTER) introduced the following bill; which was read twice 

and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 

A BILL 

To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 

of 2009 to provide for the preservation and creation 

of jobs in the United States for projects receiving grants 

for specified energy property. 

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 ‘‘American Renewable 

5 Energy Jobs Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. MODIFICATIONS TO GRANTS FOR SPECIFIED EN2 ERGY PROPERTY IN LIEU OF TAX CREDITS. 

3 (a) DISCRETION TO PROVIDE GRANTS.—Subsection 

4 (a) of section 1603 of division B of the American Recovery 

5 and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is amended by striking 

6 ‘‘Upon application, the Secretary of the Treasury shall’’ 

7 and inserting ‘‘Upon application, the Secretary of the 

8 Treasury may’’. 

9 (b) PRESERVATION AND CREATION OF JOBS IN THE

10 UNITED STATES.—Section 1603 of division B of the 

11 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is 

12 amended by redesignating subsection (j) as subsection (l), 

13 and by inserting after subsection (i) the following new sub14 sections: 

15 ‘‘(j) BUY AMERICAN.—Any grants provided under 

16 this section shall be subject to the requirements of section 

17 1605 of division A without regard to whether the specified 

18 energy property involves a public building or public work. 

19 ‘‘(k) DOMESTIC JOB PRESERVATION AND CRE20 ATION.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall not make 

21 any payment of any grant under this section unless the 

22 Secretary— 

23 ‘‘(1) analyzes and takes into consideration do24 mestic job preservation and creation provided by a 

25 specified energy property, including domestic job 

26 preservation and creation related to— 


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1 ‘‘(A) production of equipment for the prop2 erty, 

3 ‘‘(B) installation of equipment for the 

4 property, and 

5 ‘‘(C) operation of the property, and 

6 ‘‘(2) submits a copy of the analysis carried out 

7 under paragraph (1) for the specified energy prop8 erty to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and 

9 the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of 

10 Representatives— 

11 ‘‘(A) not later than 30 days after the date 

12 of application for a grant, for applications filed 

13 after the date of enactment of the American 

14 Renewable Energy Jobs Act, or 

15 ‘‘(B) not later than 30 days after the date 

16 of enactment of such Act, for applications filed 

17 prior to the date of enactment of such Act.’’. 

18 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

19 this section shall apply to any grants for which full pay20 ment by the Secretary of the Treasury has not yet been 

21 made as of the date of the enactment of this Act. 

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