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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4909 
To accelerate research, development, demonstration, and deployment of 
hydrogen from clean energy sources, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 3, 2021 
Mr. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. FITZPATRICK, and 
Mr. LAMB) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To accelerate research, development, demonstration, and de-
ployment of hydrogen from clean energy sources, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clean Hydrogen En-
ergy Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— 
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(1) hydrogen plays a critical part in the com-
prehensive energy portfolio of the United States; 
(2) the use of the hydrogen resources of the 
United States— 
(A) promotes energy security and resil-
ience; and 
(B) provides economic value and environ-
mental benefits for diverse applications across 
multiple sectors of the economy; and 
(3) hydrogen can be produced from a variety of 
domestically available clean energy sources, includ-
ing— 
(A) renewable energy resources, including 
biomass; 
(B) fossil fuels with carbon capture, utili-
zation, and storage; and 
(C) nuclear power. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to accel-
erate research, development, demonstration, and deploy-
ment of hydrogen from clean energy sources by— 
(1) providing a statutory definition for the term 
‘‘clean hydrogen’’; 
(2) establishing a clean hydrogen strategy and 
roadmap for the United States; 
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(3) establishing a clearing house for clean hy-
drogen program information at the National Energy 
Technology Laboratory; 
(4) developing a robust clean hydrogen supply 
chain and workforce by prioritizing clean hydrogen 
demonstration projects in major shale gas regions; 
(5) establishing regional clean hydrogen hubs; 
and 
(6) authorizing appropriations to carry out the 
Department of Energy Hydrogen Program Plan, 
dated November 2020, developed pursuant to title 
VIII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 
16151 et seq.). 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 803 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 
U.S.C. 16152) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (5), by striking the paragraph 
designation and heading and all that follows through 
‘‘when’’ in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(5) PORTABLE; STORAGE.—The terms ‘port-
able’ and ‘storage’, when’’; 
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through 
(7) as paragraphs (2) through (8), respectively; and 
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(3) by inserting before paragraph (2) (as so re-
designated) the following: 
‘‘(1) CLEAN
HYDROGEN; 
HYDROGEN.—The 
terms ‘clean hydrogen’ and ‘hydrogen’ mean hydro-
gen produced in compliance with the greenhouse gas 
emissions standard established under section 822(a), 
including production from any fuel source.’’. 
SEC. 4. CLEAN HYDROGEN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 805 of the Energy Policy 
Act of 2005 (42 U.S. 16154) is amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘PRO-
GRAMS’’ and inserting ‘‘CLEAN HYDROGEN RE-
SEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘research and development 
program’’ and inserting ‘‘crosscutting research 
and development program (referred to in this 
section as the ‘program’)’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘processing,’’ after ‘‘pro-
duction,’’; 
(3) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(b) GOALS.—The goals of the program shall be— 
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‘‘(1) to advance research and development to 
demonstrate and commercialize the use of clean hy-
drogen in the transportation, utility, industrial, com-
mercial, and residential sectors; and 
‘‘(2) to demonstrate a standard of clean hydro-
gen production in the transportation, utility, indus-
trial, commercial, and residential sectors by 2040.’’; 
(4) in subsection (c)(3), by striking ‘‘renewable 
fuels and biofuels’’ and inserting ‘‘fossil fuels with 
carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration, re-
newable fuels, biofuels, and nuclear energy’’; 
(5) by striking subsection (e) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(e) ACTIVITIES.—In carrying out the program, the 
Secretary, in partnership with the private sector, shall 
conduct activities to advance and support— 
‘‘(1) the establishment of a series of technology 
cost goals oriented toward achieving the standard of 
clean hydrogen production developed under section 
822(a); 
‘‘(2) the production of clean hydrogen from di-
verse energy sources, including— 
‘‘(A) fossil fuels with carbon capture, utili-
zation, and sequestration; 
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‘‘(B) hydrogen-carrier fuels (including eth-
anol and methanol); 
‘‘(C) renewable energy resources, including 
biomass; 
‘‘(D) nuclear energy; and 
‘‘(E) any other methods the Secretary de-
termines to be appropriate; 
‘‘(3) the use of clean hydrogen for commercial, 
industrial, and residential electric power generation; 
‘‘(4) the use of clean hydrogen in industrial ap-
plications, including steelmaking, cement, chemical 
feedstocks, and process heat; 
‘‘(5) the use of clean hydrogen for use as a fuel 
source for both residential and commercial comfort 
heating and hot water requirements; 
‘‘(6) the safe and efficient delivery of hydrogen 
or hydrogen-carrier fuels, including— 
‘‘(A) transmission by pipelines, including 
retrofitting the existing natural gas transpor-
tation infrastructure system to enable a transi-
tion to transport and deliver increasing levels of 
clean hydrogen, clean hydrogen blends, or clean 
hydrogen carriers; 
‘‘(B) tanks and other distribution methods; 
and 
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‘‘(C) convenient and economic refueling of 
vehicles, locomotives, maritime vessels, or 
planes— 
‘‘(i) at central refueling stations; or 
‘‘(ii) through distributed onsite gen-
eration; 
‘‘(7) advanced vehicle, locomotive, maritime ves-
sel, or plane technologies, including— 
‘‘(A) engine and emission control systems; 
‘‘(B) energy storage, electric propulsion, 
and hybrid systems; 
‘‘(C) automotive, locomotive, maritime ves-
sel, or plane materials; and 
‘‘(D) other advanced vehicle, locomotive, 
maritime vessel, or plane technologies; 
‘‘(8) storage of hydrogen or hydrogen-carrier 
fuels, including the development of materials for safe 
and economic storage in gaseous, liquid, or solid 
form; 
‘‘(9) the development of safe, durable, afford-
able, and efficient fuel cells, including fuel-flexible 
fuel cell power systems, improved manufacturing 
processes, high-temperature membranes, cost-effec-
tive fuel processing for natural gas, fuel cell stack 
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the purpose of the program described in subsection 
(b). 
‘‘(3) ELIGIBILITY; APPLICATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The eligibility of an 
entity to receive a grant under paragraph (1), 
to enter into a contract or cooperative agree-
ment under paragraph (2), or to receive fund-
ing for a demonstration project under sub-
section (d) shall be determined by the Sec-
retary. 
‘‘(B) APPLICATIONS.—An eligible entity 
desiring to receive a grant under paragraph (1), 
to enter into a contract or cooperative agree-
ment under paragraph (2), or to receive fund-
ing for a demonstration project under sub-
section (d) shall submit to the Secretary an ap-
plication at such time, in such manner, and 
containing such information as the Secretary 
may require. 
‘‘(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry 
out the program $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal 
years 2022 through 2026, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
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