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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3606 
To establish the National Institutes of Clean Energy. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 28, 2021 
Mr. LEVIN of Michigan (for himself, Mr. HUFFMAN, and Mr. BRENDAN F. 
BOYLE of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 
A BILL 
To establish the National Institutes of Clean Energy. 
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 ‘‘National Institutes of 
Clean Energy Act of 2021’’. 
SEC. 2. NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF CLEAN ENERGY. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ADVANCED
ENERGY
TECHNOLOGY.—The 
term ‘‘advanced energy technology’’ means a tech-
nology that— 
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(A) reduces greenhouse gas emissions with 
high conversion efficiency; 
(B) minimizes energy, water, and material 
resource use; 
(C) was produced by or helps generate a 
renewable energy source; and 
(D) minimizes environmental harms to or 
negative public health impacts on frontline, vul-
nerable, and disadvantaged communities. 
(2) FRONTLINE, VULNERABLE, AND DISADVAN-
TAGED COMMUNITY.—The term ‘‘frontline, vulner-
able, and disadvantaged community’’ means a com-
munity— 
(A) in an area described in section 301(a) 
of the Public Works and Economic Develop-
ment Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3161(a)); and 
(B) in which climate change, pollution, or 
environmental destruction have exacerbated sys-
temic racial, regional, social, environmental, 
gender, and economic injustices by dispropor-
tionately affecting Black, Brown, and Indige-
nous peoples, other communities of color, mi-
grant communities, deindustrialized commu-
nities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, 
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low-income workers, women, the elderly, the 
unhoused, people with disabilities, or youth. 
(3) INSTITUTES.—The term ‘‘Institutes’’ means 
the National Institutes of Clean Energy established 
under subsection (b). 
(4) LAND-GRANT COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY.— 
The term ‘‘land-grant college or university’’ means— 
(A) an institution that is eligible to receive 
funds under the Act of July 2, 1862 (commonly 
known as the ‘‘First Morrill Act’’) (12 Stat. 
503, chapter 130; 7 U.S.C. 301 et seq.), or the 
Act of August 30, 1890 (commonly known as 
the ‘‘Second Morrill Act’’) (26 Stat. 417, chap-
ter 841; 7 U.S.C. 321 et seq.), including 
Tuskegee University; and 
(B) a 1994 Institution (as defined in sec-
tion 532 of the Equity in Educational Land- 
Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 301 note; 
Public Law 103–382)). 
(5) 
MINORITY-SERVING
INSTITUTION.—The 
term ‘‘minority-serving institution’’ means an insti-
tution of higher education described in section 
371(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1067q(a)). 
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(6) RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE.—The term 
‘‘renewable energy source’’ means energy generated 
from a renewable source, including the following re-
newable energy sources: 
(A) Solar, including electricity. 
(B) Wind. 
(C) Ocean, including tidal, wave, current, 
and thermal. 
(D) Geothermal, including electricity and 
heat pumps. 
(E) 
Hydroelectric 
generation 
capacity 
achieved from increased efficiency or additions 
of new capacity at an existing hydroelectric 
project that was placed in service on or after 
January 1, 1999. 
(F) Hydrogen derived from a renewable 
energy source. 
(G) Thermal energy generated by any of 
the sources described in subparagraphs (A) 
through (F). 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than January 1, 
2025, there shall be established the National Institutes of 
Clean Energy, which shall be an agency of the Department 
of Energy. 
(c) ACTIVITIES.— 
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