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(1) to the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency $100,000,000 for each fiscal 
year; and 
(2) to the Secretary of Energy $12,000,000 for 
each fiscal year. 
SEC. 203. RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION CREDIT. 
(a) EXTENSION.—Section 45(d) of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 (relating to qualified facilities) is 
amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘January 1, 2009’’ each place 
it appears in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (5), (6), and 
(7) and inserting ‘‘January 1, 2014’’, and 
(2) by striking ‘‘January 1, 2009 (January 1, 
2006, in the case of a facility using solar energy)’’ 
in paragraph (4) and inserting ‘‘January 1, 2014 
(January 1, 2012, in the case of a facility using 
solar energy)’’. 
(b) EXTENSION OF CREDIT FOR RESIDENTIAL EN-
ERGY EFFICIENT PROPERTY.—Subsection (g) of section 
25D of such Code (relating to termination) is amended 
by striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and inserting ‘‘Decem-
ber 31, 2014’’. 
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SEC. 204. EFFICIENCY RESOURCE STANDARD. 
(a) AMENDMENT.—Title VII of the Public Utility 
Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 is amended by adding the 
following new section at the end thereof: 
‘‘SEC. 610. EFFICIENCY RESOURCE STANDARD FOR RETAIL 
ELECTRICITY AND NATURAL GAS SUPPLIERS. 
‘‘(a) RESOURCE STANDARD.—Each retail electricity 
and natural gas supplier shall undertake energy savings 
measures in each calendar year from 2007 through 2011 
and thereafter that produce electricity demand savings 
and electricity and natural gas usage savings, as a per-
centage of the supplier’s base amount as shown in the fol-
lowing table. These targets represent savings realized from 
measures installed in the current year, plus cumulative 
savings realized from measures installed in all previous 
years. Each retail electricity and natural gas supplier sub-
ject to this subsection may use any electricity or natural 
gas savings measures available to it to achieve compliance 
with the performance standard established under this sec-
tion, so long as the electricity and natural gas savings 
achieved by such measures can be calculated and verified 
pursuant to the rules promulgated under subsection (b). 
Year 
Reductions in peak 
electricity demand 
Reductions in 
electricity 
and natural 
gas usage 
2007 .......................................................
0.25% ...............................
0.25% 
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Year 
Reductions in peak 
electricity demand 
Reductions in 
electricity 
and natural 
gas usage 
2008 .......................................................
0.75% ...............................
0.75% 
2009 .......................................................
1.75% ...............................
1.5% 
2010 .......................................................
2.75% ...............................
2.25% 
2011 and thereafter ...............................
3.75% ...............................
3.0% 
‘‘(b) DETERMINATION OF COMPLIANCE.—The Sec-
retary shall promulgate rules not later than one year after 
the enactment of this section regarding the means to be 
used to calculate and verify compliance with the perform-
ance standard established under subsection (a). Each re-
tail electric and natural gas supplier subject to this section 
shall calculate its compliance with such standard in ac-
cordance with such rules. The rules shall include each of 
the following: 
‘‘(1) Procedures and standards for defining and 
measuring electricity savings achieved or obtained by 
electricity and natural gas suppliers (hereinafter in 
this section referred to as ‘electricity and natural 
gas savings’) from customer facility end-uses that 
occur in a calendar year from all measures in place 
in that year (including measures implemented in 
previous years that produce electricity and natural 
gas savings in such calendar year). 
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‘‘(2) Procedures and standards for verification 
of electricity and natural gas savings reported by the 
retail electricity and natural gas supplier. 
‘‘(3) Requirements for the contents and format 
of a bi-annual report from each retail electricity and 
natural gas supplier demonstrating its compliance 
with the requirements of subsection (a). The bi-an-
nual report must include sufficient detail regarding 
the calculation of electricity and natural gas savings 
to enable the regulatory authority to verify and en-
force compliance with the requirements of this sec-
tion and the regulations under this section. 
‘‘(c) CREDIT AND TRADING SYSTEM.—(1) After con-
sultation with the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, the Secretary shall promulgate rules 
establishing a nationwide credit and credit trading system 
for electricity and natural gas savings. Under such rules 
the Secretary may certify as credits electricity or natural 
savings achieved by a retail electricity or natural gas sup-
plier in a given year in excess of the quantity of electricity 
or natural gas savings required that calendar year for such 
supplier to meet the resource standard, as long as such 
savings comply with the rules established under subsection 
(b). The Secretary shall also certify as credits customer 
energy savings created by retail electric or natural gas 
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suppliers or other entities, as long as such savings comply 
with the rules established under subsection (b). An elec-
tricity savings credit shall equal one kilowatt hour; a nat-
ural gas savings credit shall constitute one therm. 
‘‘(2) The Secretary shall not award credits to any re-
tail electricity or natural gas supplier subject to State ad-
ministration and enforcement under subsection (d) unless 
the Secretary has determined that such administration 
and enforcement are at least equivalent to administration 
and enforcement by the Secretary. 
‘‘(3) An electricity or natural gas savings credit is 
not a property right. Nothing in this or any other provi-
sion of law shall be construed to limit the authority of 
the United States to terminate or limit such credits. 
‘‘(4) A retail electric or natural gas supplier may sell 
such credit to any other entity, and other entities may sell 
such credits to retail electric or natural gas suppliers, in 
accordance with the accounting and verification rules es-
tablished by the Secretary. Such credit may be used by 
a purchasing retail electricity or natural gas supplier for 
purposes of complying with the resource standards set 
forth in subsection (a). 
‘‘(5) In order to receive an electricity or natural gas 
savings credit, the recipient of an electricity savings credit 
shall pay a fee, calculated by the Secretary, in an amount 
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112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6621 
AN ACT 
To correct and improve certain provisions of the Leahy- 
Smith America Invents Act and title 35, United States Code. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
HR 176 IH1S 
ular reports upon the request of such committees or their 
Members. 
SEC. 10. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated to the President to carry out this Act such sums 
as may be necessary for each of fiscal years from 2008 
through 2018. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that not less than $6,000,000 in additional funding 
above the amount that is otherwise authorized to be appro-
priated for educational exchange programs should be made 
available for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2018 to 
carry out this Act, as follows: 
(1) $4,000,000 for the Shirley Chisholm United 
States-Caribbean Educational Exchange Program 
administered by the Department of State under sec-
tion 6; and 
(2) $2,000,000 for Caribbean educational devel-
opment programs administered by the United States 
Agency for International Development under section 
7. 
Æ 
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Union Calendar No. 182
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 457
[Report No. 103–331]
A BILL
To provide for the conveyance of lands to certain
individuals in Butte County, California.
NOVEMBER 8, 1993
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Commit-
tee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and
ordered to be printed
‘‘(1) The term ‘retail electricity or natural sup-
plier’ means a person that sells electric energy or 
natural gas to consumers and sold not less than 
1,000,000 megawatt-hours of electric energy or 
20,000,000 therms of natural gas to consumers for 
purposes other than resale during the preceding cal-
endar year; except that such term does not include 
the United States, a State or any political subdivi-
sion of a State, or any agency, authority, or instru-
mentality of any one or more of the foregoing, or a 
rural electric cooperative. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘retail electricity or natural gas 
supplier’s base amount’ means the total amount of 
electric energy or natural gas sold by the retail elec-
tricity or natural gas supplier to customers during 
the most recent calendar year for which information 
is available. 
‘‘(3) The term ‘electricity savings’ means reduc-
tions in end-use electricity consumption in customer 
facilities relative to consumption at those same fa-
cilities in a base year as defined in rules issued by 
the Secretary, or in the case of new facilities, rel-
ative to reference facilities defined in rules issued by 
the Secretary, or distributed generation efficiency 
measures, including fuel cells and combined heat 
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and power (CHP) technologies, that provide elec-
tricity only for onsite customer use. 
‘‘(4) The term ‘natural gas savings’ means re-
ductions in end-use natural gas consumption in cus-
tomer facilities relative to consumption at those 
same facilities in a base year as defined in rules 
issued by the Secretary, or in the case of new facili-
ties, relative to reference facilities defined in rules 
issued by the Secretary.’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
title VII of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 
1978 is amended by adding the following new item at the 
end thereof: 
‘‘Sec. 610. Efficiency resource standard for retail electricity and natural gas 
suppliers.’’. 
SEC. 205. FEDERAL RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARD. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title VI of the Public Utility Reg-
ulatory Policies Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 611. FEDERAL RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARD. 
‘‘(a) MINIMUM RENEWABLE GENERATION REQUIRE-
MENT.—For each calendar year beginning in calendar 
year 2009, each retail electric supplier shall submit to the 
Secretary, not later than April 1 of the following calendar 
year, renewable energy credits in an amount equal to the 
required annual percentage specified in subsection (b). 
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Calendar No. 654
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 457
AN ACT
To provide for the conveyance of lands to certain
individuals in Butte County, California.
SEPTEMBER 27 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 12), 1994
Reported without amendment
‘‘(b) REQUIRED ANNUAL PERCENTAGE.—For cal-
endar years after 2008, the required annual percentage 
of the retail electric supplier’s base amount that shall be 
generated from renewable energy resources, or otherwise 
credited towards such percentage requirement pursuant to 
subsection (c), shall be the percentage specified in the fol-
lowing table: 
Required annual 
‘‘Calendar Years 
percentage 
2009 through 2010 ..............................................................
2010 through 2011 ..............................................................
2011 through 2012 ..............................................................
2012 through 2013 ..............................................................
2013 through 2015 ..............................................................
2015 through 2016 ..............................................................
2016 through 2017 ..............................................................
2017 through 2018 ..............................................................
2018 through 2019 ..............................................................
2019 through 2020 ..............................................................
2020 and thereafter .............................................................
20. 
‘‘(c) SUBMISSION OF CREDITS.—(1) A retail electric 
supplier may satisfy the requirements of subsection (a) 
through the submission of renewable energy credits— 
‘‘(A) issued to the retail electric supplier under 
subsection (d); 
‘‘(B) obtained by purchase or exchange under 
subsection (e); or 
‘‘(C) borrowed under subsection (f). 
‘‘(2) A renewable energy credit may be counted to-
ward compliance with subsection (a) only once. 
‘‘(d) ISSUANCE
OF CREDITS.—(1) The Secretary 
shall establish by rule, not later than 1 year after the date 
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of enactment of this section, a program to issue and mon-
itor the sale or exchange of, and track, renewable energy 
credits. 
‘‘(2) Under the program established by the Secretary, 
an entity that generates electric energy through the use 
of a renewable energy resource may apply to the Secretary 
for the issuance of renewable energy credits. The applica-
tion shall indicate— 
‘‘(A) the type of renewable energy resource used 
to produce the electricity; 
‘‘(B) the location where the electric energy was 
produced; and 
‘‘(C) any other information the Secretary deter-
mines appropriate. 
‘‘(3)(A) Except as provided in subparagraphs (B), 
(C), and (D), the Secretary shall issue to each entity that 
generates electric energy one renewable energy credit for 
each kilowatt hour of electric energy the entity generates 
from the date of enactment of this section and in each 
subsequent calendar year through the use of a renewable 
energy resource at an eligible facility. 
‘‘(B) For incremental hydropower the renewable en-
ergy credits shall be calculated based on the expected in-
crease in average annual generation resulting from the ef-
ficiency improvements or capacity additions. The number 
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of credits shall be calculated using the same water flow 
information used to determine a historic average annual 
generation baseline for the hydroelectric facility and cer-
tified by the Secretary or the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission. The calculation of the renewable energy cred-
its for incremental hydropower shall not be based on any 
operational changes at the hydroelectric facility not di-
rectly associated with the efficiency improvements or ca-
pacity additions. 
‘‘(C) The Secretary shall issue two renewable energy 
credits for each kilowatt hour of electric energy generated 
and supplied to the grid in that calendar year through the 
use of a renewable energy resource at an eligible facility 
located on Indian land. For purposes of this paragraph, 
renewable energy generated by biomass cofired with other 
fuels is eligible for two credits only if the biomass was 
grown on such land. 
‘‘(D) For electric energy resources produced from a 
generation offset, the Secretary shall issue two renewable 
energy credits for each kilowatt hour generated. 
‘‘(E) To be eligible for a renewable energy credit, the 
unit of electric energy generated through the use of a re-
newable energy resource may be sold or may be used by 
the generator. If both a renewable energy resource and 
a non-renewable energy resource are used to generate the 
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electric energy, the Secretary shall issue renewable energy 
credits based on the proportion of the renewable energy 
resources used. The Secretary shall identify renewable en-
ergy credits by type and date of generation. 
‘‘(4) When a generator sells electric energy generated 
through the use of a renewable energy resource to a retail 
electric supplier under a contract subject to section 210 
of this Act, the retail electric supplier is treated as the 
generator of the electric energy for the purposes of this 
section or the duration of the contract. 
‘‘(5) The Secretary shall issue renewable energy cred-
its for existing facility offsets to be applied against a retail 
electric supplier’s required annual percentage. Such cred-
its are not tradeable and may be used only in the calendar 
year generation actually occurs. 
‘‘(e) CREDIT TRADING.—A renewable energy credit, 
may be sold or exchanged by the entity to whom issued 
or by any other entity who acquires the renewable energy 
credit. A renewable energy credit for any year that is not 
used to satisfy the minimum renewable generation require-
ment of subsection (a) for that year may be carried for-
ward for use within the next 4 years. 
‘‘(f) CREDIT BORROWING.—At any time before the 
end of calendar year 2009, a retail electric supplier that 
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respect to material removed from National Forest 
System lands the term includes only organic mate-
rial from— 
‘‘(A) thinnings from trees that are less 
than 12 inches in diameter; 
‘‘(B) slash; 
‘‘(C) brush; and 
‘‘(D) mill residues. 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE
FACILITY.—The term ‘eligible 
facility’ means— 
‘‘(A) a facility for the generation of electric 
energy from a renewable energy resource that is 
placed in service on or after the date of enact-
ment of this section; or 
‘‘(B) a repowering or cofiring increment 
that is placed in service on or after the date of 
enactment of this section at a facility for the 
generation of electric energy from a renewable 
energy resource that was placed in service be-
fore that date. 
‘‘(3) 
ELIGIBLE
RENEWABLE
ENERGY
RE-
SOURCE.—The term ‘renewable energy resource’ 
means solar, wind, ocean, or geothermal energy, bio-
mass (excluding solid waste and paper that is com-
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monly recycled), landfill gas, a generation offset, or 
incremental hydropower. 
‘‘(4) GENERATION OFFSET.—The term ‘genera-
tion offset’ means reduced electricity usage metered 
at a site where a customer consumes energy from a 
renewable energy technology. 
‘‘(5) EXISTING FACILITY OFFSET.—The term 
‘existing facility offset’ means renewable energy gen-
erated from an existing facility, not classified as an 
eligible facility, that is owned or under contract, di-
rectly or indirectly, to a retail electric supplier on 
the date of enactment of this section. 
‘‘(6) INCREMENTAL HYDROPOWER.—The term 
‘incremental hydropower’ means additional genera-
tion that is achieved from increased efficiency or ad-
ditions of capacity on or after the date of enactment 
of this section or the effective date of the applicable 
State renewable portfolio standard program, at a hy-
droelectric facility that was placed in service before 
that date. 
‘‘(7) INDIAN
LAND.—The term ‘Indian land’ 
means— 
‘‘(A) any land within the limits of any In-
dian reservation, pueblo, or rancheria; 
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which it is formally called into session without regard to 
whether legislation was considered on such day.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by sub-
section (a) shall apply to taxable years beginning after De-
cember 31, 2007. 
Subtitle B—Extenders Primarily 
Affecting Businesses 
SEC. 321. RESEARCH CREDIT. 
(a) IN
GENERAL.—Subparagraph (B) of section 
41(h)(1) (relating to termination) is amended by striking 
‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2008’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subparagraph (D) of 
section 45C(b)(1) (relating to qualified clinical testing ex-
penses) is amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and 
inserting ‘‘December 31, 2008’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this 
section shall apply to amounts paid or incurred after De-
cember 31, 2007. 
SEC. 322. INDIAN EMPLOYMENT CREDIT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (f) of section 45A (relat-
ing to termination) is amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 
2007’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2008’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by this 
section shall apply to taxable years beginning after Decem-
ber 31, 2007. 
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(b) PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.— 
(1) MEETINGS.—The advisory group shall— 
(A) ensure that each meeting of the advi-
sory group is open to the public; and 
(B) provide, at each meeting, an oppor-
tunity for interested persons to present oral or 
written statements concerning items on the 
agenda. 
(2) NOTICE.—The Secretary shall provide to 
the public timely notice of each meeting of the advi-
sory group. 
(3) MINUTES.—Minutes of each meeting of the 
advisory group shall be kept by the Secretary and 
shall be made available to the public. 
(c) EXEMPTION FROM FEDERAL ADVISORY COM-
MITTEE ACT.—The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 
U.S.C. App.) shall not apply to the advisory group.
SEC. 7. FUNDING. 
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Fund 
$5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 through 2013, 
to remain available until expended. 
Passed the House of Representatives May 21, 2008. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1771 
AN ACT 
To assist in the conservation of cranes by sup-
porting and providing, through projects of per-
sons and organizations with expertise in crane 
conservation, financial resources for the con-
servation programs of countries the activities of 
which directly or indirectly affect cranes and the 
ecosystems of cranes.